This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
Hi, fellow writers! I'm a proof reader/copy editor. Six years ago I delved into the world of writing. Since then, my novel WAR AND CHANCE has been published and can be found on Amazon.com and The Book Depository.
My new book, THE CIVILIAN BOMB DISPOSING EARL, is the biography of Charles Henry George Howard (known as Jack) 20th Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire, GC,an adventurer, scientist, pioneer in b
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I started out working in the field of scientific and medical proof reading/copy editing in Belgium, for 4 years. Later, I worked at Adis International, medical publishers, for 2 years as a freelance proofreader in New Zealand.
I have always, always had my nose in a book ever since I was young enough to read. I now have a house filled with books that keep multiplying. I went freelance for 16 years editing novels, a few movie scripts, theses, legal documents, health and government press releases and protocols. I also wrote copy for a New Zealand trade publishing company on 6 magazines. I have also been a judge and reader for the NZ Short Story 6 Pack Competition for 2 years.
Birth Place
Southampton, England
Accomplishments
Massey University Papers in: Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, Human Development, Adolescence, Religious Studies - Muslim, Judaism, Christianity and History - Families Through the Ages.
Certificates in NZQA Business Computing and TESOL
I've been a mentor and a Nominated Person with the NZ Police working with young offenders
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Author and Copy Editor
19A Mulgan Street, Katikati 3129 Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Katikati 3129
New Zealand
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