Laurel Cohn

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Laurel Cohn Editing and Manuscript Development Services works with experienced editors, published authors and innovative designers. MADELINE OLIVER has been writing and editing for many years. She studied Book Editing at Macleay College, and has a degree in Sociology and Social Policy from UNSW. She is interested in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres and particularly enjoys the engagement with works-in-progress. She also works as an academic editor and corporate copywriter. In 2015 Random House publish the popular women's novel The Painted Sky, co-written by Madeline with four other members of her book club under the pseudonym Alice Campion. "Working in a group made me aware of the importance of structure," she says, "and constantly giving and getting feedback was excellent practise for critical appraisal, as well as writing techniques themselves. With a writing partner, she is working on a second book in the series. She has written an adventure story for 8-12 year olds and a contemporary young adult novel now in its final draft. MARIA SIMMS is an editor and author who has been assessing a broad range of manuscripts for over two decades. Theatre sketches were a springboard into a career of writing long and short fiction and non-fiction, articles, book reviews, academic and business texts and advertising material. Her historical crime novel, The Dead House, published in 2008, was awarded New Holland Publishing's prize for genre fiction. Jack's War, an RAAF war diary/biography that she compiled and edited, was published in 2013. Along the way Maria has acquired PhD and MA degrees in creative writing and numerous awards for her writing and academic performance. She has lectured in creative and academic writing at university and published educational texts. Maria runs workshops in writing fiction and non-fiction. It gives her great satisfaction to work with emerging writers of all genres, offering support and guidance from initial concept to final draft. HELEN WILLIAMS has many years' experience in ...Read more

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