The best freelancers for hire in Australia

Joshua

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Digital Painter + Cover Designer for ✨Fantasy and 🚀SciFi - I read your manuscript and illustrate truly resonant covers - No AI

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Gaming & LitRPG, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Romantic Fantasy, Romance, Space Opera, and Historical Fiction.

Work experience:

• Freelance

Charlie

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Book designer with expertise in typesetting, inner layout and cover design for art, culture and design publications.

Genres: Art, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, History, Design, and Geography.

Work experience:

• Currency Design
• Restless Creative

Bradley

Sydney NSW, Australia

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I love all that books are and all that they can be. As an experienced book cover + internals designer I delight in bringing books to life.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Sports & Outdoors, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery & Crime, and Health & Wellbeing.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Simon & Schuster Australia

Amanda

Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Children’s book illustrator and book designer. I specialise in picture books and middle grade fiction and love to use texture and colour.

Genres: Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, and Middle Grade.

Work experience:

• Self-employed

Rachel

Lithgow NSW, Australia

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Award winning publisher, author and educator with 20 years experience in ghost writing, resource writing and curriculum development.

Genres: Children's, Fiction, Education & Reference, and Non-Fiction.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Elsevier
• Cengage
• Sydney Symphony Orchestra
• Word Travels
• Currency Press

Bridget

Melbourne, Australia

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I'm an accredited editor with experience at Lonely Planet, an interest in travel and self-help writing and an addiction to reading.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Travel, and Nature.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Lonely Planet
• Dorling Kindersley Publishing, UK

Julia

Sydney NSW, Australia

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Helping authors bring their important message to the world by designing covers that SELL, through bold, colourful, impactful cover designs.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Career Guides, Parenting & Families, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Work experience:

• Self-employed

Laura

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Book cover designer and typesetter with extensive trade publishing experience, creating professional, market-aware designs.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Story, Women's Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Biographies & Memoirs, and Psychology.

Work experience:

• Penguin Books Australia
• Scribe Publications
• Self-employed

Peter

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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I'm an award-winning book cover designer, looking to work with you to create a beautiful, individual and distinctive book.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Plays & Screenplays, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Political Science & Current Affairs, Entertainment, and Art.

Work experience:

• Self-employed

John

Australia

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25 years experience in editing all subjects. Memoir, Biography, History, Politics, Arts and Literature expert, and some Fiction editing too.

Genres: Entertainment, Non-Fiction, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Law, Sociology, Art, Biographies & Memoirs, and Political Science & Current Affairs.

Work experience:

• Self-employed

Linden

Brisbane QLD, Australia

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Experienced copyeditor specialising in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Previous clients include Wiley and Macmillan.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Education & Reference.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Wiley Australia
• Australian Academic Press

Karin

Brisbane QLD, Australia

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A passionate 'generalist' who lives to learn, I've edited fiction and non-fiction for both indie and trade publisher clients for decades.

Genres: Nature, Non-Fiction, Life Sciences, Math & Science, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Picture Books, Children's, Science Fiction, Romantic Fantasy, and Romance.

Work experience:

• Self-employed
• Teach Starter Publishing
• Wildlife Australia Magazine
• Steve Parish Publishing
• LexisNexis/Elsevier Reed
• Bookmark Publishing
• Australian Geographic

Zena

Sydney NSW, Australia

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20yrs+ coaxing brilliant ideas into publishable SFF, thrillers, YA, women's, memoir, and inspirational books. I'm an author who *knows*.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller & Suspense, Women's Fiction, Young Adult, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Inspirational, and New Age.

Work experience:

• CCH Australia
• Simon & Schuster
• Rockpool Publishing
• Big Sky Publishing
• Northern Beaches Council
• MidnightSun Publishing, Encircle Publications, Major Street Publishing, Mosman Council
• Self-employed

Angela

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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I specialise in structural editing and advice. I'm experienced with crime/thrillers, hist fic, spec fic and literary. Former publisher.

Genres: Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short Story, Thriller & Suspense, and Science Fiction.

Work experience:

• Echo Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK

Sam

Sydney NSW, Australia

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Expert manuscript developer and editor. I specialise in literary fiction and nonfiction, and general / popular fiction and nonfiction.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Story, Thriller & Suspense, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, History, and True Crime.

Work experience:

• Brow Books
• Self-employed
• The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australia, The Saturday Paper
• University of Melbourne, Deakin University, RMIT University, Victoria University

Laura

Melbourne VIC, Australia

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Got a sticky plot hole? Misbehaving characters? An old-fashioned case of 'why isn't this manuscript working'? Let's figure it out together!

Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, and Women's Fiction.

Work experience:

• Affirm Press

Alex

Sydney NSW, Australia

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I am a publisher, editor, ghostwriter and content curator with 25 years' experience in almost every genre.

Genres: Women's Fiction, Fiction, Social & Family Issues, Young Adult, Holiday, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Health & Wellbeing, Contemporary Romance, and Romance.

Work experience:

• Self-employed