Copy Editing and Critiques
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7 Castlethorpe Crescent
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33327 (map) - (613) 224-0762
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Editing & Proofreading Services
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Copy Editing and Critiques • via Phone or Internet • $30-40 per hour
- You'll be asked a few quick questions that will help describe your needs.
- You'll be asked to provide your contact information so that Sigrid Macdonald will be able to get in touch with you.
- You'll have the option to get competing quotes from other qualified service professionals, saving you time and money.
If you've written an article, manuscript or novel, and are worried about word usage or sentence structure, or if you have English as a second language, look no further. As an experienced author and editor, I will evaluate your work for clarity, consistency, redundancies, flow and structure, as well as character development and background setting for fiction. I will also do a line-by-line edit to ensure that there are no mistakes in your masterpiece. You can't rely on the spellchecker. It doesn't understand homonyms or words that are spelled correctly but used by mistake – e.g., "Dan went home to study for his examine." I don't think so! But because the word examine is spelled properly, even though you meant to say exam, the spellchecker won't pick that up but a good editor will.
Question and answer
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. Writing a book can take hundreds of hours or even years. By that time, you have probably lost all objectivity about how good your work is. You may have over-evaluated it or under-evaluated its market potential. I can provide an objective opinion as to how well it is written, how salable the material is, and what needs to be done to make it better.
Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?
A. Give your manuscript to one or two trusted friends before you send it to an editor. Outside advice can be invaluable.
Q. What questions should a consumer ask to hire the right service professional?
A. Ask for references from people who have hired your editor before. Ask what books he or she has worked on, and if your editor is readily available by phone or e-mail.
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