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Website: www.johnarthursweet.online
Profile
I started copy editing in 1991 at Penguin Books in London, and have been a freelancer since 1993. I work primarily in trade publishing, editing both fiction and non-fiction, but if I have a “specialty,” it would be fiction, and particularly literary fiction. Among books I copy-edited in recent years are Giller Prize winner Washington Black (Esi Edugyan) and Giller nominees All the Colour in the World (C.S. Richardson), Stray Dogs (Rawi Hage), and Son of a Trickster (Eden Robinson); and GG winners Five Little Indians (Michelle Good) and Five Wives (Joan Thomas).
Particular areas of interest: LGBTQ fiction and non-fiction, theatre, trauma memoirs.
Editorial Skills
- Bilingual editing
- Canadianization
- Copy editing
- Editing translations
- On-screen editing
- Proofreading
- Stylistic editing
- Translation French to English
- Online editing
Media / Genres
- Anthologies
- Books art and photography
- Books children
- Books general
- Books self-help
- Books self-published
- Fiction
- Fiction mystery
- Plays and screenplays
- Poetry
- Trade non-fiction
Subjects
- Architecture
- Arts
- Biography
- Canada
- Cinema
- Culture
- Entertainment
- Europe
- Gender studies
- Grammar and linguistics
- History Canadian
- History
- Humanities general
- Leisure general
- Lifestyles
- Literature
- Politics
- Psychology and mental health
- Religion and spirituality
- Travel and tourism
- Indigenous
Working Languages
- English
- French
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