Email: kathkovac@gmail.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/KathKovacEditor
I am a freelance editor of award-winning children's nonfiction books. Get in touch if you are a publisher or author who wants to make your manuscript shine!
Substantive and copy editing, proofing (in Word and on designed PDFs), manuscript assessments, planning, writing and editing workshops.
Biological and natural sciences, environment, general science.
Children’s nonfiction picture books and chapter books, in prose and rhyming text.
Polar Eyes: An Antarctic Journey by Tanya Patrick (CBCA Eve Pownall Book of the Year 2010)
Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect by Rohan Cleave (Honour Book, Th CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2016)
Bouncing Back by Rohan Cleave (Winner, The Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature 2019: non-fiction)
On the Trail of the Plains Wanderer by Rohan Cleave (Notable Book, The CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2023)
Songlines: First Knowledges for younger readers by Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly
Windcatcher: Migration of the Short-tailed Shearwater by Diane Jackson Hill (Notable Book, CBCA Picture Book of the Year 2020)
A Hollow is a Home by Abbie Mitchell
The Way of the Weedy Seadragon by Anne Morgan (Notable Book, CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2020)
The Forgotten Song by Coral Vass (Notable Book, CBCA Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2024)
Swifty by Stephanie Owen Reeder
Wonderful Wasps by Katrina Germain
Poo, Spew and other Gross Things Animals Do by Nic Gill and Romane Cristescu
Imagining the Future: Invisibility, Immortality and 40 Other Incredible Ideas by Simon Torok and Paul Holper
BSc (Hons), PhD
Most of the books I have edited have won or been shortlisted for national awards. These include the CBCA Picture Book of the Year; the CBCA Eve Pownall Book of the Year; The Wilderness Society's Annual Environment Award for Children's Literature; the Royal Zoological Society of NSW Whitley Awards; and the MARION ACT Notable Book Awards
Editorial consultant, CSIRO Energy Technology