An experienced copy editor, based in beautiful New Brunswick, with 25 years of service to Canada's thinkers and writers. Economic and social policy, political science, and general non-fiction are my specialties. Senior business people, labour leaders, federal and provincial politicians, civil servants, the national media, international scholars, and informed people everywhere read the publications I edit.



Editor of

The Top 100 Canadian Albums,
edited by Bob Mersereau
(Goose Lane Editions, 2007)

Finalist, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, 2008



Editor of

A Camera on the Banks,
by M. Brook Taylor
(Goose Lane Editions, 2006)

Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award — Non-fiction, 2007
Finalist, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, 2007



Editor and desktop publisher of

Signposts of Success:
Interpreting Ontario's Elementary School Test Scores
,
by David Johnson
(C.D. Howe Institute, 2005)

Runner-Up, Donner Prize for the best book on
Canadian public policy published in 2005–06

 

Editor of

The Right Fight:
Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma
,
by Jacques Poitras
(Goose Lane Editions, 2004)

Finalist, Atlantic Booksellers' Choice Award, 2005


Editor and desktop publisher of

Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy since 1991,
by David E.W. Laidler and William B.P. Robson
(C.D. Howe Institute, 2004)

Winner, Donner Prize for the best book on
Canadian public policy published in 2004–05

 

Desktop publisher of

Most Favoured Nation:
Building a Framework for Smart Economic Policy
,
by Jack M. Mintz
(C.D. Howe Institute, 2001)

Winner, Doug Purvis Memorial Prize
 for the best Canadian economic policy contribution in 2001

Runner-Up, Donner Prize for the best book on
Canadian public policy published in 2001


Editor and desktop publisher of

Social Canada in the Millennium,
by Thomas J. Courchene
(C.D. Howe Institute, 1994)

Winner, Doug Purvis Memorial Prize
 for the best Canadian economic policy contribution in 1994

 



Do you have a manuscript that needs polishing? Do you need to communicate the results of your research in a readable way that will get the attention of Canadian decisionmakers?

I have helped many of Canada's leading thinkers present their ideas to a broader, interested audience.

As the in-house editor and director of publications for one of Canada's most influential and respected think tanks for 18 years, I helped my writers, all of them leading authorities in their fields, turn their manuscripts into polished, published reports that made a significant contribution to debates on Canadian public policy issues.

My clients like the work I do, and my authors trust me to give their papers the sympathetic
but thorough going-over that will turn them into presentable documents.


Services


  • Structural editing
  • Stylistic editing
  • Mechanical copy editing
  • Proofreading
  • Fact checking
  • On-screen or traditional hard copy mark-up
  • Familiar with Word, QuarkXPress, QuattroPro, Excel

 

Contact me;
I look forward to
working with you!

 


Barry A. Norris
13 Brock Street
Lower Kingsclear, New Brunswick
Canada E3E 1M4
telephone; fax: (506) 363-2912
e-mail: ban@nb.sympatico.ca

 


 

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