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Editing Illustrated Books

Dates:

A two-day course

01 November 2012

Price:

£755+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre,

All courses are scheduled to run from 9.30am to 5.00pm at Book House in Wandsworth, Southwest London
(see a map and a list of local hotels)

Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

"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

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Copy-Editing

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

These include:

additional scheduling
writing and editing captions
briefing artwork and photography
checking page design
liaising with the media, 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 illustrated matter easier to manage.

Programme

Day One

Publishing sequence
Scheduling
Budgeting
Editing for international, co-editions, multiple markets
Introduction to illustrations: vocabulary, purposes and types
Illustration lists
Working with picture researchers
Working with designers

Day Two

Flat planning
Briefing and checking artwork
Commissioning photos
Choosing photos; cropping
Writing captions
Checking illustrated proofs
Cutting
Filling
Adjusting pages
Permissions, credits, copyright.

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, commissioning editors and freelancers.

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 short courses can also be run as in-company events.

Dates: 01 November 2012
Duration: A two-day course
Price: £755+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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