List of AB_Books' book and journal editorial services

Welcome to AB_Books!

My name is Abhijit Baroi. I am an editorial consultant, writer, and author and editor coach.

This site is meant to facilitate the book and journal editorial services I offer. The initial sections will provide you with an idea of my track record as an editor, how I am broadly perceived by authors as well as academic and professional colleagues, and my diverse education that has helped me acquire competency as an editor in a wide variety of subject areas and publishing domains. The following sections cover the services offered and my highly affordable charges for editing. As content development and assessment, publishing assistance, and author, editor, or book coaching are activities I undertake on a more case-by-case basis, I provide rates or quotes for them only after direct client interactions.

A request to all. As you may well understand, AB_Books is a solopreneurship or one-person venture. As such, I am responsible for everything you see here, both the good and the not-so-good. So, if you have any suggestions about this site or the services I offer, please feel free to send them over email to abhijitbaroi@editordeveloper.com. I look forward to your inputs.

Happy visiting!

Profile

Experience

20 years in publishing and editorial services. Worked in various positions in academic, reference, professional, and curriculum publishing firms as well as editorial services agencies

Major skillsets

Content editing, content assessment and development, content writing, proofreading, book and editor coaching and mentoring

Specialized skills

Well-honed research abilities, adeptness at using a wide range of information sources

Subject/topic areas

Psychology, sociology, social work, history, politics, gender studies, economics, and development studies
Engineering, computer science, and IT
Medical, physical, and biological sciences
Business and management
Literature and fiction
Nonfiction and general topics

Portfolio (select titles for reference; for a fuller list, please visit https://reedsy.com/abhijit-baroi)

1. Patel: Political Ideas and Policies

Eds. Shakti Sinha and Himanshu Roy

SAGE, 2019

2. Supervision and Professional Development in Social Work Practice

Amanda M. Nickson, Margaret-Anne Carter and Abraham Francis

SAGE, 2020

3. India’s Pursuit of Energy Security: Domestic Measures, Foreign Policy and Geopolitics

Ashok Sharma

SAGE, 2019

4. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy Integrated

Anjali Joshi and K. M. Phadke

SAGE, 2018

5. Limit State Design in Structural Steel

M. R. Shiyekar

PHI Learning, 2010

Testimonials

Abhijit Baroi is a skillful editor, writer, and proofreader, who is capable of making any written work that he reviews to end up much improved, with greater clarity, focus, and grammar. Abhijit is particularly skillful at detecting and correcting errors that many editors and proofreaders would overlook. He is easy to work with and completes his work in a timely manner. I highly recommend Abhijit Baroi to help with all of your editing and writing projects.

- Peter Davidson, author

Abhijit and I collaborated on the edited book entitled Tribal Development in India: Challenges and Prospects in Tribal Education, published by SAGE. As the editor handling the project, Abhijit was immensely helpful in keeping the content up-to-date and well-organized, liaising with contributing authors and obtaining timely delivery of chapters, ensuring timely reviews by external reviewers, and taking all other steps that ensured timely transmission of the project to the Editorial team and ultimately its publication. I highly recommend Abhijit for all editorial projects.

- Ravindra Ramesh Patil, Professor in the Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

Abhijit and I were colleagues on the Major Reference Works team at SpringerNature for over four years. During those four-plus years I had the pleasure of working with Abhijit on many projects, large and small, straightforward and complex. I was always glad to collaborate on projects with Abhijit, as his dedication, diligence, attention to detail and sheer perseverance in seeing a project through to completion was consistently well above expectations. He took ownership of projects in his brief, and was confident and savvy enough in his publishing acumen to suggest and then implement significant changes that would both improve the final project and bring it market faster. Additionally, Abhijit’s demeanor toward colleagues and authors was always – always – courteous, thorough, and professional.

- Michael Hermann, Senior Editor, Major Reference Works, SpringerNature New York

Education

2003-2005

MSc Applied Psychology

Annamalai University

Annamalainagar

Tamil Nadu

India

This program comprised core courses in general, social, and experimental psychology as well as specialization courses on clinical, health, and personality psychology. I gained major perspectives and skills in terms of thinking about human problems, how to measure and evaluate them, and how to deal with them realistically. This was also my first degree in a social science and helped me strengthen my grasp of academic social sciences.

1999-2000

Advanced Diploma in Personnel Management

Barkatullah University

Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh

India

This was an eight-course diploma program, comprising four core courses on general management, marketing, finance, and human resources and four specialized courses on industrial relations, organization development, strategic HRM, and HR legislation and administration. This program provided insights on problems and their solutions in an organizational setting and also basic yet crucial education on important facets of management.

1996-1999

BA (Hons.) English

Ramjas College
Delhi University

New Delhi

India

This three-year bachelors program in English focused on imparting advanced education on the history and evolution of English language and literature from the early days of England right down to the modern times. It provided deep insights on how the human world has changed over the last one thousand years of development of the English language. It also prepared students in using language skills to achieve real-life solutions to problems. My language skills in particular is one of the primary reasons for my long, successful career in publishing and content as an editor and writer.

Services

Let me first ask you a few questions:

Are you an aspiring author and wish to have your content edited and developed to the highest quality for publication?
Do you fear getting into a mood to write something rather exciting, profound, or just plain useful, and then feeling lost and demotivated due to either not having just the right words or sentences in your mind, getting trapped in highly technical terms you need to use but do not have clarity about, or some other such trouble?
Are you a budding editor who needs clarity about the publishing process, life and prospects in the publishing industry, and similar other matters to feel assured about editorial or publishing as a career choice?
Are you an aspirant for admission to a reputed college or university and need your personal statement, statement of purpose, or research proposal checked, corrected and made clear, concise, and fit in all respects?
Are you looking for the right job for yourself and really wish an expert editor to review your resume or CV and covering letter and ensure that they are just what you need for creating the right impression before crushing the interview?

If any of the above is true about you, rejoice, as you have come to the right place! I can provide you with significant

help and support on all the above.

To put it more directly, I offer the following services:

Content editing, writing, development, and assessment;
Publishing assistance; and
Author and editor coaching.

For specific requirements, it is always better to arrange a one-on-one regular call, WhatsApp call, or Zoom call.

The typical call does not take more than 30 minutes. Based on our interaction, we can decide how to go about the

next steps towards working together. In case you are interested, please let me know at

abhijitbaroi@editordeveloper.com, or better still, fill up the contact form at the bottom and maybe ask for a call

or a quote!

Editing Charges

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