Editing and writing
I have been a book editor for twenty years.
I offer developmental, structural and line editing to emerging non-contracted writers,
as well as working for publishers on a freelance basis.
I am a helper of writers, a polisher of words, a lover of story, a safe but incisive pair of hands.
I am also a writer.
I have been told that I edit the way a writer writes – from the inside out.
I used to live in regional Victoria, with a view over a winter wonderland, a room upstairs to write, edit and hold workshops in,
and an appreciation for the cold in Peter Temple's novels.
I then lived on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, with pandanus trees, blue skies and a climate that is more Boys Swallows Universe. I owned The Junction Bookstore in Noosa Heads for two years and learned another side of the trade.
Melbourne again is the Merri Creek and a deep appreciation for the City of Literature.
