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Workshops and publications

Providing Training and being involved in Speaking engagements are wonderful ways to engage with authors and editors, and so keep in touch with their needs, concerns and expectations.

 

The necessary research required when preparing for these events forms an integral aspect of my Continuous Professional Development (CPD). And this has been further enhanced by writing training courses, as well as contributing to books, newsletters and blogs.

Speaking engagements

  • Edinburgh Writers’ Forum. Debunking Editing Myths and Tips for Self-editing. With Helen Bleck.

  • Cymera Festival. Publishing pitfalls and how to avoid them: An editor’s guide. With Helen Beck and Andrew Hodges

  • Developmental Editing Day for Editors, with Helen Bleck and Andrew Hodges

  • CIEP annual conference:

    • Lightning Talk. Who dares wings

    • Full-day pre-conference training course. Introduction to Fiction Editing

    • Live Editing session (fiction)

    • An Introduction to Fiction Editing: Mind over Matter

  • Writers' Neuk. General editing matters

  • Consultant, trainer and editor (voluntary). SafeSpace charity write-athon

  • Kingston University publishing conference. Seminar. How do you know if it’s any good? Remaining objective about your work, recruiting objective feedback, working with editors – Why this is essential, not optional

  • Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (Scotland). Workshop. Welcome to Success

  • Informal talks to:

    • Various writers' groups

    • CIEP, Glasgow & Edinburgh Groups

    • Professional Development Day, CIEP Glasgow & NE Scotland Groups

    • Creative Careers Fair, University of Edinburgh

    • PublishEd Society, University of Edinburgh

Speaking Engagements

It's been such a wonderful learning experience. Thank you for giving us your time and energy and joy for writing!

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Maritsa Grey, author, Middle Way mentee & student, HarperCollins Author Academy

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Published work and guest blogs

  • Chapter 9. ‘How do you know if it's any good?’ with Gale Winskill. In: The Naked Author: A Guide to Self-publishing, Alison Baverstock (Bloomsbury, 2011), pp. 115–129.

  • ‘Self-Publishing: any good?’ Editing Matters: The magazine for editors and proofreaders (Society for Editors and Proofreaders, November 2010), p. 4.

  • ‘You've written a children's book. Now what?’ Thistleblower: The Newsletter for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Scotland. (March 2009), p. 12.

 

Written under my maiden name, F.G Taylor:

  • Active Composition, F.G Taylor, M. Reive & H.D. Taylor (Youth Bookroom, Hong Kong, 1995).

  • Get it Right: Integrated Listening, Reading and Writing Exercises, Book One, F.G. Taylor (Youth Bookroom, Hong Kong, 1994).

  • Get it Right: Integrated Listening, Reading and Writing Exercises, Book Two, F.G. Taylor (Youth Bookroom, Hong Kong, 1994).

Publications

Guest blogs

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