EDITING AND WRITING SERVICES IN EDMONTON
Robert Proudfoot of RGP Writing & Editing Services also offers editing and writing services in Edmonton and the surrounding area. For creative writing and scientific reports, we offer freelance writing and editing work. We are able to write and comment on a variety of themes. In July 2018, Robert Proudfoot started a tutoring service in English language and writing for adults or elementary to high school-aged students, through the Superprof program. Contact Robert at rgpwritingandeditingservices@gmail.com for more information.
AMATEURS ON SAFARI
“Amateurs on Safari”, published by Robert G. Proudfoot in June 2021 through PageMaster Publication Services Inc., is a travel memoir written by his mother, Norma Proudfoot (1926 to 2015) about their family’s December 1970 car camping expedition cover 6,500 km across East Africa between Lusaka, Zambia and Nairobi, Kenya. The memoir glimpses into African cultures (particularly the venerable Masai), and activities of dynamic new nations, but also encounters remnants of colonialism; learns about traditional trade between Africans, Arabs, and Indians, and centuries-old battles between Arab and Portuguese forces for control of East Africa; and reflects upon prehistoric artwork painted upon remote cliffs that depict ancient interactions between humans and animals. Norma offers poignant, often humorous observations about wild animals and birds. She refers to other intriguing books written about Africa, and honours German zoologists Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, who studied various animal species living within Ngorongoro Crater or Serengeti Plains, for conserving wildlife – a vision Norma appreciated, inspired by the natural beauty and resilience of the vast region’s many national parks. The family (including seven children aged 4 to 17) passed Mt. Kilimanjaro, but the magnificent, snowy summit of Africa’s highest mountain was photographed in 1971 when sons Gordon and Robert climbed there. More recent mountaineers report that Kibo’s glaciers have melted, due to global climate change. May today’s readers relish testimony from people who travelled through splendid Africa, 53 years ago!
ISBNs: 978-1-77354-299-7 (paperback); 978-177354-314-7 (eBook).
Publisher: PageMaster Publication Services Inc., Edmonton, Alberta. books@pagemaster.ca.
ENDURING ART, ACTIVE FAITH – 3 GENERATIONS CREATE! THE AUDIOBOOK
This audiobook version of “Enduring Art, Active Faith – 3 Generations Create!” was recorded by Robert G. Proudfoot in April 2023 through Audivita, with support from FriesenPress Inc. The audiobook is a short version of hardcopy book published by Robert G. Proudfoot through FriesenPress Inc. in February 2019, titled the same, where the audiobook is comprised of two short stories taken from the “Enduring Art, Active Faith – 3 Generations Create!” anthology, namely “The Guard” and “Half and Half”, written by Robert G. Proudfoot and Norma Proudfoot (1926 to 2015), respectively. “The Guard” focuses on an unlikely friendship that develops between an expatriate British schoolboy, James Greenburgh, and an African night watchman, Winter Banda, hired to the guard the Greenburghs’ home in Lusaka, Zambia, while James’ diplomat father is away in the United Kingdom, negotiating with Rhodesian and British governments and black nationalist groups, towards the transition to African majority rule for the break-away British colony during the turbulent early 1970s. In “Half and Half”, an aging military veteran re-examines the satisfying life he has gained despite difficulties experienced – even with worldly ongoing conflict, poverty, and want – after encountering a little boy during the Christmas season in a busy Edmonton shopping mall, who at so young, is already coping with disappointments and seeking answers for life’s complexities.
ISBN: 979-8-3689-8455-1
Retailers of Note: Audible at audiobooks.com/audiobook/enduring-art-active-faith/691697; and Awesound at https://awesound.com/a/enduring-art-active-faith.
Publisher/Recorder: Audivita. www.audivita.com; and FriesenPress Inc., Victoria BC. www.friesenpress.com.
ROBERT PROUDFOOT’S WRITING, EDITING, AND EDITORIAL RESEARCH CREDITS
A) List of Technical Writing Commissions
Topsoil Fertility Assessment; Agriculture Feasibility Report; and Supervision of Construction and Installation of a Clay Liner into the Irrigation Water Reservoir, Proposed Pine Plantations, Tree Improvement Centre near Drayton Valley, Alberta (NW10-51-07 W5M), for Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd.. May to October 2016.
