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Free offer: memoir about mental illness, child abuse and survival
This article has been written and published on behalf of Joan Sammon, for whom I edited and produced a memoir, A life: I am what I am! Background Joan Sammon grew up in Sydney. She is schizophr...
Sally-Anne Watson Kane’s professional development in writing and editing
Professional development: writing and editing non-fiction, memoir, family histories, poetry, fiction Ongoing writing/editing professional development: Sally-Anne Watson Kane is a professional...
Turning oral histories into self-published life stories (memoir or autobiography)
Oral histories are stories told by a person to another person or into a recorder. They can be about the person's whole life, or about just one or multiple experiences or periods in their life. ...
Structural or developmental editing – what is it?
Once a manuscript has been written and self-edited by the writer to the stage where they feel they can't improve it any more themselves, it needs to be edited by a professional editor. Structura...
Debriefing and confidentiality, when working with sensitive or explicit material
Maintaining confidentiality If you're working in a position where you've got access to your clients' private information (such as their life stories or researched information), it's essential to m...
Scribing dictation, minute-taking and report-writing – our clients
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading scribes verbatim or summary notes (as required) and writes minutes and reports. We scribe dictation, interviews, meetings and discussions. Our method o...
‘Hold your head up high’ by Garry Chippindall (dec)
Garry Chippindall began writing his memoir in 1999 when diagnosed with cancer. He sought help from life story writer Sally-Anne Watson Kane (owner/operator of OTTEP), and began regular scribing ses...
Collaborative poetry editing
One way to edit something as personal and subjective as a poem, or a collection of poems, is to edit it in very close consultation with the poet. When editing a poem or manuscript for a book of ...
Buibere – volumes 1 and 2 (self-published oral histories of 22 East Timorese women)
Acknowledgement Sally-Anne Watson Kane would like to acknowledge and thank her mentor, friend and bi'in, ita bo'ot Veronica Pereira, for the professional and cultural assistance and support she pr...
Their life, their times – by Tony Taylor
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading produced the following book, which was self-published July 2021, for our client, author Tony Taylor: Copyright: Tony Taylor 2021 Title: Their lives,...