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Editing and graphic design: how to make your book accessible to people with reading difficulties or disabilities
This article is about editing, designing and producing publications that are accessible to people who have reading difficulties caused by dyslexia, intellectual disabilities, limited literacy, or o...
Our publications: self-published life stories and memoirs
Sally-Anne Watson Kane has been scribing, editing and producing self-published life stories, memoirs and oral histories for 26 years. Currently (late 2002) producing these self-published memoirs a...
Writers with disabilities: how to obtain NDIS funding to meet your writing/self-publishing goals
In Australia, writers with disabilities who have NDIS funding are able to apply for funds to work with a service provider to achieve their goals. Hiring an editor to edit your manuscript or coac...
Poetry Manuscript Appraisal Checklist
On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading: reads and reviews your poetry book manuscript, then writes a manuscript appraisal report based on our Checklist. Our Poetry Manuscript Appraisa...
Marketing your business during and after COVID-19
Over the past two months, many businesses have been able to quickly rethink their marketing strategies, and come up with new strategies that target the current needs of clients in our new COVID-19 ...
Writing and editing: the tools we use for communicating with clients
We use different communication tools for our different writing and editing services, which include: 1) life story writing, and editing, designing and producing self-published memoirs and autobio...
Preserving your family’s story for future generations
Nowadays, most families are too busy to spend much time listening to their elders' stories. This means that often, when the great-grandparents, grandparents or parents pass away, most of their and ...
Self-publishing: producing a hardcopy book
The steps of producing a self-published hardcopy book are: writing and self-editing (including, possibly, beta reading and/or manuscript appraisal); editing; graphic design; proofreading; proofread...
Scribes and minute-takers: the importance of good auditory (listening and understanding) skills
What is a scribe or minute-taker A scribe or minute-taker is a person who scribes what the people at a meeting are saying while they are saying it. They also scribe interviews, discussions, perfor...
PEGG Report – Poetry Editing Group Gippsland workshop 8th Feb 2020
The second Poetry Editing Group Gippsland (PEGG) workshop was held from 12.30 pm to 5 pm at the Moe library, on Saturday 8th February, 2020. The focus of this particular workshop was traditional...