Roberta Ivers Email & Phone Number

Australia

In this fast-paced management role, I led the publishing team in acquisition and best practice curation, editorial and production of high volume, original literacy focused children’s books, managed departmental budgets and forecasts, negotiated for third party content rights for publication and distribution, and developed robust systems for global scaling.

Sydney, Australia

I provide publishing and editorial services to the Australian trade book publishing industry, offering developmental and structural advice across adult fiction and non-fiction. I'm also a seasoned sessional academic for the Masters of Publishing Program at the University of Sydney, teaching and mentoring new talent for the Australian publishing industry.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• In this Equity, Diversity, Inclusion role I worked with key stakeholders in UNSW Engineering and partners in secondary education agencies and industry to increase female enrolments and develop programs to support.
• Program winner of the 2020 Engineers Australia award for Outstanding Achievement in Encouraging Gender Diversity.
• 2020 WIE programming saw 2% growth in female enrolments at UNSW to 28% (2021), up from 26% (2019, 2020).

Sydney, Australia

• In this role I worked closely with all stakeholders across the company, and curated, managed, developed and produced my own list of fiction and nonfiction titles in print, ebook and audio editions, delivering highly.
• Publisher of bestselling, ABIA-shortlisted novelist Tania Blanchard, whose debut The Girl from Munich (2017) is S&S’s highest selling local fiction title ever; the sequel Suitcase of Dreams (2018) is S&S’s highest.
• In an unprecedented move for S&S, I acquired four novels from rising talent Lauren Chater, including her debut novel, the subsequently bestselling, critically acclaimed The Lace Weaver (2018), Gulliver's Wife (2020).
• Australian publisher of international bestseller and leader in diet and health Dr Michael Mosley and his multiple No. 1 bestsellers: The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet, The Clever Guts Diet, The Fast 800, the companion recipe.
• Publisher of critically acclaimed thriller author Sara Foster, growing her to bestseller status with The Hidden Hours (2017) and You Don’t Know Me (2019); both books now sold to US and UK for six-figure sum.
• Publisher of Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, whose The Book Ninja sold to multiple overseas territories and has been optioned for a film.

• In this fast-paced and deadline driven role, working directly with and reporting to the publishing director and with one direct report, I managed all editorial, and print, ebook and audiobook production of all titles.
• For a period of five months over 2016 and 2017 I worked closely with the MD as interim publishing director, curating, programming, commissioning and managing the entire local publishing list.
• Managed editorial and production of entire local Australian list, overseeing growth to triple its original size, from 12 titles in 2013 to more than 40 in 2018.
• Structurally edited flagship authors on the list such as Anna Romer, Aoife Clifford, Anita Heiss, Richard Beasley, Luke Devenish, Scott Bevan, Joel Creasey, Todd Alexander, Sue Smethurst, Mark Tedeschi.
• Identified and commissioned authors and titles for my own growing list, such as Ann Turner, Tania Blanchard, Lauren Chater, Rupert Guinness, Ranjana Srivastava, Grant Edwards, Steve and Gus Worland.

• As the company’s senior editor, my role was dedicated to editing and project managing premier authors on the local Australian list. I worked closely with all publishers to produce books of the highest quality, on.
• I worked closely with international celebrity Barry Humphries, Miles Franklin shortlisted and Dobbie Literary Award winning Favel Parrett, Walkley award-winner Jack Marx, and bestselling authors Kimberley Freeman and.

Ba (Hons), English And Australian Literature

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