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Welcome to AB_Books!
My name is Abhijit Baroi. I am an editorial and publishing consultant, writer, and author and editor coach.
The following sections will provide you an idea of my track record as an editor, how I am broadly perceived by authors, academic and professional colleagues, my diverse education that has helped me develop competence as a publishing professional across numerous subject areas and publishing domains, and finally what all I offer to help with. As I take up projects on a case-by-case basis, I can provide rates or quotes for them only after direct and detailed interactions through which I come to know about your exact needs and clarify what you can expect from me.
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 other ways I can help you, please feel free to send them over email to abhijitbaroi@editordeveloper.com. I look forward to your inputs.
Happy visiting!
Profile
Experience
23 years in publishing and editorial domains. Editorial and publishing consultant since 2020. Extensive experience in academic, reference, professional, and curriculum publishing firms and editorial services agencies.
Major skillsets
Publishing facilitation; content ideation, assessment, development, and editing; book and editor coaching and mentoring
Specialized skills
Well-honed research abilities; adeptness at using a wide range of information sources
Subject/topic areas
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Psychology, sociology, social work, history, politics, gender studies, economics, and development studies
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Engineering, computer science, and IT
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Medical, biological, and physical sciences
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Business and management
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Serious nonfiction and general topics
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Literature and fiction
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.
What I Offer
Let me first ask you a few questions:
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Are you an aspiring author and wish to have your content (draft manuscript, thesis, or rough assemblage of articles or write-ups) assessed, consolidated, and developed to the highest quality for publication in the form of a book or journal article?
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Are you unsure about which publishers or agencies to approach for getting your content published?
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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?
If any of the above is true about you, rejoice, as you have come to the right place! I can provide you with the help and support you need on all of these.
To put it more directly, I offer the following:
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Content ideation, assessment, and development;
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Publishing assistance;
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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. We can decide how to go about the next steps for working together. 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!
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