Editing Illustrated Books

Dates:

24-25 May & 10-11 November 2010 (a two-day course)

Price:

£719+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)

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"I have acquired excellent techniques for writing captions and how to discuss problems with designers. The course was excellent – just the right level of teaching and interaction with other delegates."

Random House delegate

If you edit illustrated books you need a range of extra skills to supplement those taught on the popular Copy-Editing Skills course.

These include:

scheduling
writing and editing captions
briefing artwork and photography
checking page design
liaising with media and picture researchers and designers
dealing with permissions and credits.

On this course you will be given expert guidance and tried and tested working methods that make projects involving illustrative matter easier to manage.

Programme

Scheduling and budgeting
Developing illustration lists
Working with picture researchers
Working with designers
Briefing and checking artwork
Choosing photos
Writing captions
Checking illustrated proofs
Cutting and filling
Adjusting pages
Multiple markets
Permissions and credits

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone who is involved in the development of published materials that include illustrations. This will include Editorial Assistants, Copy-editors, Desk Editors, Proofreaders, Development Editors and Commissioning Editors.

Your tutor

Sonia Clark has worked in editorial teams for several major UK and international educational publishers. In 2003 she started working as a freelancer. She now works as a freelance publishing trainer, copy-editor, proofreader, project manager and publisher. Sonia has experience of editing and publishing illustrated books, CD-ROMs and online materials on a variety of subjects at primary, secondary and tertiary level. She has run author workshops in the UK, Africa and the Caribbean and as a qualified teacher she has taught in schools and colleges in Hampshire at secondary and tertiary level.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.

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Dates: 24-25 May & 10-11 November 2010

Price: £719+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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