About Us

On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading

  • is Australian-owned and operated (since 2002), GST-registered, ABN 24 058 673 136. Owner/operator Sally-Anne Watson Kane.
  • also trades as On Time Typing Books and Life Stories,  Companion Writing Coaching and Support, and On Time Typing.
  • provides scribing, writing, editing, proofreading, transcript and self-publishing services across Australia: Victoria; Northern Territory; Queensland; New South Wales; South Australia; ACT;  Tasmania; and Western Australia.
  • welcomes storytellers and writers of all backgrounds and abilities
  • specialises in memoirs or life stories that involve: (1) First Nations storytellers, (2) neurodivergent storytellers; (3) people with disabilities; (4) traumatic life stories; and (4) poetry.
  • is a diverse team of typists, scribes, writers, editors and graphic designers – including neurodivergent, gender diverse and First Nations people – based in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, ACT and Northern Territory. See details here.
  • scribing (typing as you speak) and audio transcription:  scribing-as-you-speak: memoirs, life stories, reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings. Producing transcripts of audio recordings (interviews, focus groups).
  • writing (including writing in the voice of the storyteller): writing or scribing life stories, autobiographies, memoirs and other non-fiction including reports. Writing articles, blogs, series of articles, website content.
  • typing manuscripts and other: copy typing handwritten or typed manuscripts, submissions, capturing data (Excel), and other documentation.
  • editing and proof reading: editing and proofreading reports, policies and publications (poetry, fiction, non-fiction including memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, histories, academic). Developmental or structural editing, and copy editing. Proofreading in Word, PDF and InDesign.
  • editorial reviews and manuscript assessments: manuscripts of fiction (novels), non-fiction (memoirs, histories, academic), and poetry books.
  • graphic design and illustrations: designing and formatting publications and reports, using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and other programs.
  • self-publishing services: producing publications from spoken word, or handwritten manuscript, through to printed, self-published book. Can include  typing, scribing/writing as you speak, all stages of editing, typesetting (graphic design), cover design, proofreading, printer liaison, ebook uploads/publishing.

If you are looking for a writing coach, go to: Companion.

We guarantee Quality, Confidentiality and Reliability. We have voluntarily ‘opted in’ to be covered by the Privacy Act (1988) (Australia) and are included in OAIC’s Opt-In Register under section 6EA(3) of the Act. We are registered with Industry Capability Network (ICN) in NT, NSW and VIC and have a longterm team of contractors in NT, QLD, SA, ACT and VIC.

We work with most of our clients remotely, via email, Zoom, telephone, Google meets, Teams and other platforms. We can meet face to face with our clients in or near the locations where our scribes, typists, editors or writers live.

Sally-Anne Watson Kane

  • owns and operates On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading, On Time Typing Books and Life Stories and Companion Writing Coaching and Support.
  • established her businesses in 2002 in Darwin NT; now based in Gippsland VIC; her team of scribes, editors and typists live in VIC, SA, NT, ACT and QLD.
  • 30 years’ experience: scribing, consulting with and working with people who are neurodivergent, have disabilities, are from diverse backgrounds or  educational levels, and/or are First Nations people or people of colour.
  •  30 years’ experience: editing and self-publishing for/with clients from diverse backgrounds; writing and editing fiction, non-fiction and poetry; specialising in developmental editing, editing oral histories, and editing memoir and poetry.
  • 25 years’ experience: scribing and writing selection and referee reports
  • 30 years’ experience: audio transcription: accurate transcripts of interviews, focus groups, investigations, hearings, parliamentary sittings.

Sally-Anne’s professional memberships:

For more information go to: Sally-Anne’s editing experience; publications;  professional development.

Our typists, scribes, editors and graphic designers

  • are Sally-Anne, Claire, Christina, Christine, Meg, Natalie,  Teresa,  Fin,  Kellie, Kyle, Jarrah, Kyla-Jayne, Deb, Pete L and Pete S.
  • are all Australian residents who work as contractors from their home-based offices in Melbourne, Bendigo, East Gippsland and Moe, Victoria; Darwin, Northern Territory;  Adelaide, South Australia; Canberra, ACT; Katoomba in New South Wales; and Cairns in Queensland.
  • have all signed strict confidentiality agreements with On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading.

For more detailed information about our team members, go to: The On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading Team.

Our experience

editing, graphic design, typing

For details of our editing team, go to: Our editors.

For details of our graphic design team (graphic design, typesetting, image creation/editing), go to: Our graphic designers.

