IP is administered by its Director, Dr David Reiter, who acts as webmaster of this site. Our Prose Editor is Lauren Daniels, and we also have on staff Anna Bartlett, Kieran Davey, Laura Simpson, Joanne Brennan, Stephanie Cairns, and Katharina Schmelzer,
IP works with freelancers as required by the projects it takes on, especially for illustrations, mentoring and assessments.
IP welcomes expressions of interest from people with experience in the publishing field. We maintain a database of freelance editors and assessers who can demonstrate skills in state-of-the-art publishing (especially electronic) and who are able to work remotely, linking with the IP Studio electronically. If you wish to be considered for freelance work, please send your resume, including a list of referees and a description of the hardware and software you currently use.
About Dr David Reiter, Director
David Reiter is an award-winning poet and writer
of fiction, scripts and multimedia. His fourth book, Hemingway
in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 Adelaide Festival
Literature Awards. His previous books include The Cave After Saltwater
Tide (Penguin,
1994) for which he won the Queensland Premier’s Poetry Award. His book
of short fiction, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. His most recent works are Letters
We Never Sent; The Gallery,
a work of literary multimedia he has been touring in Australia; Kiss
and Tell, Selected and New Poems 1987-2002;
and Sharpened
Knife, a multimedia
murder mystery. His most recent works are the children's picture book Real Guns, the novel Liars
and Lovers the script and performance CD Paul
and Vincent, and the feature-length DVD Hemingway
in Spain. Phase
2 of My
Planets, a fictive
memoir in multimedia is currently under
development.
David has a strong background in corporate work, having served as a publishing
manager and technical and scientific editor for a number of organisations,
as well as a publishing consultant in North America and Australia. His more
recent interest in digital publishing and multimedia stems from a lifelong
preoccupation with interdisciplinary artforms. His background as a lecturer
at tertiary institutions for many years in creative and professional writing,
as well as his active pursuits of projects in emerging artforms, has led him
to be much in demand at festivals and conferences in Australia and overseas
as a reader or demonstrator of his own work, a workshop leader, and a mentor.
IP’s current blend of print and digital
projects is a realisation of David’s vision that New Publishing
enterprises need to be streetwise, efficient and responsive to changing
tastes of
the reading
[and the viewing/listening] public.
Contact Dr Reiter
Lauren Elise Daniels, Prose Editor
Lauren joined IP in December ‘04 in the capacity of
Prose Editor. She is currently an independent manuscript assessor, a freelance
writer and a teacher of both creative and corporate writing for the University
of Queensland, TAFE and Stafford Adult Ed.
A veteran of the publishing industry, she spent seven of her formative years
working as Executive Assistant to the President of Ziff-Davis Publishing
after receiving her BA in Writing in ’92. In ‘99 she completed
her thesis, Crossing Sakonnet, a thematic collection of memoirs, and attained
her Masters in Creative Writing with Emerson College in Boston.
Lauren’s published portfolio includes essays, poetry, reviews, fiction
and creative non-fiction for newspapers, magazines, digital media, literary
journals and commercial sources, with various samples appearing on her website.
She brings her editing skills and publishing experience in a supportive effort
to ensure IP authors attain the success
that they deserve.
Anna Bartlett, Assistant Editor, Children's Titles
Anna Bartlett completed her degree in Creative Writing at QUT in 2008. She has always been passionate about reading and writing, and is excited by the many opportunities that working at IP presents her with. As Assistant Editor for Children’s Titles, she is able to work in an area of special and ongoing interest to her – children’s books have always appealed to Anna, and probably always will!
Anna’s dream is to write children’s and YA novels. Well, in her spare time she already does this; her dream is to see them published. She enjoys book shopping, reading and writing (of course) and is always running out of space on her bookshelves. If she is ever rich enough, she will build a house with a very large library.
Joanne Brennan, Assistant Editor, Prose
Joanne arrived at IP in early 2009 from a unique angle; she is currently completing her final semester at the University of Queensland, majoring in Philosophy and Political Science.
Working in the internship program at IP has thrust her into an exciting, new and previously unexplored world. Honest, brutal and genuine prose provides an escape from the often intellectually-dry world of philosophy and the study of people’s drive for political power.
Jo particularly enjoys providing objective feedback to authors and the challenge of creating conceptual/plot/character cohesion within a manuscript. She sheepishly admits the editing process, on a micro-level, is strangely therapeutic. There’s something about finding (and then correcting) that loose comma…
In terms of the future, Joanne has no certain plans. She is enjoying studying and aims to undertake an additional year in the Honours program, with a particular focus on Continental, political and social-policy based philosophy. Ultimately, she loves words for their power and ability to influence/mould/express/create/radicalise and destroy. For now, at least, she is just enjoying the ride.
Laura Simpson, Assistant Editor, Promotions
Laura joined the IP team in 2009. An avid reader, she started her
writing career at the age of four, with a ten line story about an evil
stepmother and two ugly sisters. She has since learned the meaning of plagiarism, and discovered the joy of bringing to life the creative
work of others.
Laura studied creative writing and languages at QUT before tackling
her other passion: travel. She has lived in Tokyo, Holland, England
and France, and travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia and
Manhattan. She’s been back in Australia for almost three years now,
and after a brief study of linguistics and TEFL training, thought it
was about time she put her university degree to good use.
Bringing experience from years in the media industry, Laura has come to the book publishing industry to develop her skills and return to her true passions of writing, editing and publishing.
Contact Laura
Stephanie Cairns, Assistant Editor, Multimedia Titles
Stephanie is currently completing her final year at the Queensland University of Technology in a Bachelor of Creative Industries majoring in Communication Design and doing a sub-major in Advertising. She joins the IP team through the Workplace Learning program organized by QUT and looks forward to a productive semester in a new environment. While Stephanie came into her studies with an aim to further her graphic design skills, her interest in editing has remained has remained consistent from her Film and TV studies at school.
She might not mean to, but Stephanie does judge a book by its cover design. She has a passion for graphic design as well as finding inspiration by the combination of text an audio in animated form. She hopes to gain a new perspective into publications in all forms and a greater appreciation for the written and spoken word.
Katharina Schmelzer, Assistant Editor, Promotions
Katharina joined IP as a Marketing and Promotions Assistant intern. She is currently in her last semester at QUT, studying a dual degree in International Business and Creative Industries, majoring in Media and Communications. She has always been passionate about reading and writing, and loves to immerse herself in fantasy stories.
Katharina is excited about being given the opportunity to work at IP, and is hoping to squeeze as much learning as possible into her internship with the company. Hoping to pursue a career in publishing, she is looking forward to learning about all sides of the publishing industry and finally being able to put all the University theory work into practice.
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