“Your work is excellent.”
“l enjoyed the short time you used to edit my manuscript of my book entitled, Hope for Survival. Also the seven blurbs you edited were all perfect and ready for publishing. . . . l would recommend your editing and proofreading services to authors around the world. . . . God bless your service!”
MY STORY
I have always loved reading. Have always had my head in a book (or two or three . . . or five). And have always liked things neat and in their place. I like spoons where the spoons belong, sweaters where the sweaters belong, keys where the keys belong . . . and commas where the commas belong. So it shouldn’t have surprised me when God dropped it in my heart to be a proofreader. But it did.
Late one night I asked Him, “Lord, would You show me skills I don’t even know I have so I can start a business?” At 7:30 the next morning, my daughter, who is never heard from before noon, called me, all excited.
“Mom! I know what you can do! You should be a proofreader!”
I sat there, silent and stunned, as the rightness of what she was saying sunk in. Of course!
So I embarked on my journey. I enrolled in an excellent proofreading and copyediting training program from Edit Republic. I bought a new computer and style manuals. I read and read and read. To learn more and to practice. And I am having the time of my life.
And . . . I offer my skills, natural and acquired, to you. I will help you put your masterpiece out to the world just the way you are envisioning it.
For I understand wanting something, especially something of importance, to be “just right.”
MY GOAL
I am a Christian proofreader and copy editor who specializes in editing manuscripts for Christian authors who want quality professional help putting the finishing touches on their labor of love.
When it is time to put your manuscript out to the world, I will work closely with you, following your style preferences (first and foremost), The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, The Chicago Manual of Style, The SBL Handbook of Style for Biblical Studies and Related Disciplines, and The Christian Writers’s Manual of Style to perfect and polish the message, the story—the gift you have been given. My goal is to help you deliver it to the world the way you are envisioning it.
