Robin Bower

Editor/Writer/Publications Coordinator
Email: robinb@westnet.com.au

Fourteen years experience in book and magazine publishing in Australia and overseas. Editing includes primary, secondary, post-secondary, tertiary, business and professional and VET sectors for Longman Australia, Macmillan (Australia), Thomas Nelson, Pitman Publishing Asia Pacific, Pearson Professional Asia Pacific, Macmillan (China), Western Australian Government. Managing editor/publisher of three trade magazines for the jewellery and diamond sector in Hong Kong (in Chinese, Japanese and English - writing, editing, commissioning, project management); and writer/designer for a mining magazine in Perth. Currently Publications Coordinator developing learning resources for the Western Australian Government VET and K-12 sectors.
Editing: 38 titles edited including maths, spelling, language, law, tertiary, professional, business, Pitman, VET titles for educational publishers and Western Australian Government. Writing: 43 articles published in Hong Kong-based and Melbourne-based publications: Hong Kong diamond and jewellery magazine Asia Precious; Hong Kong Trade Development Council's magazine Enterprise; Hong Kong-based magazine B International; B International's Best of the Best; Australian Book Review; Melbourne magazine Single Life.

Available for freelance editing, proofreading and writing.

Qualifications
BA (English) (UWA)
DipEd (Primary) (UWA)
Advanced Certificate in Professional Writing & Editing (RMIT University)
GradDip in Editing and Publishing (RMIT University)

Memberships
Society of Editors (WA)