About Us

Creative Text Solutions helps you inspire and connect through the written word. 

Creative Text Solutions was established in 2012 to assist writers tell their story. I have worked with numerous authors though writing, editing, publishing, marketing and indexing their books.

I am an accredited editor with the Institute of Professional Editors, Australia.

Click here to read more about my story.

Here is a short summary of my activities:

2018

• Commissioned to write history of Australian Strings Association.
• Wrote, researched, edited and published private family memoirs.
• Edited for publication a 90-year-old life history. 
• Articles appeared in EdVic newsletter, Blue Pencil (journal of Editors NSW) and Melbourne Indexers Bulletin.

2017

• Published my first book, Manuscript to Market: the lifecycle of getting your book into print. It unpacks the writing, editing, publishing process of writing a book, from out of the mind and into the hand. Click here to order a copy.
• City Kid shortlisted for inaugural IPEd Rosanne Fitzgibbon Award. Over $10,000 in sales in two years.

2016

• UC Berkeley Indexing Theory and Practice course.

2015

• Edited and brought to publication City Kid by Lola Russell, the memoirs of a lady who lives in the oldest house in Melbourne's CBD.
• On Editors Victoria Communications committee.

2014

• Became an IPEd accredited editor 

2013 - Present

• Full Member Editors Victoria
• Member Australia Society of Authors
• Member Australian Society of Indexers
• National Editor of Australian Strings Association magazine, Stringendo