Editor: Kath Kovac

Email: kathkovac@gmail.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/KathKovacEditor

I’m a freelance editor of award-winning children’s nonfiction books.
Get in touch if you are a publisher or author who wants to make your manuscript shine!

Services

Substantive and copy editing Proofing (in Word and on designed PDFs)
Manuscript assessments Planning, writing and editing workshops

Subject matter experience

Biological and natural sciences, environment, general science

Genre and platform

Children’s nonfiction picture books and chapter books In prose and rhyming text

Specific projects

Polar Eyes: An Antarctic Journey by Tanya Patrick
Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect by Rohan Cleave
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly
Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater by Diane Jackson Hill
A Hollow is a Home by Abbie Mitchell
The Way of the Weedy Seadragon by Anne Morgan
The Forgotten Song by Coral Vass
Swifty by Stephanie Owen Reeder
Wonderful Wasps by Katrina Germain
Poo, Spew and other Gross Things Animals Do
by Nic Gill and Romane Cristescu
Imagining the Future: Invisibility, Immortality and 40 Other Incredible Ideas by Simon Torok and Paul Holper

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), PhD

Positions and memberships

Editorial consultant, CSIRO Energy Technology