Finding a Proofreader

I've seen several proofreading rates in the .0025-.0050 per word range so for your length in the $50-100 range. Some of these are also per-word estimates based on actual hourly rates so extremely shoddy mss could be cost outliers since they will require more than typical editing.

Here's the UK's Society for Editors and Proofreaders: you'll probably find people there who could help you; and you might well find a similar organisation which is more local for you, if you look around.

You could also try the KindleBoards Yellow Pages for Authors, which has a list of editors and proofreaders.

Can anyone add themselves to that list on the Kindle Boards, Parametric? Because if so, there's no indication that anyone there offers a good service and I'd be concerned using it as a resource.

Yes, I know I'm an old stick-in-the-mud: but I've seen so many self-published books which have apparently been "professionally edited" which are full of errors and problems that I'm now very skeptical of the standards of many of the editing services available.

Old Hack said:

Can anyone add themselves to that list on the Kindle Boards, Parametric? Because if so, there's no indication that anyone there offers a good service and I'd be concerned using it as a resource.

Yes, I know I'm an old stick-in-the-mud: but I've seen so many self-published books which have apparently been "professionally edited" which are full of errors and problems that I'm now very skeptical of the standards of many of the editing services available.

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You're not a stick-in-the-mud! You look out for writers, and I value that.

Yes, anyone can add themselves to the list, and caveat emptor does apply. I wouldn't suggest hiring anybody without checking their experience and getting a satisfactory sample edit. (I have also seen some terrible books which have supposedly been edited, so I know whereof you speak.)

I'm saving up to join the SfEP and take their proofreading classes. I got hooked while interning at H0dder. Stacks of page proofs. Stacks!