Editing/research
Qualifications: BA, History (Asian Studies) UNE, 2001, various editing, writing and website software courses
Services
- Editing. Copy editing, proof reading, structural editing
- Other services. Research, writing, desktop publishing, design, website maintenance
- Subject fields. International development and health (Asia), health, social sciences, food, environmentalism, Buddhism
- Media. Newsletters, PR material
Specific projects
- Helped edit a technical report submitted to the World Health Organisation, 'Environment, Agriculture and
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH)
Australian National University (ANU) - Researched food, analysis of intergeneration health equity concerning climate change in Australia and
ballroom dancing for the over-seventies, NCEPH, ANU - Designed and helped create a new medical students' journal and copy-edited submissions for the
Australian National University School of Medicine - Worked with a Thai academic on a case study food choices and children's eating behaviour, and also
a book about Thai food culture and history. - Editor, BODHI Times, since 1991
- Developed and maintain two websites
- Have written 4 long works of fiction, 3 local history booklets and 2 cookbooks
NEWS
February 2012. 'Black Bag Moon: Doctors' Tales from Dusk to Dawn' is in production at Radcliffe. Publication date: June, 2012. More news as it develops.
Medical humanities
January 2012. I am now on the International Editorial Board of Hektoen International, an online medical humanities journal out of Chicago, USA, to which I sometimes submit short stories.
Your ideas very welcome. We're working on new definitions of medical fiction, something other than hospital dramas, medical thrillers, bodice-ripping romance and thinly-veiled personal reminiscences and anecdotes. Please throw in your two cents' worth!
Accepted!
17 November 2011. Black Bag Moon, the second work of medical fiction, has been accepted for publication by Radcliffe Publishing in the UK (http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/).
Seeking publishers
The AFTBACK Chronicles
Contemporary satire. Three stuffed animals endure internet brides and bear poaching in China, autism in the Wild West and cyberspace psychoanalysis so their human mistress can endure a year's separation from her husband. Read more
Just Add Nauseam
Modern mystery. What lurks beneath the surface in Tasmania? Asylum seekers save the day. Eco-terrorists, old wills, egotistical chefs and a climate change scientist as murder suspect are waiting for you ... Read more
Other news
Secrets from the Black Bag
Recommended Text of General Practice Training Tasmania and Recommended Reading for the [medical] Association of Course Organisers in the UK.