“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway
This is the reason I’m here. The first draft of anything is indeed shit. The second draft is less shitty. Hopefully, the third is only full of shit, the way my Shakespeare professor once told me that I was (although he put it a different way, saying that I was “touched by the Blarney Stone”).
Got My Glasses On Proofreading Service
You did it! You completed your manuscript. Your hard work is ready to be sent out into the world—be it to your agent, to your editor, as a contest submission, or to the e-publisher’s website. You glance at the title one last time before hitting the send button and you gasp in horror, yanking your finger away from the keyboard. There, on the front page, just above your name, you notice a glaring mistake—Too Be or Not To Be: An Anthology of Shakespearian Wit and Wisdom. In effect, you’ve named your book Also Be or Not To Be, as well as misquoting Shakespeare. If such an obvious error graces the title, what else did you overlook in the next 200 or so pages?
It’s easy to miss little mistakes because our minds fill them in, especially we the authors, who know what we mean, even if it’s not what we wrote. Someone else can often spot the errors and keep us from making blunders that could land us in the slush pile.
I will look for:
I accept .DOC, DOCX, and .RTF formats. Documents must be formatted in the romance industry standard: 1″ margins, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 or 14 or Courier New 12. This is the format in which they will be calculated for billing purposes.
What I will read:
What I won’t read:
I will sometimes read spiritual/Christian-based, but they are a rare bird on my bookshelf.
Credentials:
If you have any questions or to ask after my schedule, please email me at proofreader.lynne@live.com.
For a quick idea of cost… Actual fees will be tabulated according to actual page count. Any text covering a third of a page or more will be counted as a full page.
| # of pages | Rate | Fee |
| 20 | $0.65 | $13.00 |
| 40 | $0.65 | $26.00 |
| 80 | $0.65 | $52.00 |
| 160 | $0.65 | $104.00 |
| 240 | $0.65 | $156.00 |
| 320 | $0.65 | $208.00 |
| 400 | $0.65 | $260.00 |
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