Editor: Julie Stokes
Tel: (02) 4233 1566 Email: jfstokes@bigpond.net.au
BA (Syd); Dip Lib (NSW).
Services
- Editing—Manuscript assessment, substantive editing, copy-editing, proofreading, indexing
- Other services—Compilation of tables of cases and statutes for legal publications; verification of legal citations; library research.
- Subject fields—Arts, Asia/Pacific, bibliography, biography, cooking, drugs, gardening, history, humanities, law, librarianship, politics and government, social sciences, tourism, town planning.
- Media—Books (fiction and non-fiction), journals, reports, magazines, conference proceedings, exhibition catalogues, looseleaf publications, brochures.
Specific projects
Law of Securities (5th ed., 1993), Australian Bankruptcy Law (10th ed., 1994), Walter Burley Griffin: Landscape Architect (1995), A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose de Freycinet (1996), A Passion for Dance (1997), Backroom Briefings: John Curtin’s War (1997), The Vision of Edna Walling: Garden Plans (1998), Lavender: The Grower’s Guide (2000), Seeds of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden (2006), Trees of History & Romance (2009), Transforming Uncommon Ground: Gardens of Vladimir Sitta (2009), A Passion for Place: Gardens of the Blue Mountains (2010), Landscaping for Australia (2011), Love of a Laminex Table: A Sustainable Food Journey (2011), and novels White Butterflies (2002), Forever in Paradise (2003) and Unbroken Blue (2005), as well as over 20 research papers on drug treatment and policy.
Eleven years as an in-house editor, with six years in legal publishing; 12 years as a freelance editor. Familiarity with legal citations and referencing; and with botanical terms. Experienced book and magazine editor, and trained indexer.