The Editing Company's Team
Our dedicated team of professionals can respond to all of your editing, proofreading, indexing, photo research, and copyright needs. Various aspects of your project can be handled simultaneously, with seamless internal communication. Collectively, we have edited over 400 book-length manuscripts, and we can accurately gauge the kind and extent of work required. Our outstanding track record proves that we deliver high-quality work, within budget, and on time. Here are the members of our team:
Beth McAuley, Owner & Senior Editor
Beth completed her master's degree in history at the University of Toronto in the 1980s, and shortly afterwards began her editing career. She crafted her editorial skills through professional courses at Ryerson University and the Editors' Association of Canada. Under the tutelage of academic authors and researchers, she learned the precise art of scholarly editing. She has edited for academic, trade, and educational publishers, and worked as an in-house managing editor. In 1997, she launched the successful Women's Issues Publishing Program with Sumach Press. Over the course of 12 years, she acquired, edited, and published 25 titles in the series. In addition, Beth can successfully seek out permission to reprint anything from newspaper articles and essays to poems and lyrics. She is proud to be the Senior Editor of such a dynamic team.
Nadine Bachan, Permissions & Non-Fiction Editor
When Nadine completed her undergraduate degree in Professional Writing at York University, she—like many of her fellow graduates—was left wondering, “What now?” After finding out that York’s literary magazine was being revitalized, she wrote to the Executive Editor. Because of that eager inquiry, Nadine spent the next year gaining invaluable experience as a fiction reviewer and the Submissions Editor for Existere: A Journal of Art & Literature. Nadine also began working as a writer and has since contributed to Lucid Forge, Side St. Review, and Press+1. In 2008, as the result of another cordial correspondence, Nadine began working at The Editing Company. At the office, Nadine finds that there is always something new to learn in editing, blog writing, literary permissions, and photo research. Outside the realm of TEC, Nadine writes, reads, and wonders how different her life could have been if it wasn’t for the power of a polite e-mail.
Nina Hoeschele, Academic & Non-Fiction Editor
Nina completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, where she realized that editing essays is even more fun than writing them. This led her to Ryerson’s Publishing Program and into editorial work for a number of publishers, publications, and individuals, including Oxford University Press, Descant magazine, and countless thesis writers. Since joining TEC in the winter of 2010, Nina has edited academic and non-fiction manuscripts, boiled books down into indexes, written posts for TEC’s blog, and wrangled plenty of footnotes. Outside of TEC’s office, Nina is also a freelance editor who works with academics and fiction writers alike. When discussing the delicate subject of alternative spellings, Beth once told Nina to “calm down.” Outside of editing, Nina is a compulsive writer and drawer, coffee drinker, and serial comma enthusiast.
Laura Cok, Assistant Academic & Non-Fiction Editor
Laura finished her master’s degree in English at the University of Toronto in 2011, an experience that taught her that she’d rather be involved in the shaping of literature than the study of it. As an undergrad, she helped edit and eventually took over Scarborough Fair, the campus literary journal, which gave her a taste for working with other writers as well as for proofreading obsessively. She is currently enrolled in Ryerson University’s Publishing Certificate program part-time, taking as many classes on editing as she can. She also pursues her own writing and has been recently published in The Claremont Review, Existere, Arc, and Contemporary Verse 2. When not hunting down errant commas, she writes for Chirograph (the blog associated with the Toronto Review of Books), bakes too many cupcakes, and works at a bookstore helping people track down titles based on the colour of the cover or when they saw it advertised on the subway.
Paul Eprile, Marketing & Communications
Paul has worked in book publishing for fifteen years, first with Between the Lines as Marketing Co-ordinator and Editorial Co-ordinator, and later with Canadian Scholars' Press/Women's Press as Publisher. Previously, he had worked with First Nations in Canada as an adult educator and in the South Pacific as a development planner. At TEC he is applying his ad writing skills and sharp eye for detail to TEC's marketing and communications projects.
Max Baru, Website & Social Media Co-ordinator
Max Baru completed his applied degree in computer programming & analysis at George Brown College in 2009. Since then he has worked within the publishing industry writing, editing, and recovering whole offices from technological bewilderment. He now studies literature and linguistics at York University, while building TEC's client database and developing the Company's newsletter and social media networks.
The Editing Company’s Business Editors Team
Beth McAuley has established a Business Editors Team to serve you better. In addition to excellent project management skills, our team offers solid business communication skills to sharpen each of your projects. Whether large or small, for the web or print, B2B or B2C, internal or external docs, our enthusiastic and experienced writers and editors will deliver polished work on time.
Kelly Lamb is a writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience in communications. Armed with a degree in English, she began her career as an entertainment writer with TV Guide Canada working in both the Toronto and LA offices. She then travelled to London, England, and worked for a communications firm where she handled the British Telecom (BT) and McAfee accounts. Upon her return to Toronto, she enrolled in Ryerson’s publishing program and was awarded the Marsh Jeanneret Memorial Award. Most recently, she has edited and written marketing materials for the Insurance Bureau of Canada, as well as evaluated and edited manuscripts for various authors and publishers in Canada and abroad.
Penny Tomlin has extensive experience in a broad range of business writing and editing. During more than 20 years as a communications professional, she has produced award-winning publications and a wide variety of material for all media. Penny has written and edited for newspapers, print and e-newsletters, magazines, and web sites. She has produced marketing and communications materials for corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-profit associations. Currently, Penny is managing editor of a national, bilingual magazine for interior design professionals. Penny has a degree in journalism and communications, and certificates in book editing and English language teaching.
Dawn Grimmer is a television producer, writer, and copy editor with almost 30 years’ experience in the media industry. Her specialty is copywriting and script writing; she has written numerous scripts for television in a variety of genres and has written promotional and instructional video scripts for many sectors of the corporate business world. Dawn has applied her expertise in copy editing and proofreading to publications that span business, golf and other sports, and human interest. Dawn is currently working in the strategic marketing and branding field. She writes proposals, outlines, and quotes for various projects and campaigns helping companies in the B2B, B2C, and not-for-profit sectors meet their marketing and communication goals.
