Janet Mackenzie

superscript Editing

446 Monkey Gully Road, Mansfield VIC 3722

Phone 03 5775 2988  Fax 03 5775 2988

E-mail superscript@netspace.net.au

ABN 32 380 100 402

Distinguished Editor (Institute of Professional Editors)

Expert word-cruncher, skilled at preparing authors’ output for publication:

• appraisal
• rewriting
• structural editing and copy editing (disk or hard copy).

Good at negotiating with authors and familiar with commercial realities of costs and schedules.

In-house Editor

MUP, 1969–71. Editor, Routledge, London, 1971–72.

Freelance

Thirty years full-time. Clients include major publishers of scholarly, educational and general books.

Instructor: Society of Editors workshops.

Examples of work

Author The Editor’s Companion (CUP). Co-writer IPEd accreditation exam 2009.

Editing Greg Dening, Beach Crossings (Miegunyah Press), Stephen Bell, Australia’s Money Mandarins: The Reserve Bank and the Politics of

Money (CUP).

Areas of expertise

Large projects; major cuts and rewrites; complex page layouts. Prolixities docked, dullnesses enlivened, fads eliminated.

Areas of interest

Environmental subjects (especially botany and alternative technology), feminism, education, history and genealogy, law and criminology, literature, current affairs. Good general knowledge.

Qualifications

BA (Hons)(English Language), University of Melbourne. Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Barbara Ramsden Award (1971).

Member

Honorary Life Member, Society of Editors (Vic.); IPEd Assessors Forum.

Windows user, Word 2003