Our skilled editors offer a range of editing services and can assist with projects large and small, ranging from community histories to private projects, including family histories and personal memoirs.

The HistorySmiths team combines the talents of dedicated editors, proofreaders and indexers whose professional experience and passion for words ensure a polished written product with a minimum of distracting errors.

Substantive editing involves reviewing the structure, content and style of your text to make sure your writing flows. Consultation between editor and author ensures clarity, completeness and readability.

Copyediting is the systematic process of checking your text for grammar, punctuation, frequently misused words, and clarity and consistency of writing style, in addition to checking for typographical and spelling errors. It may also involve ensuring that the tone of the writing is appropriate for its intended audience.

Proofreading involves checking the proof from the printer to make sure that all changes have been made and no mistakes have crept in, thereby avoiding costly printing errors.

Indexing is a skilled task, unique to each book. An index is an essential tool to the researcher and a great gift to the reader.

For select projects, we offer a complete publishing service which includes:

• Advice and collaboration on book design, layout and finishing touches

• Design

• Indexing

• Pre-press tasks such as checking sets of page-proofs

• ISBN and Cataloguing-in-Publication data

• Printing onshore or offshore as appropriate

• Publication using HistorySmiths imprint (optional)

• Distribution via our online bookstore

• Advice on strategies to market your book 

HistorySmiths is a member of the Australian Publishers Association and the Small Press Network.