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Experienced Professional Proofreader Going Independent

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#1 ·
My name is Margaret Dean and I've worked as a freelance proofreader for professional publishing houses for the past thirty years. Now I'm bringing my expertise to the independent publishing market.

I'll go over your work with an experienced eye; I'll catch typos, correct spelling and punctuation errors, iron out grammar and usage glitches, and do whatever else is needed to give it the professional, literate polish it deserves.

All varieties of fiction welcome short of full-on erotica (romance-level sex scenes are fine); I'm a longtime SF & fantasy reader and won't boggle at alien terminology or invented languages. I can also handle non-fiction written for general audiences.

• Rates: $.35 per 100 words, with a $50.00 minimum, for a two-week turnaround. Rush rates (1 week turnaround or less) $.50 per 100 words.

• Software: Microsoft Word Track Changes

• Contact Information: Email me at margdean56@gmail.com

Special Introductory Offer: If you're an author I've never worked with before, you'll get 10% off the first job I receive from you.

Check out my profile at LinkedIn: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-r-dean/>
 
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Something that's come to mind recently: KBoards, in its Yellow Pages, doesn't distinguish between the different stages of editing a work. I suspect it's for that reason that over the past couple of years I've been sent works that seem to me to be first drafts. Now, far be it from me to discourage people from sending me jobs, but a copyeditor/proofreader is most useful when working on a manuscript at a later stage. Think of it as the paint job on a car. You wouldn't send a car out on the road unpainted, but neither do you send it out to be painted before you have all the parts assembled into a working automobile.

Just something to keep in mind...
 
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