Louise Brand - Translator

Project management of various titles for the African market from manuscript phase up to submission and/or real book. This includes commissioning of editors, illustrators, proofreaders, indexers, etc, and managing the process within budget and on deadline. Quality control. Problem solving.

Project management of various titles for the African market from manuscript phase up to submission and/or real book. This includes commissioning of editors, illustrators, proofreaders, indexers, etc, and managing the process within budget and on deadline. Quality control. Problem solving.

Project management of various Afrikaans language titles (novels, poetry anthologies, short story anthologies) for the South African senior schools market from manuscript phase up to submission. This included commissioning of editors, illustrators, setters, proofreaders, indexers, etc, and managing the process within budget and on deadline. Quality control. Problem solving.

Freelance Publishing Services:

Project Management; Editing; Translating; Proofreading; Writing (and over-writing)
Reporting; Photography
Recent work: Proofreading of English titles for NB Publishers, eg. Gang Town; Roughing It

Service included:
News reporting, news & media releases, newsletters, magazine articles, columns, web articles, speeches, copywriting, promotional writing, graphic design for newspapers & magazines, copy editing, proofreading, translating, research, reports, and more

Promotions Coordinator:

Meeting with advertising clients, gathering information, photography
Writing advertorials
Translating advertorial copy
Layout
Organising, launching and handling competitions
Getting sponsors and liaising with them
Organising hand-over of prizes
Organising functions
Promoting new book releases in the newspaper with write-ups and sms-competitions

Proofreading:

Display advertisements; Internal communication of Marketing Department

Copy writing:

Internal marketing material for supplements and features
Advertising material for competitions
Advertorials

Journalism:

Writing of editorial content for features and supplements
Research, interviews, photography, layout

Reporting on news in the Velddrift area on the SA West Coast; Photography. Interviewing. Also page layout 2 days of the week in the office.

Reporting on crime, local government, human interest, business, entertainment, sports, schools, events and more

Photography. Page layout. Copy editing. Proofreading.

Louise started the business and managed it for the period mentioned. This included managing editorial content, ad sales, graphic design - advertisements and page layout, human resources, creditors and debtors, print orders as well as distribution and PR.

Louise started her second period at Ons Kontrei handling a small ad-booklet, Die Snuffeltjie. She covered a range of tasks including ad sales, graphic design (Corel Draw), liaising with clients, copy writing, presenting proofs to clients and doing page layout. The editorial content was also thought out, resourced, written and designed by her. When other sales staff resigned, she automatically moved into ad sales for the newspaper once again. With only one graphic designer on duty (with a heavy work load), Louise continued doing copy writing, designing her own ads, taking photographs, writing advertorials, sending proofs to clients, as well as doing page layout.
Although not officially a journalist, she continued writing articles when coming across an interesting news story.

Louise started as a junior journalist, ad representative and layout artist. The business was small and so was the staff; so multi-tasking was part of the job. She wrote community news stories – from local school news, sports and municipal news to crime, news of the wine industry and business news. She sold advertisements to local businesses and was responsible for page layout as well. She worked in Vredendal and surrounding areas including the towns of Lutzville, Klawer, Vanrhynsdorp, Citrusdal, Clanwilliam, Lamberts Bay and as far north as Springbok in the Northern Cape. The job taught her to work as part of a team as well as independently and to adhere to deadlines.