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TRAINING, PUBLICATIONS & BLOGS |
Tutoring, mentoring, training courses, workshops & seminars
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- Tutor, CIEP's Introduction to Fiction Editing course (2015–present).
- Mentor, CIEP's Proofreading Mentoring scheme (2016–present).
- Revised and updated Publishing Training Centre’s (PTC) Editing Fiction and Editorial Style online courses (2021).
- London Book Fair, Insights Seminar Programme. March 2019. Seminar, co-presented with Margaret Hunter: Authors Are Our Business: The Collaborative Relationship between Editor and Author.
- Project-managed and co-wrote the CIEP’s Introduction to Fiction Editing online course (2015).
- SfEP (now the CIEP) Annual Conference:
- 2018. Lightning talk: Who dares wings
- 2015. One-day, pre-conference training course. Introduction to Fiction Editing
- 2016. Live Editing Session (fiction)
- 2014. Workshop, An Introduction to Editing Fiction: Mind over Matter
- 2014. Seminar, How we got started (with John Firth and Richard Hutchinson).
- Informal talks to:
- Writers' groups
- SfEP (now the CIEP), Glasgow & Edinburgh Groups
- Professional Development Day, SfEP Glasgow & NE Scotland Groups
- Creative Careers Fair, University of Edinburgh
- University of Edinburgh, PublishEd Society.
- Consultant/trainer/editor (voluntary): SafeSpace charity write-athon, 2013–2014 (patron, the late Iain Banks).
- Kingston Publishing Conference, Kingston University, London. 2010. Seminar.
- Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh. 2009. Workshop.
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Scotland) (SCBWI). 2009. Summer retreat: Workshop.
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- 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).
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