Hello moderator,
One of your members introduced this cite to me and I am finding it interesting. its good to have a forum like this where views can be exchanged and matters dissected for the benefits of all. I tried locating the right place to place post a subject. I hope this is the right place

Let me use this opportunity to invite anybody and everybody who is interested in literature, Book Editing, Magazine or Newspaper Publication to read message below. You should be interested anyway.

The Committee For Relevant Art (CORA) is working, in partnership with Bookbuilders Limited in Ibadan, on a workshop for Book Editors. The event will run from November 6 to 8, 2007, at Ocean View Restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos.  The workshop is the secon d attempt by CORA to engage in capacity building for the Book industry.  The idea of the workshop is to develop a generation of fully trained book editors who are envisaged to energize the book industry with the editorial skills that are so lacking in current literary and scholarly books.  In hardly any of the few operating publishing houses is there a book editor of redoubtable skill and renown. “Indeed, so negligible is the impact of editors on the few books that are published that nobody makes the ordinary connection between editing and the quality of a published book”, according to the CORA proposal.  Mrs Chris Bankole, the key facilitator (and an American turned Nigerian), and Mrs Sherifat Oladokun, both of Book Builders Limited, a highly regarded firm of book editors, will give closed-session lectures, seminars, and tutorial-style meetings. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in practical demonstration of how a book is worked on. They will learn about the role of the editor in relation to the publisher, agent, and author, and the differences between a newspaper editor and a book editor. There will be illuminating  conversations on a range of topics including Initial assessment of a book, Copy Editing, Substantive editing, Proofreading, Indexing, Cover design,   Grammar and useage, cliches, Nigerian malapropisms. It will also look at challenges in editing creative writers; both of children and adult fiction, as well as Scholarly/ tertiary publishing / research vs university, textbooks. Participants, who will pay 10,000 naira for three days (which covers tuition, course materials, tea/snacks, lunch, certificate and group photograph) will be taught Footnote / reference styles, publications of Newsletters / flyers / brochures as well as how to handle tables / diagrams / maps etc. “The experience is not substitute for a sustained academic program in publishing”, the proposal reads. But we hope that participants will gain a lot from this workshop to develop career interest in book publishing. The organizers look forward to hearing from such large (mostly erstwhile multinational ) publishers such as McMillan, Longmans, Evans, as well as homegrown, midsized companies including Spectrum, Africana, 4th Dimension, Litramed. The workshop will be particularly useful for emerging companies like  Farafina, New Gong, Cassava Republic, BookKraft, Kraft Book . Perhaps the major beneficiary from this sort of learning would be people between ages 22-40,  preferably university graduates or those in the final semester of their bachelor programs, with demonstrable interest in reading and writing.

In attendance in the first were participants from around the country including the Federal Inland Revenue Service and many other organizations including staffers of reputable publishing firms. Students and graduates of not necessarily English and\or literature were also present.

For more details pls contact me:
wale Omotoye on 08036663518 or
write to geewale@yahoo.com or better still lets discuss it on Naira land
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