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 employ Brooke Butler, Emily Brinkworth, Anna Bartlett and Lilith Pasztor as Assistant Editors.
IP works with freelancers as required by the projects it takes on, especially for cover designs, 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.
Brooke Butler, Assistant Editor, Promotions
Emily Brinkworth, Assistant Editor, Poetry
Emily Brinkworth joined IP as an Assistant Editor in December 2007. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology, majoring in creative writing, journalism and public relations. Emily is passionate about poetry, creative non-fiction stories and script writing. She draws from a range of influences such as ‘indie’ music like Radiohead, Nirvana, The Pixies and Interpol, books like 1984 and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, art-house films like Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Garden State and Look Both Ways, political controversy, her relationships and her dreams.
Most of Emily’s writing explores her fascination with dreaming, how the mind works, questioning why you are the way you are, love, how society is controlled by the machine, the politics of fear and trying to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. She has done work experience at Briz 31 television station, part-time work at newsagencies and cinemas and tutors high school students in English. Career-wise, Emily hopes to pursue something in scriptwriting and hopefully one day write her own art-house movies and publish her own books. At IP, she is excited to learn more about script editing, liaising with authors and to gain knowledge from more experienced writers on the ‘art of writing’.
Anna Bartlett, Assistant Editor, Children's Titles
Anna Bartlett is studying Creative Writing at QUT, and will finish her degree at the end of 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.
Lilith Pasztor, Assistant Editor
Lilith Pasztor is from Germany. She joined IP as an assistant editor and specialist for German titles in 2008. Most of the time, she is "off to some other country", but in her time between travels, she studies Comparative Literature and English at the Free University of Berlin.
At age 16, she spent an exchange year in Australia (in Canberra, which is not as bad as they say). Ever since that, she kept on accidentally coming back, until she accepted that her fate is somehow irreversibly tied to this strange continent, where they invent things like Vegemite.
She loves to write and read, successfully refusing to settle down to a particular genre. She hopes that some day, someone will pay her to combine her two greatest passions, writing and travelling, and become a travel writer.
Lilith's previous work places range from manning phone lines in a call center, working on the website of a big German broadcasting station, to teaching English to primary school children in the jungle of southern Thailand. At IP, she is more than happy to contribute to the creation and publication of books (has there ever been a more important job?)
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