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ABOUT US


KATHY STEWART runs AUTHORS’ ALLY, which has an office at Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast, Australia, situated approximately eighty kilometres south of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland.

If you would like to contact us or visit us please email:
Kathy@authorsally.com

Phone:
Mudgeeraba office: +61 (0)7 5522 9334

Mobile:
+61 (0)415 536 546

27 Wallaby Drive
Mudgeeraba
Queensland
4213
Australia

KATHY wrote her first novel at the age of eight and knew from that day that she had found her muse. She entered and won many writing competitions while at school and walked off with the prestigious Five Aloe award for academic achievement in her final year. After majoring in History and English at university, her writing career took a back seat for many years while she raised her family and helped run the family farm. During this time she covertly wrote three novels, contributed to a local newspaper and had articles published in a national magazine.

Once their sons had completed university and left home, Kathy attended short courses in creative writing and writing for profit while working full time. She wrote a fourth novel while working for a publishing house and completed a course on editing and proofreading, graduating with straight As.

She is passionate about English and writing and takes pride in turning out faultless work. Her friends label her ‘the perfectionist’ and she’s not sure whether to be complimented or insulted. Do they really mean ‘pain in the neck’? But that’s what you want in an editor or proofreader – someone who will insist on getting it right – and that’s what Kathy does best.


EXAMPLES OF COMMON ERRORS IN MANUSCRIPTS


• Incorrect: The young man was effected by the alcohol and unable to affect a three-point turn.
• Correct: The young man was affected by the alcohol and unable to effect a three-point turn.
• Incorrect: There unlikely to find they’re shoes over their.
• Correct: They’re unlikely to find their shoes over there.
• Incorrect: I wander how long its been there.
• Correct: I wonder how long it’s been there.
• Incorrect: There were plenty of ships in the harbor to form the guard of honor. (correct in US English)
• Correct: There were plenty of ships in the harbour to form the guard of honour.
• Incorrect: At first I didnt’ recognize him and then I realized it was Annie’s brother. (last two correct in US English)
• Correct: At first I didn’t recognise him and then I realised it was Annie’s brother.
• Incorrect: “I saw your mother at the shops’. She said.
• Correct: ‘I saw your mother at the shops,’ she said.
• Incorrect: ‘What did you bring for the picnic? I bought sandwiches I made at home.’
• Correct: ‘What did you bring for the picnic? I brought sandwiches I made at home.'