Jean P. Purcell
Author Expert came to my mind during a discussion about editing and book assessment. It is very hard to evaluate your own work in a closed room, so to speak. The closed room may be right for writing, but it is not the place for better editing, proofing, or evaluation of your organization, flow, or tone of your work.
It is close to impossible to get to on-line and hard-copy publishers to consider your work unless you have an agent and/or a well-known name or connection. That's where freelance editors, proofreaders, and publishers can help writers. That's where I come in, too.
I have an author free-service blog, Author Support, that appeals to writers and authors. Recently I have wanted to connect with authors, beginning or advanced, who desire more specific advice.
To put my skills to work fully requires more time and, therefore, affordable fees. I am sensitive to writers' financial limits for their projects.
I decided to start a blog-central for my SERVICE AND SALES where I could more effectively use my expert skills as a writer, published author, blogger, editor, professional proofreader, and publisher.
The SERVICE comes through a FREE Author Expert Report in the planning now, to be available by free subscription. When the report technicalities online are ready, I will post that here.
Subscribers will receive free special information that non-subscribers will not see. I hope every visitor will sign up for this free service. However, the ready-to-walk-forward writers will have nothing to venture except reading and learning.
Here are some questions I get a lot:
1)Who are the gatekeepers every writer needs to keep in mind all the time?
2)What is the major turnoff to editors?
3)What is the major turnoff to prospective agents?
4)How can I avoid another scam editor or agent?
5)Why is my writing not getting anywhere beyond my local community or my blog?
6)Where did you start your book? How did you decide the opening scenes?
7)Who are you to write this book?
8)Should I self-publish?
9) As a publisher, did you make money?
10) Why did you publish new writers?
11) Why do some people say my book will not interest anyone but family?
My Free report will be accessed via a free subscription. Subscribers will give name and email address. Privacy will be a top priority.
The SALES aspect is more personal, designed for individual writers with:
My new Author Expert blog started to connect with more new writers ready for a professional book mentor at affordable prices, staggered for each agreed phase.
Every writer can become familiar with editing ideas, proofing, and/or a book idea or manuscript analysis by another person, someone about quickly to identify specific strengths and weaknesses.
I have experience as a published author (pen name Jane Bullard), article writer, independent publisher (Opine Books/Publishing), and identifier of problems in the writing and book formation process. I know marketing pitfalls and successes and willingly share them at affordable rates. Good planning, knowledge of the publishing world, and excellent writing--all are within your reach to enhance your writing future.
Maybe you are familiar with editing or you have been a full-time proofreader, as I have. Maybe you know if you want a copy editor, line editor, or full text editor. Maybe you know what a query is and how to prepare a proposal and the competitors' list inside it.
Maybe you know who a publisher's gatekeeper is. Maybe you are familiar with organizing and amending TOCs and working with word counts, page lengths, and style platforms that editors prefer. Maybe you know already how to find the right editor at a publishing house.
I had to learn most of those the hard way. I help authors avoid the time and headaches. Some hard lessons I learned by accident, and I treasure those days; yet I know the perseverance (good) and extreme stress (not good) of every step without help.
I know style formatting, an essential skill, because Carri, my associate in publishing, taught me when my publishing company was young. Also, and equally important, she taught me how to develop habits of observation that style platform work needs.
A lot of information is available through books, magazines, and websites.You can learn from many different sources. I always try to do things on my own.
However, getting feedback in a personal way is essential for a serious writer. Expertise one-on-one is a more personal way, I have found to be most helpful.
I have experience guiding many authors in their writing and publisher-seeking process. I help writers anticipate obstacles and learn how to critique their own work more efficiently.
Author Expert is gearing up so that you and other authors can choose options best for you at any time.
Author Expert came to my mind during a discussion about editing and book assessment. It is very hard to evaluate your own work in a closed room, so to speak. The closed room may be right for writing, but it is not the place for better editing, proofing, or evaluation of your organization, flow, or tone of your work.
