Editor: Terry Johnston

Email: pnayp@ozemail.com.au

Freelance editor since 1996. In-house editor for three universities (CSU, Deakin & Macquarie), TafeNSW (OTEN) and an employers’ federation (MATFA). Can write reports, training materials and marketing collateral. Lectured at three universities, five TAFEs and six business colleges. Family histories specialist.

Services

Copy editing; structural editing; technical editing; proofreading
Manuscript assessment and development; project management; plain English writing and rewriting; copywriting (advertising/PR); marketing advice; training; indexing

Subject matter experience

Fiction (novels/poetry): Adventure, crime, science fantasy, romantic, spiritual, comic. Non-fiction: Government policy, marketing, small business operations, financial services and economics, psycholo

Genre and platform

General and annual reports; research papers; university open learning course materials; VET training materials; textbooks; newsletters; academic journals; commercial magazines; sports newspapers; print advertisements (two agencies); IPO documents, conference papers. Tenders.

Specific projects

Alfred Saunders: A Full Life (Diana Saunders—ghost wrote as well as edited); Another Rule Broken (Dorothy Hayes); Hotel Harewood: Muddling Through in Royal Tunbridge Wells (John Hickman—creative non-fiction says author); Managing the Crap: A Survival Guide for Aspiring Middle Managers ( C C Kelly); The Big Dipper: Life on the Rollercoaster (Robert DiPierdomenico); Old Rex: The Digger with Attitude (David Norman); Cricket’s Great All-Rounders (Kershi Meher-Homji); Abiding the Laws of Laurgarin (Belinda Coleman); Featherston Chairs (Geoff Issacs); The Sex Addict (Susan Prior); The Truth, It Lies (Eoin Hennigan); The Rugby World Cup Diaries: A Referee’s Inside View (Stuart Dickinson).

Qualifications

BA (USyd) (Government/Fine Arts); Grad Dip Editing & Publishing (RMIT); MA in Media, Technology and the Law (MacqU); Advertising Certificate awarded in Credit grade (SIT); Certificate IVs in Assessment & Workplace Training (ACT) and Small Business Management (SCM)