So I made an error.
I found a local woman in the small ads in the local church rag to clean up my text before Research Guy formats it and it goes to Lulu. I went to see her first, explained what I wanted in regards to American/UK spelling etc and various details. She is a retired English teacher who assured me of a super job.
I cant afford to pay a huge price, so her services and proclaimed skill seemed to fit the bill. Her study is crammed full of grammar books, dictionaries, you name it.
So tonight I went to collect the finished product on disc. She even made a report highlighting the areas she had corrected and claimed to have spent many hours on it.
To cut a long story short, here is some text from the e-mail I just sent her:
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We have a problem.
I sat down and started to go through the revised text. I am unable to use it. It is littered with so many errors just in the first 20 pages it makes me want to cry. This is going to delay the launch date. Just to start with.........
I appreciate your effort and time expended and I have no doubts at all about your integrity and intent, but I am afraid this is not what I paid for and its not up to the mark.
If you doubt what I say, I can print the 1st 20 pages and highlight all the issues as an example.
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So I need a copy editor, pretty quickly at a reasonable price. (I dont mind if the finished product is US or UK spelling)
Does anyone here do this? Can anyone recommend anyone?
I found a local woman in the small ads in the local church rag to clean up my text before Research Guy formats it and it goes to Lulu. I went to see her first, explained what I wanted in regards to American/UK spelling etc and various details. She is a retired English teacher who assured me of a super job.
I cant afford to pay a huge price, so her services and proclaimed skill seemed to fit the bill. Her study is crammed full of grammar books, dictionaries, you name it.
So tonight I went to collect the finished product on disc. She even made a report highlighting the areas she had corrected and claimed to have spent many hours on it.
To cut a long story short, here is some text from the e-mail I just sent her:
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We have a problem.
I sat down and started to go through the revised text. I am unable to use it. It is littered with so many errors just in the first 20 pages it makes me want to cry. This is going to delay the launch date. Just to start with.........
- Inconsistent dashes of differing sizes not spaced away from letters.
- Inconsistent punctuation inside/outside speech marks.
- Spelling errors.
- American spelling.
- Double and even triple and bigger spaces between words.
- Incorrect colon usage.
- Incorrect word usage that changed the original intent.
- Hyphens removed where they should actually be (and were)
I appreciate your effort and time expended and I have no doubts at all about your integrity and intent, but I am afraid this is not what I paid for and its not up to the mark.
If you doubt what I say, I can print the 1st 20 pages and highlight all the issues as an example.
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So I need a copy editor, pretty quickly at a reasonable price. (I dont mind if the finished product is US or UK spelling)
Does anyone here do this? Can anyone recommend anyone?
but flippancy aside, I dont need it by a particluar time, although I was hoping to have it [the book] available this month if at all possible but that is looking doubtful now.