It is close to impossible to get to on-line and hard-copy publishers to consider your work unless you have an agent and/or a well-known name or connection. That's where freelance editors, proofreaders, and publishers can help writers. That's where I come in, too.
I have an author free-service blog, Author Support, that appeals to writers and authors. Recently I have wanted to connect with authors, beginning or advanced, who desire more specific advice.
To put my skills to work fully requires more time and, therefore, affordable fees. I am sensitive to writers' financial limits for their projects.
I decided to start a blog-central for my SERVICE AND SALES where I could more effectively use my expert skills as a writer, published author, blogger, editor, professional proofreader, and publisher.
The SERVICE comes through a FREE Author Expert Report in the planning now, to be available by free subscription. When the report technicalities online are ready, I will post that here.
Subscribers will receive free special information that non-subscribers will not see. I hope every visitor will sign up for this free service. However, the ready-to-walk-forward writers will have nothing to venture except reading and learning.
Here are some questions I get a lot:
1)Who are the gatekeepers every writer needs to keep in mind all the time?
2)What is the major turnoff to editors?
3)What is the major turnoff to prospective agents?
4)How can I avoid another scam editor or agent?
5)Why is my writing not getting anywhere beyond my local community or my blog?
6)Where did you start your book? How did you decide the opening scenes?
7)Who are you to write this book?
8)Should I self-publish?
9) As a publisher, did you make money?
10) Why did you publish new writers?
11) Why do some people say my book will not interest anyone but family?
My Free report will be accessed via a free subscription. Subscribers will give name and email address. Privacy will be a top priority.
The SALES aspect is more personal, designed for individual writers with:
- Evaluation of writing
- Help options: analysis of unfinished or finished manuscript, editing, proofing, concept help for fiction and nonfiction, and manuscript analysis as the manuscript forms and grows, and other options generated by the writer being helped
- Technical information for proper formatting for manuscripts ready to be submitted to an agent or publisher's editor.
- Marketing advice and help developing a broad marketing plan to include in a book proposal.
- Other services specified by the author.
My new Author Expert blog started to connect with more new writers ready for a professional book mentor at affordable prices, staggered for each agreed phase.
Every writer can become familiar with editing ideas, proofing, and/or a book idea or manuscript analysis by another person, someone about quickly to identify specific strengths and weaknesses.
I have experience as a published author (pen name Jane Bullard), article writer, independent publisher (Opine Books/Publishing), and identifier of problems in the writing and book formation process. I know marketing pitfalls and successes and willingly share them at affordable rates. Good planning, knowledge of the publishing world, and excellent writing--all are within your reach to enhance your writing future.
Maybe you are familiar with editing or you have been a full-time proofreader, as I have. Maybe you know if you want a copy editor, line editor, or full text editor. Maybe you know what a query is and how to prepare a proposal and the competitors' list inside it.
Maybe you know who a publisher's gatekeeper is. Maybe you are familiar with organizing and amending TOCs and working with word counts, page lengths, and style platforms that editors prefer. Maybe you know already how to find the right editor at a publishing house.
I had to learn most of those the hard way. I help authors avoid the time and headaches. Some hard lessons I learned by accident, and I treasure those days; yet I know the perseverance (good) and extreme stress (not good) of every step without help.
I know style formatting, an essential skill, because Carri, my associate in publishing, taught me when my publishing company was young. Also, and equally important, she taught me how to develop habits of observation that style platform work needs.
A lot of information is available through books, magazines, and websites.You can learn from many different sources. I always try to do things on my own.
However, getting feedback in a personal way is essential for a serious writer. Expertise one-on-one is a more personal way, I have found to be most helpful.
I have experience guiding many authors in their writing and publisher-seeking process. I help writers anticipate obstacles and learn how to critique their own work more efficiently.
Do you wish that you could have writing help that was free
and more that would not cost a bundle?
Author Expert is gearing up so that you and other authors can choose options best for you at any time.
Sincerely,
Jean
P.S. Proof, edit, or comment on my writing. Blog posts have comment boxes, too. :)
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