Emma Driver – Editor

Are you working on a non-fiction project? If you’re looking for an editor for a factual text – memoir, biography, history, comic musings, instructional text, art monograph or general non-fiction – I’ll be very happy to discuss your work with you.

➡️ What can I do for you?

• Structural and development editing

• Copy editing

• Writing and rewriting

I can also help with research, converting text to British/Australian or American English, formatting text for designers, fact-checking, and managing endnotes and references in a range of formats.

Currently I’m not taking on proofreading jobs.

➡️ What kinds of subjects?

I’m especially interested in areas like music, comedy, literature, history, art, First Nations cultures and histories, birds and wildlife, psychology, popular science, food, education, the law, health, politics and current affairs.

I’ve worked on books by a wide range of authors including:

• Professor Richard Scolyer, 2024 Australian of the Year

• Bob Carr, former Foreign Minister of Australia and NSW Premier

• Lucie Morris-Marr, Walkley Award–winning journalist

• Virginia Haussegger, Australian journalist and broadcaster

• Professor Kerryn Phelps, Australian activist and former federal MP

• Jeff Apter, music biographer

• Katherine Wiles, Australian–NZ opera singer

• Melissa Doyle, presenter and journalist, and Naima Brown, author and TV producer

• Professor Clive Hamilton, public intellectual

• Professor Inger Mewburn, ‘The Thesis Whisperer’

• Dr Terri Janke, Indigenous (Wuthathi/Meriam) lawyer

• Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, Plastic Free July founder

• Alison Pouliot, photographer and ecologist

• John Smailes, motorsport journalist.

➡️ How will I communicate?

Respectfully! When there is respect on both sides of an editor–author relationship, everyone gets the best results. I want to help writers craft or polish their text for the audience they have in mind, and for the purpose they intend it.

➡️ Other details

I’m a professional member of Australia’s Institute of Professional Editors Limited (IPEd). My fees are calculated in Australian dollars (AUD).

Before freelancing, I worked in legal publishing (Butterworths/LexisNexis Australia), then in educational publishing, overseeing books from preschool to tertiary level.

I have a particular interest in anything to do with music or comedy, and I subedit and write regularly for the Australian print magazine and website Women In Pop.