Editing
We recommend you have your book professionally edited before publication. As the author, you have spent a lot of time and effort on your book, and will spend a significant amount of money. Your readers will notice every mistake, every typo, and if there are more than one or two they will simply not buy the book or they will put it down. You will have lost their respect because they know better than you do. And even the best writer can miss something: they read what they expect to see, not what is actually there.
Editing and producing your book
We feel editing is so important that we offer a discount of $100 off the rate of $190 for each 10 000 words (on paper only), or $360 for each 10 000 words on disk, if we edit it as well as produce it. There is a minimum fee of $770. No other discounts apply. If you choose not to have your book edited, we will point out any problems we happen to see but that is all we will have time for.
Editing only
General editing rates are:
$299 for each 10,000 words on paper
$590 for each 10,000 words on disk
Minimum fee of $1090 ($1990 on disk)
$100 discount off typesetting after we have edited it. No other discounts apply.
We are happy to edit a few pages of your document so that you can see our suggestions, and we can fix a firm quote for editing.
We offer detailed suggestions about structure and content, as well as line-by-line, word-by-word editing and proofreading. We also edit books, theses, reports and all documents.
Here is a list of the books and reports Susan has edited.
Department of Education and Children’s Services, On the same basis: Implementing the Disability Discrimination Act Standards for Education, 2007 DECS.
Department of Education and Children’s Services, Teaching ESL in mainstream classrooms, 2007 DECS.
Department of Education and Children’s Services Handwriting in the South Australian curriculum, 2007 DECS.
Department of Education and Children’s Services ELM Tables, 2005 DECS.
Department for Education and Children’s Services 1996, Early Years Literacy Profile 1996, DECS.
Department for Education and Children’s Services Early Literacy: Practices and Possibilities (1997) 750 pps, DECS, Adelaide.
Book 1: Understanding and planning for Literacy
Book 2: Selecting and adapting teaching strategies
Book 3: Literacy assessment and achievement
Book 4: Working together: examples of whole school practices
Book 5: Training and development
Department for Education and Children’s Services ECLIPSE: Literacy in early childhood 1997 DECS, Adelaide.
Blackley, H 2005, Love and Death in Cyprus, Limelight Press, Balmain, NSW.
Brittain, JM (ed) 1996 Introduction to information management, Occasional monographs no 16, Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Riverina, Wagga Wagga, NSW.
Cameron, MA 1997 The Bogside boy, Vindan Press, Melbourne.
Report of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Commission, 1995, State Print, Adelaide.
Alcohol Misuse and Violence series, 1994, Prepared for the National symposium on Alcohol Misuse and Violence, hosted by the Department of Human Services and Health in 1993, AGPS. (as part of a team)
1. The Incidence and Prevalence of Alcohol Use and Violence in the Australian Community
2. Alcohol Misuse and Violence: Exploring the Relationship
3. Cross-cultural Analysis of the Relationship between Alcohol and Violence
4. Alcohol and Violence against Women and Children in the Home
5. An Examination of the Appropriateness and Efficacy of Liquor-licensing Laws in Australia
6A. Legal Approaches to Alcohol-related Violence: the Summary
6B. Legal Approaches to Alcohol-related Violence: the Reports
7. Situational and Environmental factors in Alcohol-related Violence
9. Alcohol-related Violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities: A Literature Review
Lehtmets, A and Hoile D, 1994, Sentence: Siberia, Wakefield Press, South Australia.
Buist, Dr A 1996, Psychiatric Disorders associated with childbirth, McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
Reform of Local Government in South Australia: Councils of the Future June 1995, Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Local Government Reform.
Back on their Feet: A History of the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service 1992, John Tipping, AGPS.