Past Publishing / Editing Courses

Editing for the Web

The way we read and the way we enter and leave websites are unlike print-reading habits. Readers skim and scan, scroll and search. They are in a hurry. They’re fickle, skeptical and flighty. What does this mean for editors? This workshop develops and extends a set of techniques that work on a screen for your audience and your purposes. Details

Editing Non-Fiction

Non-fiction accounts for the overwhelming majority of publications and includes genres and subjects from autobiography to zoology. It covers all media, from books to websites, from reports to journals. In recent years, there has been a blurring of the boundaries so that non-fiction is now less bound by tradition. Details

Editing Fiction

Fiction editing means developing the judgement and confidence to identify the strengths and weaknesses in a manuscript and to suggest options when characterisation lacks depth, descriptions are clichéd or you discover a plot hole. Details

Embracing e-Publishing: Implications & Strategic Planning

This workshop for publishing professionals and particularly those responsible for strategic planning and publishing programme management, is designed to take a practical look at the e-publishing phenomenon and discuss its implications for investment, product development, production, sales and marketing, and distribution. Details

What the Supremely Confident Commissioning Editor/Publisher Needs to Know

When we’re new to a publishing/commissioning role, we often lack confidence but even when we’ve been in the role for a few years, the weight of responsibility of managing a successful list or of being targeted with increasing a company’s market share can be overwhelming. This one‐day course will help you take practical steps to achieving more confidence in the responsible role that you have in your organisation. Details

Digital Licensing and Distribution

This workshop will teach you about business models, licensing versus distribution, negotiations of contracts and other learning objectives that publishers should know about publishing. Details

Digital Marketing and e-Commerce in Publishing

Online and digital media represents a completely new way of establishing relationships with a marketplace, and requires new approaches to sales and marketing. This workshop presents an overview of some the key principles in development a new approach to marketing for a digital customer-base. Details

Digital Product Development in Publishing

The advent of digital media brings both opportunities and challenges in product development. This workshop, intended for publishing professionals in the areas of production, design, and editorial development, provides an overview of concepts and challenges involved in digital product development. Details

Developing a Digital Strategy in Publishing

This session is directed toward publishers and other senior managers with profit and loss responsibilities for publishing or other content organisations. Publishers understand the need for the development of transformative digital strategies to respond to the changing dynamics of the digital marketplace. This workshop provides a foundation for developing a digital strategy. Details

Self Publishing and Print on Demand by BookPal Australia

This exclusive, one day workshop will enlighten, excite and educate you as an author. Places are limited so book early to avoid missing out on the one event that could change your life as an author. Details

The A-Z of Book Marketing with Brett Osmond

Learn how to market a book in the 21st Century! Through this interactive workshop, you will learn the full range of promotional tools: publicity, book design, pricing, distribution, selling materials, events and festivals, digital marketing including social media and online advertising. Details

Dealing with Academic, Educational & Technical Works

This day-long workshop will enable you to approach these challenges with more confidence. In particular, you will learn methods for dealing with large, multi-author projects, where several editors may have to work on the text at once. Details

Advanced Copy-editing & Effective Project Management

Editors looking to progress in their careers need to know more than the rules of punctuation and grammar. This stimulating workshop looks at the issues and problems that confront editors who work or want to work at a more advanced level and provides you with proven strategies to deal with the challenges that are faced by senior editors. Details

The Basic Principles of Book Design and Production

This two-day course is for editors, new designers, picture researchers, marketing staff who deal with freelancers, or anyone needing an overview. The course assumes that you are familiar with the terminology of editorial processes and publishing generally. Details

Publishing Finance for Non-financial Managers

An understanding of the numbers and an ability to manage the key tool in business – money – is critical for business and personal success. This one-day course is for anyone in publishing who wants to understand the basics of finance and budgets in a publishing environment. Details