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Gail is a senior professionally Accredited Editor (AE), book writing coach, and published author. She also has an MA in Linguistics and is a qualified journalist. Gail is a highly qualified and experienced book editor who ensures a quality outcome for your work. Gail’s book coaching programs include The Book Writing Academy – a 1:1 start-to-finish book writing program, and Writing to Heal: Metamorphosis – a holistic writing program designed to help participants process trauma, grief, or challenges through writing.
Whether you are a published author or you have just embarked on your first project, all writing can be improved by being closely examined and given constructive feedback from a professional editor. Mistakes can make the difference between a piece looking amateur or polished and professional. Queensland Writers Centre works with several editors at various career stages and will pair you to the best fit for your work. Your editor will assist in ensuring your writing is consistent and correct, and that its content, language, style and layout are both fit-fo…
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) offers mentorships to all published and unpublished writers and illustrators with a work-in-progress. Discounted rates for ASA members.
Mentorships are all about you and what you need to realise your project. Get one-on-one advice from a professional writer on writing goals, industry advice, craft, development, critique, or ongoing motivation in this longer form, in-depth review of your project.
Need clear, concrete suggestions for your project to take it to the next level? Have an experienced writer provide you with honest and supportive feedback on a sample of your work. Twenty pages and ninety minutes later, you’ll have gained personalised and professional advice to get you moving in the right direction. The Writer’s Surgery program connects you with experienced industry professionals for advice and feedback on your project.
Manuscript assessments give writers access to the objective opinions and analytical skills of literary professionals. We’ll pair your work with the best fit from our broad-ranging list of assessors to ensure you receive constructive, expert criticism from someone with expertise in your area. They’ll look at the overall structure, content and style of your work to give you a ‘big picture’ overview of its strengths and weaknesses, potential for improvements, and further suggestions. You may request an assessment focusing on a few specific areas, or simply…
Get yourself a one-on-one consult with a team member at Queensland Writers Centre and leave this thorough thirty-minute consultation with three solid recommendations tailored to your specific project to move your writing forward. Our writing consults are designed for writers at any stage, and this isn’t a critique – it’s a time for a judgement-free fresh perspective.
Provides graphic design services for document and book design, publishing services, presentation design, marketing design and branding services.
Kathryn is a dual national British/Australian citizen living in Melbourne. She is a qualified professional writer and editor who has been freelance fiction editing since 2014. She works across all genres with new and experienced writers and on a freelance basis for several small publishers. She’s passionate about story and teaching authors the craft of good storytelling.
AJC Publishing specialises in editing fiction and creative non-fiction manuscripts. They particularly work with indie authors, guiding them through the steps required to reach their book’s full potential. The editing team is managed by AJ Collins – author, IPEd accredited editor, Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT. AJ also manages a team over 30 professional beta readers. Both teams cover most genres, including: memoir, sci-fi, spec-fic, romance, historical, crime, thriller, mystery, paranormal, fantasy and literary fiction (adult…
I am a ghostwriter, podcaster and videographer who can help you bring your story to life via print, podcast or video. I recently studied at Bond University gaining a bachelors degree in journalism, so my skills are fresh and meet current market requirements. Through a consultative process, I can ascertain the best method to broadcast or share your story. You might want to share a yarn about your family, or a tale of trial and tribulation; perhaps you’ve been around the world and seen things people may not believe, which is perfect because I’d love to hel…
Looking to take your manuscript to the next level? As a qualified editor, I can provide practical, professional advice about how to develop your work to a publishable standard. My aim is to support you in achieving your vision for your book through encouragement and constructive feedback. I have experience editing both fiction and nonfiction, though I specialise in genre fiction (fantasy, sci-fi, crime, romance etc), children’s/YA fiction, and nonfiction books. My services include structural editing, copy editing and proofreading. Budget options are avai…
Proudly Australian-owned, assisting authors to self-publish their books since 2010. We offer a range of services including editing, typesetting/book formatting, cover design, ISBN registration, printing, ebooks, and global online distribution. Our authors retain all of their rights and earn 100% of their royalties.
We are Australia’s best publishing & promotional provider to Indie authors. We help writers become bestselling authors whilst building a strong brand… Our agency has been designed to provide everything (and more) you will ever need as an independent author to create the best product of your latest book and get it into the global marketplace for readers to buy. A niche model to the industry and one of the only hybrid publishing agencies that delivers you sales of your work through national and international distribution networks. We work with you on…
Green Olive Press is a boutique publishing house. Established in 2006, Green Olive Press traditionally publishes a small number of “Stories worth writing, writing worth reading” each year, primarily children’s books, literary fiction, poetry, nature and books about food. Green Olive Press also provides a range of publishing services to self-publishers, author publishers, not-for-profit organisations and businesses.
Average submission response time: 12 weeks.
Irina Dunn offers her services as a manuscript assessor and editor as well as an agent to promote writers’ manuscripts to publishers. Have you completed a manuscript? Wondering what to do now? Email the manuscript to Irina Dunn to get a quote for a detailed assessment report. If Irina thinks your manuscript has “legs”, she will approach the relevant Australian publishers on your behalf and get your manuscript past the injunction on many publishers’ websites: “No unsolicited manuscripts except from an agent”.
Turn your writing dreams into a published reality. The Erudite Pen provides qualified editing expertise and independent publishing services for fiction and nonfiction authors. Managing editor Dr Juliette Lachemeier is a professional member of IPEd, CIEP and AMWA. She is also an industry partner of the Australian Publishers Association who has helped authors to produce #1 bestselling titles.
I’m an experienced, university-qualified and IPEd-accredited editor. And editors are now at the centre of (almost) all things publishing! Self-employed since 2010, my previous in-house roles include managing editor, book editor, magazine editor and subeditor. My experience covers many subject areas and types of material. Talk to me about what you’d like to achieve in addition to an excellent editorial outcome. Do you need information about the publishing process, project management or marketing expertise? I look forward to sharing my knowledge with you….
Create, print, and sell professional-quality photo books, magazines, trade books, and ebooks with Blurb.
A boutique publisher which publishes annual anthologies and one or two other books yearly. Also offers fee-for-services to help people with self-publishing under the name of Busybird Publishing.
Midnight Marketing, founded by Sasha Buntman, assists individuals and businesses with copywriting and digital marketing. What you get in your complimentary copywriting consultation: Brainstorming and discussing your marketing goals. Helping your customers clearly learn about why they need your service or product. Determining the best way to explain how your business solves your customer’s issues. A framework for your first, unique, targeted advertisement. A discounted opportunity to complete your first advertisement professionally, so that it gets notice…
Provides large print, daisy and braille versions of existing works. E-books and text conversions.
Quikmark Media is a boutique PR consultancy specialising in business profile building & national publicity campaigns for non-fiction books.
CC Publishing is an author services company that provides professional proofreading and other editing services to self-publishing authors and students. CC Publishing also offers publication, marketing and advertising solution tailored to the needs of individual authors.
Novelist Kathryn Heyman founded the Australian Writers Mentoring Program in 2010 to offer high-level mentoring to new and emerging writers of fiction and non-fiction. The Program offers guidance to a select group of aspiring writers from Australia and around the world. The program runs over six months, providing five one-on-one meetings with an established, award-winning writer.