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Transforming oral histories into self-published life stories (memoir or autobiography)

Oral histories are stories told by one person to another and/or recorded electronically. They can be about the person’s whole life, or about just one or multiple experiences or periods in their l...

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Our writing/editing coaches – supporting neurodivergent and disabled writers (including NDIS participants)

Our writer-coaches consult with our clients (via Zoom/phone) to coach and provide them with support to meet their writing, self-editing or editing goals. Many of our clients are NDIS participant...

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Our scribes and minute-takers – scribing via telephone, Zoom/online, and face to face

On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading has five scribes and minute-takers,  based in Darwin (NT), Gippsland (VIC), Cairns (QLD) and Toowoomba (QLD). Our three verbatim scribes have passed the...

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Sally-Anne Watson Kane’s professional development in writing and editing

Professional development: writing and editing non-fiction, memoir, family histories, poetry, fiction Sally-Anne Watson Kane is a: professional member of Institute of Professional Editors (IPE...

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Should NDIS participants be paying GST for their supports, or not?

Question: If you are an NDIS participant, should GST-registered suppliers be charging you GST? Answer: It depends what supports they are supplying to you. Some types of supplies are GST-free; ot...

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Our editors – memoirs, novels, poetry, non-fiction books; articles, reports

Our team of editors are experienced in editing memoir, autobiography, biography, family history, novels and short stories (fiction), creative non-fiction, poetry, and  non-fiction publications. We...

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Can you sell your books, if you used NDIS-funded supports to help you write them?

If you have used NDIS-funded supports to help you write a book, can you then sell your books? Yes, you can. An example of an NDIS participant who sells their books Let's say you are an NDIS parti...

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Our experience in working with people from different backgrounds and abilities

We provide typing, writing, editing, self-publishing and coaching services to people from a diverse range of backgrounds, cultures and ancestry, people who are LGBTQI+, people who are neurodivergen...

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Among the Wildflowers – poetry by Delia Tobin, Seamus Foley and Sally-Anne Watson Kane

This new self-published book is a collection of memoir-based poems by 3 poets: co-authors Delia Tobin, Seamus Foley and Sally-Anne Watson Kane. Themes and landscapes in Ireland and Victoria, Austr...

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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...

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