Palden
Jenkins

Palden Jenkins

Editor, author,
publishing consultant

16 Chilkwell Street
Glastonbury
Somerset BA6 8DB
England
tel 01458-834576
(*44-1458-834576)

I'm very good at turning something promising into something special, making sense out of a mess. I can be left to sort things out or I can work in a team.

Have you thought of communicating both in print and on Internet? I do both.

Editorial services
Contract writing
Wordsmithery
Publishing consultancy

These are my main strengths:
* extensive English vocabulary
* considerable general knowledge
* originality, meticulousness and thoroughness
* brilliant ideas, sense of trends and publishing strategy
* an ability to make manuscripts work and shine
* speciality in mind-body-spirit, history, social and environmental issues and geopolitics
* sound discernment concerning quality of ideas
* Internet abilities

I have worked in many branches of the book trade, including running bookstores, printing, writing, copywriting, editing, running websites and advising publishers and authors.

Available in a freelance or a longer-term capacity, and can work happily via e-mail at a distance.

Assignments can include:
* copy- and sub-editing books
* contract writing or ghost-writing
* manuscript improvement and adaptation
* advising publishers on the publishability and worth of manuscripts
* supervising authors
* encyclopedias and tomes
* website setup, improvement and maintenance
* longer-term special assignments

I am a polymath and a wide-ranger with a strong sense of perspective and of the 'big picture'. My special expertise lies in history, current affairs, geopolitics, social issues, metaphysics and alternative ideas. In these I have a 30-year pedigree, and I am well-known as a teacher, conference speaker and contributor of new, broad-sweeping and valuable perspectives.

List of books edited 1989-1999

Number codes in parentheses indicate the level of editing involved.
Key:
1. Copy-editing and typesetting instructions; 2. Significant textual changes and improvements;
3. Significant checking and improvement of ideas and communicability;
4. Secondary translation or significant cutting, modification and rewriting;
5. Writing commentaries and editing transcripts, and compiling a complete book.

~ How to Be Happy, John Pepper, Gateway, 1991. [1].
~ Getting Through to You – a self-help course in communication skills, Alex Howard, Gateway, 1991. [1]
~ The Vortex - reconciling mystery and matter, David Ash and Peter Hewitt, Gateway, 1991. [1].
~ Diary of an Unborn Child - a baby speaks from its mother's womb, Manuel David Coudris, Gateway, 1992. [4].
~ The Sacred Magician - a ceremonial diary, William Bloom, Gothic Image Pubs, 1992.
~ Crop Circles – harbingers of world change, ed. Alick Bartholomew, Gateway, 1992. [4].
~ Ciphers in the Crops - fractal and geometric circles of 1991, ed Beth Davis, Gateway, 1992. [1].
~ Jesus and the Essenes - fresh insights into Christ's ministry and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dolores Cannon, Gateway, 1993. [1].
~ Exploration into God – a personal quest for spiritual unity, Sir George Trevelyan, Gateway, 1992. [1].
~ A Search for the Historical Jesus – from Apocryphal, Buddhist, Islamic and Sanskrit texts, by Prof Fida Hassnain, Gateway, 1994. [4].
~ They Walked with Jesus – past life experiences with Christ, by Dolores Cannon, Gateway, 1994. [1]
~ The Only Planet of Choice – essential briefings from deep space, by Phyllis Schlemmer, compiled by Palden Jenkins, Gateway, first edition, 1993. [5]
~ Avoiding Ecological and Social Disaster – the politics of transformation, by Rudolf Bahro, Gateway, 1994. [4].
~ Truth Vibrations - prophetic visions from a TV celebrity turned visionary, by David Icke, new edition, Gateway, 1993. [2]
~ Behind the Masks - discovering your true self, by Jean Bond, Gateway, 1993. [3]
~ When the Earth nearly died – compelling evidence of a world cataclysm 11,500 years ago, by Derek Allen and Bernard Delair, Gateway, 1994. [2].
~ You Don't Have to Feel Unwell – nutrition, lifestyle, herbs and homeopathy, by Robin Needes ND SRN, Gateway, 1994. [2].
~ Heal the World - a do-it-yourself guide to planetary transformation, by David Icke, Gateway, 1994. [2]
~ Cosmic Connections - worldwide crop-formations and ET contacts, by Michael Hesemann, Gateway, 1995. [1].
~ Living Energies - the Schaubergers' insights into Nature's laws, Callum Coats, Gateway, 1996. [2].
~ The Stone of the Plough – the secret of Cheops, by Ann Walker, Element, 1997. [3]
~ Ecotechnology by Viktor Schauberger, tr by Callum Coats, Gateway, 1997. [3]
~ Crystal Journey Ivan MacBeth, to be published. [3]
~ The Kingfisher Children's History Encyclopedia, new edn, Kingfisher, 1999. [5]
~ The Spiritual Onyame, Norman Barnett, 2002 [1/3]
~ The Secret Founding of America Nicholas Hagger, 2006 [3]