Publishing and editorial services

High Horse offers a comprehensive range of publishing and editorial services for the book trade, and for organisations and individuals.

• Project management, from manuscript to finished book
• Manuscript assessment and advice
  
• Structural and copy-editing
• Book design
  
• Advice on distribution, sales and marketing
• E-book services

 For more information or a quotation please  contact Russ Radcliffe

 

Russ Radcliffe is particularly interested in serious non-fiction for the general trade market including: international and domestic politics, history, biography, travel narrative, philosophy, and popular science.

Recent experience:

• Publisher, High Horse Books (since 2007)
• Editor of annual best-selling political year-in-review, Best Australian Political Cartoons (since 2003)
• Research consultant to National Museum of Australia's annual Behind the Lines exhibition, (since 2007)
• Non-fiction commissioning and acquisitions editor at Scribe Publications (2003–2007)
• Series commissioning editor for Scribe Short Books (2003–2007)
• Editorial mentor & publishing consultant, Melbourne University Writing Centre for Scholars — advising academics on how to transform their work into books for general readers
• Programming committee, Melbourne Writers' Festival (1999–2004)
• Board member, Australian Book Review (2001–2004)
• Judge, The Age Book of the Year 2002
• Judge, The Age Short Story Competition 2002
• Book reviewer