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| About Ann Harth |
| Ann Harth lives in a small wooden house on a large green hill in Far North Queensland. She shares her life with her family and various forms of orphaned or injured wildlife. Although she has played with words for many years, necessity encouraged her to write outside of money-earning hours. Until her career took off, she waited tables, worked in nursing homes, bar tended, picked strawberries and punched keys on various tills. She also spent ten years working in various capacities with children with special needs. She is now a writing tutor for Cengage Education. Ann has ghostwritten several ebooks and articles. She enjoys research and learning and is willing to take on almost any subject. An open and direct relationship between editor and author is crucial to the production of strong work that fulfils the needs of the writer. Honesty is essential, but sensitivity is necessary. Ann Harth's life experiences and work in the behavioural sciences have taught her interpersonal communication skills that are vital to an editor and her clients. As a full member of the Australian Society of Editors, Ann has access to on-going professional training and will be up-to-date on the current standards for editing practice. She is technically proficient in on-screen as well as hard copy editing and is practiced in MS Word. Ann Harth is a twenty-year resident of both the USA and Australia which puts her in the unique position of being familiar with the cultural and language differences between these countries. This allows her to Americanize and Anglicise writing with ease. Ann has specific experience with copy and structural editing, extensive rewrites and proofreading of:
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| Employment 2007-present Writing Tutor for Cengage Education 2004-present Assistant Fiction Editor of Moondance.com 2000-present Creative writing staff of www.storydog.com 1994-present Freelance author Education 2004-present Diploma of Professional Editing and Proofreading, Australian College of Journalism 2000-2001 Diploma of Professional Children’s writing, Australian College of Journalism 1977-1982 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Psychology, Ithaca College, New York. |
Memberships
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Published work
o The Career Booster Program o The Early Childhood Newsletter o Writing 4 Success o Various websites
Consulting and Publishing
Consulting and Publishing
Consulting and Publishing
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