Jon Peirce Ph.D. (English literature), M.I.R. (Industrial Relations)

I've recently retired from my job as a labour relations officer with a federal public service union. Retirement leaves me much more time for my writing--current projects include a novel and learning how to write literature for children--as well as for tennis, swimming, theatre, cooking, travel, and a host of other outside interests.

I'm currently rejigging my consulting practice to focus on preventive mentoring, guidance on memoir-writing, big-picture manuscript evaluation, and individual coaching as well as small-group workshops on a broad range of writing and editing topics. In my practice, my aim is to teach people how to edit their own work rather than have me do the job for them. Workshop and individual mentoring topics include: Conceptualizing the Book-Length Project, Writing and Time Management, Pseudo-Scientific Language, and Fun Writing for Stressed-Out People. I also offer introductory and advanced editing workshops and initial evaluation of book-length projects. Most recently, I have added a "quick query" service in which I answer very specific questions in half an hour or less.

Please phone or e-mail me for more information about the services I offer, or to discuss rates.

I have been writing and editing for four decades now. Highlights include:

• Publication of an introductory industrial relations text, Canadian Industrial Relations, now in its third edition with Pearson Education Canada (formerly Prentice-Hall Canada)
• Stints as a reporter and editor on daily newspapers in both Canada and the U.S.
• Twenty years' experience as a freelancer, including publications in the Christian Science Monitor, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Canadian Forum, Ottawa Citizen, Books in Canada, Kingston Whig-Standard, and Atlantic Provinces Book Review
• Experience teaching writing and editing workshops for OIW
• Five years' experience as a researcher-writer-editor for the Economic Council of Canada
• Service as senior researcher and writer on the Fryer Committee on labour-management relations in the federal public service