Commercial 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.
Laurel Cohn is an editor passionate about communication and the power of narrative to engage, inspire and challenge. She has been working in the industry since the 1980s. Services include editing, manuscript assessment, manuscript development, publishing consultancy, mentoring, design and layout, project management and prepress. Laurel and her small team of professional editors, writers and designers have helped many authors successfully realise their print and online publishing goals.
Senior Editor for IP Pty Ltd, Lauren Daniels has served annually as a literary contest judge since ’05. She holds a BA and MFA in Creative Writing and offers 20+ years international experience in publishing, mentoring, manuscript appraisal and editing for fiction and non-fiction. In Australia and the US, Lauren has delivered writing workshops with universities, corporations and outreach programs. She is the editor for 40+ Australian titles and has a published track record of her own starting in 1987.
Formerly the National Book Council Manuscript Assessment Service, Lynk provides expert assessments and copy edits across all genres. Team of professional editors, authors and academics offer emerging and established writers sensitive feedback and guidance.
Mackenzie Editing and Secretarial Services can assist with small, medium and large (including ongoing) projects on an hourly, daily or weekly rate. Services include style guides, copy-editing, proofreading and formatting technical and business documents.
The Manuscript Appraisal Agency, established in 1996, provides professional manuscript development services for authors, agents and publishing houses. We offer manuscript appraisals, mentorships and editing (copy editing, structural editing and proof reading). We use senior, experienced publishing industry personnel to work with your manuscript. Our work is widely supported by the publishing industry, literary agents and writers associations as a professional service for writers.
Marisa is a Perth based freelance fiction & non-fiction editor and journalist. She has worked for publishers, government departments and organisations and has written for national newspapers, for TV and radio news and for online publications.
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…
Natasha Gilmour has years of experience acquiring, editing, and representing bestselling fiction and non-fiction in the print and digital markets. Natasha has substantial in-house experience in publishing and has worked with many aspiring authors, guiding them to the stage where their manuscript is taken seriously. Her eye toward manuscript details and overall cohesiveness raises the quality of your writing.
Over the course of 10 years working in the publishing industry, Barbara Ivusic has amassed an invaluable skillset in publishing, editing, writing and cultivating talent. Barbara started her career by working in well known Australian Literary Agency, Rick Raftos Management. She then established New Author Literary Services to provide clients with manuscript assessments, editorial reports, copy-editing and proofreading. She has helped hundreds of authors polish their manuscripts to get them ready for publication.
We want to help you bring your work of fiction to life. After more than a decade of helping authors by editing and proofreading their works (plus over thirty years running an IT consultancy, where I wrote, edited, proofread and published several hundred technical documents), I put together a small group of likeminded people and started Patrick Editing. We work in all genres of fiction, by providing the following services: Proofreading, Editing, Copy Editing, Stylistic Editing, Developmental Editing and Co-authoring.
Koolewong, NSW, 2256,
Australia
As one of Australia’s long-standing premier typesetting companies, Post Pre-press Group’s quality typesetters, formatters, designers and proofreaders deliver superior typesetting, book formatting, e-publication and scanning services to businesses, individuals, self-publishers and publishing houses all over Australia. With competitive pricing and assistance with editorial contacts, provides services to any genre from personal manuscripts and novels to educational texts and technical works.
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.
Punch Bowl Design specialises in designing book covers and internals, graphics and marketing materials for a range of local and international publishers and self-publishers.
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…
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.
Quikmark Media is a boutique PR consultancy specialising in business profile building & national publicity campaigns for non-fiction books.
Rafaela Novelli Editing Services specialises in manuscript assessments, story development, structural editing, and copyediting. Rafaela offers services to established and aspiring authors of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s/YA to help refine and polish their manuscripts before submission to agents and publishers or self-publication. Rafaela is also available to edit reports, academic theses, essays, and articles.
Robin is a writer and accredited editor with experience in the publishing industry in Australia and overseas. She has edited projects in the following sectors: primary, secondary and tertiary education; business and professional; Vocational Education and Training; and Western Australian State Government resources. She has worked with the following organisations: Longman Australia (Melbourne), Macmillan (Australia), Thomas Nelson (Australia), Pitman Publishing Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Pearson Professional Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Macmillan (China), and…
Provides large print, daisy and braille versions of existing works. E-books and text conversions.
S.R.Graphic Design is a Graphic Design and Printing company located in Melbourne. Specialising in print based communication products, we can create the solution that best meets your needs from a simple ad to a corporate identity program. And all our projects are completed efficiently, economically and on time.
Sally Collings works with writers and organisations to turn great ideas into great books, specialising in non-fiction projects – particularly memoir and first-person narratives. Sally is a bestselling author, editor and publisher with 25+ years experience. Now based in California, Sally helps Australian writers succeed in the US market through proposal writing and editing services and industry briefings.
Do you have a manuscript that has some way to go but you don’t know how to proceed? Sandy Wagner is back to appraise manuscripts, doing what she had been doing since 1995; a detailed written report to guide, develop and even draw out what is not yet there. A goal in her assessing is to keep your vision so you have the confidence to work with it further. Original contact can be a phone call or email to discuss and receive the table of assessment fees, policy and expectations. Afterwards, follow-up conversation or/and correspondence to discuss the report a…
Script Central is a team of 15 writers, script editors and script consultants who provide expert script services, rewrites, adaptations, proofreading and commissioned scripts to writers of all levels of experience, producers and others interested in taking their scripts to professional levels of development.