Sunrise Setting is looking for somebody to work with us full-time – partly here in Brixham and partly from home – to manage production workflows for academic journals and books, making sure we maintain high editorial standards, meet deadlines and stick to budgets. If that sounds like it could be you, you’ll find more information here.
Free sample manuscript assessment
If you’re a publisher who’ll be at the IPG Autumn Conference in London next week (17 September) and you’re thinking about using manuscript assessment to maximise your editorial budget, why not come and have a chat with IPG supplier Sunrise Setting.
We’re offering attendees a free sample manuscript assessment, which combines Lumina Datamatics’ MARS tool and our own checks to recommend: 1) the level of copy-editing required and 2) either an onshore or an offshore copy-edit, the latter together with onshore quality control.
You’ll find more details here – and we hope we’ll see you on Tuesday.
‘What makes it work for us is the flexibility’
In the spirit of BookMachine Campus, ‘a community for curious publishing professionals’, we’re sharing a clip from a BookMachine conversation between Sunrise Setting’s Jessica Stock, Cambridge University Press’s Katy McIntosh, BookMachine’s Aimee Dewar and Lumina Datamatics’ Deborah Harman, all about using onshore and offshore services in tandem.
You can access the full conversation here, along with other online resources and events, by signing up to Campus. And if, like CUP, you’d like to talk to Sunrise Setting about picking and choosing onshore and offshore services, we’ll be at London Book Fair next week, 12–14 March, on stand 3B19, on the first floor.
Talk to just one company about onshore and offshore
As Lumina Datamatics’ onshore editorial and project-management division, Sunrise Setting is the only company you need to talk to in order to integrate onshore and offshore services.
Elsewhere on the site we’ve highlighted four of the ways in which specialist onshore editorial and project management work really well with offshore streamlining to improve turnaround times, author satisfaction and, ultimately, the bottom line. We’ll be talking more about these at London Book Fair – just come and see us on stand 3B19, or email us beforehand at enquiries@sunrise-setting.co.uk.
Onshore and offshore: a #BookMachine discussion
Join our own Jessica Stock this Thursday (13 April), when she’ll be talking with Katy McIntosh of Cambridge University Press & Assessment and Lumina Datamatics’ Deborah Harman about onshore and offshore services for academic publishers, including how CUP are currently making the most of both.
The event is part of #BookMachine’s series of briefing discussions, and it’s free to attend. Just register here.
See you on stand 3B19
London Book Fair 2023 will be a first for Sunrise Setting: we’ll be exhibiting as part of Lumina Datamatics.
Plus ça change… just as in previous years, we’re looking forward to talking about how we can help you with book and journal copy-editing and project management. And this year we’re especially keen to talk about developmental editing, something we’ve found ourselves doing more of in response to both publishers’ and individual authors’ requests. We’d be happy to talk about educational publishing, too, as we’re currently project managing exam papers and apprenticeship syllabuses (or, if you’d sooner, syllabi) for customers, as well as copy-editing textbooks.
Just drop us a line before the show if there’s anything you’d like us to think about in advance. And see you on stand 3B19, which is on the first floor.
London Book Fair 2022
Time and the pandemic: the former has always gone by in the blink of an eye, but one of the latter’s milder conditions has been thinking otherwise, that time’s just trundling along.
Or: how is London Book Fair less than a month away?
If you’ll be there with an eye on increasing or diversifying your onshore copy-editing or project-management capacity, it’d be great to see you. Our stand is part of the IPG’s bigger stand (6E70/7E50), and we’ll be there on all three days.
On the first of those, the Tuesday, there are two people offering to get a grip on time. Shame the afternoon will probably have disappeared before we remember.
Developmental editing
Our editorial work with BCS, the Chartered Institute of IT, includes more than copy-editing. When required, we work with their authors at an earlier stage of the process, helping them to develop their manuscripts – for example, to define clearly the aim of a book and each of its chapters before setting about achieving them. Is the target reader being served as well as possible, not only in terms of the overall structure but the specifics of the material. Is there too much detail? Is there too much context? Is it sufficiently focused or have topics been mixed? Has everything been explained and justified?
The title pictured above is one that we helped to develop editorially last year, as well as taking it through to final print- and online-ready files – a rare case of project managing Project-Management.
Volume 1, issue 1
Congratulations to Juliano Fiori and his colleagues on the launch of the Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, which it’s been a pleasure for us to help out with. The new journal is hosted jointly by The Humanitarian Affairs Team at Save the Children UK, Centre de Réflexion sur l’Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires MSF (Paris) and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester – and you can read more, including the issue itself, at manchester openhive, the home of Manchester University Press’s Open Access content.
The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance
Not a Performance review, just a couple of photos of the book, which we enjoyed project managing and copy-editing. It’s available here – and the very best of luck with it to Daniel, Kristina and Misty.
Welcome to Sunrise Setting 