editing


Heather Ebbs has been a substantive, stylistic and copy editor and proofreader since 1979, when she began work for a Canadian military history publisher between her third and fourth years of university. She rejoined the firm on graduation, and moved on to freelance editing in 1985.
Experience
  • Substantive, stylistic and copy editor and proofreader since 1979
  • Winner of the 1986 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence
  • In-house editing with Canada's Wings Inc., managing all aspects of publication for books and journal
  • Freelance editing since 1985
  • Managing Editor, Canadian Journal of Optometry, 1991-2001
  • Guest Editor, The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing, December 2011
  • Clients have included CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), Canada Post, Canadian Ophthalmological Society, Canadian Nurses Association, Aviation Quarterly, Canadian Dental Association, Canadian Marconi Company, Nortel, Canadian Pharmaceutical Association, National Museum of Civilization, Canadian Professional Coaches Association, participACTION, Spirit of Sport Foundation, Strachan Tomlinson, CIET Canada, Canadian Conservation Institute, The Alder Group, Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport, National Museum of Science and Technology, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Council for Organ Donation and Transplantation and more
  • President, 1990–91 and 1991–92, Editors' Association of Canada
  • Honorary Life Member, EAC, awarded at the AGM on 26 May 2018
  • Judge, 1987, 1996, 2010, Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, EAC
  • Judge, 1994, Technical Publications Competition, Society for Technical Communicators 
  • Participant, Editors' Association of Canada, various committees including Certification, Membership and more
  • Instructor, 2009–present, University of California Berkeley, Indexing: Theory and Application
  • Lecturer and advisor, 1989–1994, Book Editing, Banff (formerly Toronto) Publishing Workshop
  • Instructor, 1987–1991, Algonquin College, Ottawa, Publications Production
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"Thank you to ... My editor, Heather Ebbs, for her sense of humour, breadth of knowledge, work ethic, and attention to detail. She did everything and more in preparing the manuscript for publication."
                                                                                      Sheila Robertson, author
                   Shattered Hopes: Canada's Boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games (2012)