For details of our typists, including their qualifications and experience, go to: Our typists and audio transcriptionists.

scribing as you speak, and minute-taking

Our scribes and minute-takers have extensive experience in scribing. Our verbatim scribes are required to pass the On Time Scribing Accuracy Test. Minutes and reports are edited to a high standard. We scribe via telephone, Zoom and other platforms, across Australia. Our scribes are based in Moe, Gippsland (VIC), Melbourne (VIC), and Canberra (ACT).

For details of our scribes, go to: Our scribes

Our publications

Some of the books we have produced are pictured above. To see all the books Sally-Anne has produced,  go to: Our publications.

Publications in progress: We are currently editing a biography by a Gippsland author; editing the life story of a central Victorian woman; and writing a life story.

Join us on social media

Blog:  Read our articles about scribing, editing, self-publishing, life story writing, poetry writing and editing, and other topics in our Blog

LinkedIn: Check out Sally-Anne’s articles and join her network of professionals based around Australia: LI Sally-Anne Watson Kane

Facebook:  Follow us at @Sally-AnneWK (timeline), and our various “branches”: Australia;   Northern Territory;   Gippsland;   Melbourne;   Sydney, NSW & ACT;   Queensland;  Central Vic;  Adelaide;   Perth;   Poetry & fiction – writing, self-editing, editing;  On Time Typing Books and Life Stories.

Instagram:  Follow us at On Time Typing/Sally-Anne WK

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Our commitment

  • We practice and advocate for diversity and inclusivity in the publishing industry (authors, editors, publishers). We will treat you with respect, and display integrity, honesty and reliability, regardless of your background, attributes or situation. We will continue to encourage, assist and promote the writing, editing and publication of  books by people who are First Australians,   are culturally and linguistically diverse, and are neurodivergent or who have  disabilities
  • We offer a signed guarantee of Confidentiality. We have voluntarily ‘opted in’ to be covered by section 6EA(3) of the Privacy Act (1988) (Australia) and are included in OAIC’s Opt-In Register for that Act
  • Our team of typists, scribes, transcriptionists, editors and designers (all contractors living in Australia) includes people with disabilities, neurodivergent editors and coaches, and a First Nations person. We continue to encourage people from diverse backgrounds and with disabilities to join our team. We treat all contractors fairly.
  • We comply with On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading’s Code of Ethics which covers ethical, diversity, environmental and other issues. As  professional members of Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), our editors are committed to IPEd’s Code of Ethics. A full member of Life Stories Australia (LSA), owner/operator Sally-Anne Watson Kane is committed to LSA’s Code of Ethics, and as a full member of Oral History Australia (Victoria),  committed to ethical practice and learning more about oral history best practice.

Acknowledgements

We respectfully acknowledge the Brauakaulung Traditional Custodians of the Gunaikurnai nation on whose land Sally-Anne (owner/operator) lives and works, and pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and all First Nations people of Australia. We also particularly acknowledge the First Nations Traditional Elders of the Countries where our other typists, editors and designers are based: Woi Wurrung/Wurundjeri (Melbourne VIC), Dja Dja Warrung (Bendigo VIC), Tjapukai (Cairns, QLD), Ngunnawal (ACT), and Gulumirrgin (Darwin NT). We recognise the value of their historical and ongoing cultural and spiritual connections with Country, and their generous sharing of knowledges with the Australian community. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

Sally-Anne Watson Kane is the author and copyright owner of all written content in this website, including the blog, excluding annotated quotations.

All the images in this website, excluding the blog, have been created by either Darren Kane or Sally-Anne Watson Kane. Sally-Anne is the copyright owner of all the images on this website, excluding some images (all of which are acknowledged and legally reproduced) in the blog. 

The black-and-white-bird logo was designed and produced by Darren Kane. This image is a mudlark/peewee. This image and the name ‘On Time Typing’ has been trademarked under the name of Sally-Anne Watson Kane, who owns all Intellectual Property rights, since 2002.

Sally-Anne Watson Kane sincerely thanks our suppliers/partners:

  • Darren Kane for contributing photographs for our website and blog; creating the black-and-white-bird image (peewee/mudlark) which has been our trademarked logo since 2003; and being Sally-Anne’s rock and ideas man
  • Tony Cosentino, The WordPress Guy, for website maintenance and IT support
  • Gibson Accounting for accounting services
  • Veronica Pereira for her assistance in producing Buibere – Voice of East Timorese Women, Volume 1 and Buibere – Lian Feto Loro Sa’e Nian volum 2, and ongoing collaboration in oral history projects
  • Our dedicated team of contractor typists, scribes, editors and graphic designers, all listed here.