Phase I and Detailed Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) Reports, 15351 & 15355 – 111 Avenue NW (Lot A, Block 2, Plan 3105 KS), Edmonton, Alberta, for 1311098 Alberta Ltd.. April to October 2020.
Phase I ESA Report and Post Reclamation Site Inspection and Vegetation Assessment at a Reclaimed, Former Gravel Pit Site in NE08-72-17 W4M, near Wandering River, Alberta, for Tyjen Enterprises Ltd.. June to October 2022.
Pre-disturbance Soil, Terrain, and Vegetation Assessment; Baseline Groundwater Assessment; Phase I ESA; and Land Capability for Agriculture Assessment; Proposed Commercial Clay Pit in SW19-51-22 W4M, near Looma, Alberta, for Farlinger & Associates Ltd.. December 2021 to January 2023.
B) List of Technical Editing Commissions
Reviewed and provided proposed edits/comments to Alberta Institute of Agrologists Revised Code of Ethics for Regulated Professional Members. July 2023.
C) List of Creative Writing/Editing Commissions
Enduring Art, Active Faith – 3 Generations Create! THE AUDIOBOOK is comprised of two recorded short stories: The Guard and Half and Half previously written by Robert or Norma Proudfoot and published in 2019 within the hard copy anthology by the same name. The Guard focusses on an unlikely friendship that develops between an expatriate British schoolboy and an African night watchman during the turbulent early 1970s in recently independent Zambia. In Half and Half, an aging military veteran re-examines the satisfying life he has gained despite difficulties experienced – even with on-going worldly conflict, poverty, and want – after encountering a disillusioned child during the Christmas season at a busy Edmonton shopping mall, who while so young, is already coping with disappointments and seeking answers for life’s complexities.
ISBN: 979-8-3689-8455-1
This audiobook was recorded by Robert Proudfoot and Audivita (www.audivita.com), and is available on-line through various retailers: Audible (audiobooks.com/audiobook/enduring-art-active-faith/691697); Awesound at (https://awesound.com/a/enduring-art-active-faith), Findaway Voices (www.findawayvoices.com), and Kindle Books (amazon.ca).
Amateurs on Safari, published by Robert G. Proudfoot in June 2021, is a travel memoir written in by his mother, Norma Proudfoot (1926 to 2015) about their family’s December 1970 car camping expedition covering 6,500 km across East Africa between Lusaka, Zambia and Nairobi, Kenya. The memoir glimpses into African cultures (particularly venerable Masai), and activities of dynamic new nations, but also encounters remnants of colonialism; learns about traditional trade between Africans, Arabs, and Indians, and centuries-old battles between Arab and Portuguese forces for control of East Africa; and reflects upon prehistoric artwork painted upon remote cliffs that depict ancient interactions between humans and animals. Norma offers poignant, often humorous observations about African wildlife, and promotes wildlife conservation, citing German zoologists Bernhard and Michael Grzimek, who studied various animal species living within Ngorongoro Crater or Serengeti Plains, for conserving wildlife. The family (including seven children aged 4 to 17) passed Mt. Kilimanjaro, but the magnificent, snowy summit of Africa’s highest mountain was photographed when climbed in 1971 by sons Gordon and Robert. More recent mountaineers report that Kilimanjaro’s glaciers have melted, due to global climate change.
ISBNs: 978-1-77354-299-7 (paperback); 978-177354-314-7 (eBook).
Publisher: PageMaster Publication Services Inc., Edmonton, Alberta. books@pagemaster.ca.
a) Mennonite Publications:
Shadow and Light. The Communicator, First Mennonite Church, Edmonton. January 15, 2018.
During COVID 19, Remember How Our Ancestors Struggled Through Other Pandemics, The MHSA Chronicle, Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta. March 2022.
b) Commercial or Professional Publications:
Teachers in My Family, News&Views, Alberta Retired Teachers Association. Winter 2022.
Can Environmental Professionals Think Outside the Box? Canadian Reclamation, Canadian Land Reclamation Association. Februay 27, 2022.