Business name
Swallow Books
Suburb
Halifax St
State/Territory
SA
Country
Australia
Mobile phone
0417 018 698
Email
meiyen@swallowbooks.com.au
Background
Mei Yen has worked in magazine, information research and book publishing environments. She has a keen interest in food writing and cooking - she has written for various Cheap Eats, Good Food Guides and Foodies' Guides over the years. She also ran her own publishing project - Brisbane's Budget Bites before moving to Tasmania. She spends her time these days as a freelance indexer, writer, editor and proofreader; blackberry wrangler and keen forager. She has indexed over 100 trade, scholarly and educational books and annual reports. She especially loves working on cookbooks, food and travel books, politics, arts and design, and Indigenous-inspired publications.
Qualifications
MA (Hons), BA(Asian Studies) (UWS)
Diploma in Editing and Publishing (Macleay College)
Diploma in Editing and Publishing (Macleay College)
Specific skills
Back of book indexing
Database indexing
Embedded XML indexing
Research
Writing
Proofreading
Editing
Accredited?
No
Broad subject categories
Arts and crafts and design, Business and economics and industry, Humanities, Lifestyle, Medicine and health sciences, Philosophy and religion, Science and technology
Materials and formats
Annual reports, Archives, Databases, Ebooks or Epubs, Embedded indexing or Linked indexing, Journals and magazines and newspapers, Letters and diaries and personal papers, Loose-leaf publications, Non-fiction books
Publishing categories
Trade, Scholarly and professional, Government, Educational
Software skills
SKY, XML embedded indexing
Languages other than English
Japanese, Bahasa Malaysia
Additional services
Editing, Mentoring, Proofreading, Research, Review of indexes, Maps and cartographic material, Technical and research reports
Recent publications indexed
Chemistry (Wiley, 2015)
Chemistry Core Concepts (Wiley, 2015)
Teaching the Arts (CUP, 2015)
Consumer Behaviour in Action (OUP, 2014)
Ethical Practice in Psychology (OUP, 2014)
Amina's Home Cooking (Penguin, 2014)
Australian-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Chemistry Core Concepts (Wiley, 2015)
Teaching the Arts (CUP, 2015)
Consumer Behaviour in Action (OUP, 2014)
Ethical Practice in Psychology (OUP, 2014)
Amina's Home Cooking (Penguin, 2014)
Australian-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Year joined
2008
Status
ACTIVE