Welcome to Yarraboy Editorial Services

Polishing and perfecting your written words for clarity and impact

Getting it right, whatever you write

Words Are Our Business

Yarraboy Editorial Services brings decades of experience across all genres to telling your story for the greatest possible effect. Give your book or message clarity, power and impact.

Fiction to Fantasy

Editing manuscripts ready for agents, publishers and readers

Lives Now and Then

Bringing order and sparkle to stories of you and your family

Write to Impress

Making sure you look your best in everything you write

All written material needs editing – from full-scale novels, short stories and biographies to restaurant menus, mailouts, press releases and websites. Spellcheck is not enough. Effective communication requires the right words and phrasing. Incorrect word use, punctuation, grammar and spelling are major barriers to being understood. A professional editor simplifies technical language and eliminates jargon. Whatever you write, get it right. Engage a pro.

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Meet Your Expert Editors

My editing and writing experience ranges from reporting to feature writing and from columnist to editors on everything from trade, technical and professional journals to mass market magazines and daily newspapers. I have written and published five crime fiction novels and two family histories. For the past several years I have been editing full length fact and fiction books for major publishing houses.

Detailed and very professional editing

Peter Dornan,AM, author, In Search of Manhood

Very atmospheric writing . . . excellent dialogue

Exeter Novel Prize judges on Death
Comes by Drone

Thanks Tony, youre the best in the business

Elizabeth Jess, author, The Shape of a Life

My sincere gratitude for the exceptional work you’ve done on this manuscript.

Glen Loveland, Author, Beijing Bound

Proven Professional

In October 2008 I passed the inaugural examination of the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) to join Australia’s first cohort of fully accredited editors which was renewed in 2018 and 2023.

I am also an advanced member of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, a member of the Crime Writers’ Association and the Australian Society of Authors.

In 2016 I was one of eight crime writers worldwide selected for a residency at Canada’s prestigious Banff Centre for Excellence under the tutelage of bestselling authors Louise Welsh and Michael Robotham.

Latest From Our Blog – Books And Beyond

Thrills remain though we know who dunnit

The prime joy of reading crime fiction is puzzling out “who dunnit”. Yet here’s a thriller in which we know who the guilty parties are almost from the get go. And yet we are still happy to go along for the ride. Wondering where this horror journey can possibly end – and how many victims…

How cosy can cosy crime become?

Reading cosy crime at bedtime is better than any narcotic; a sure cure for insomnia. But sometimes the level of cosiness irritates rather than calms. Frustration with plot, characters or dialogue wakens rather than lulls, and sleep becomes a forlorn hope. Maybe it is a case of “you can have too much of a good thing.”…

Tabloid scandals ready-made for a modern Becky Sharp

The tabloid scandals of the UK’s recent history are prime fodder for the eponymous heroine of Becky. The chronicles of this razor-sharp young woman provide a lively modern version of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. They offer a sparkling antidote to the millions of words spilled by these seedy events. Their framework is clearly based on those…

CAE Melbourne,
Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing

Accredited Editor, Institute of Professional Editors, Australia

Professional Member, Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, UK

Member, Crime Writers Association, UK

Member, Australian Society of Authors