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