Awarded in 2022: Certificate of Editing, from ACES, the American Copy Editors Society!
Proofreading: $0.0075/word ($7.50/1000 words)
Editing: $0.0105/word ($10.50/1000 words)
I have seven years of editing experience.
I spent three years editing for technical writers, and this is my fourth year working with authors who write fiction. My favorite genres are sweet romance, women’s fiction, christian fiction and cozy mysteries.
I can help you understand the modern differences between proofreading and editing, and I am happy to look over your revisions too.
My strengths are finding the grammar, punctuation, and word usage errors that pop up when you’re not looking (I know it feels that way sometimes, right?) and those that are missed by grammar software (yes, the latest technology is amazing, but it still can’t catch everything.) I am especially good at finding timeline errors and story-line or character inconsistencies. I am Sharp-eyed Shari and I won’t rest until your novel looks its absolute best.
Hint: I can return your book faster and charge you less, the more time you spend self-editing.
You might feel ready to publish your book, but do you know that it only takes a few misplaced modifiers or otherwise confusing sentences for a reader to get frustrated and set your book down, perhaps never coming back to it? So, even if you have already edited your book so many times that by now you can recite most of the lines by memory, it’s still not ready to publish. That’s because your eyes see the words as you know they SHOULD be. A fresh set of eyes, especially by a person that is trained in what to look for, will catch those sneaky errors that evade your brain every time. This is why you reach out to Sharp-eyed Shari. She’s that professionally trained, fresh set of eyes. Then, by the time you do publish, your readers will do what you’ve always hoped they’ll do - NOT BE ABLE to put your book down. Do you see the importance of sending your book to Sharp-eyed Shari before you publish?
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Click the yellow button to discuss an Indie Author Discount with me, or to send me five to ten pages for your free trial.
Email: sharpeyedshari AT gmail.com
Sharp-eyed Shari
You have probably worked with others enough to know that easy communication and a comfortable relationship is important to a team. I am confident that I will deliver both. So, send me five to ten pages to edit for you as a free sample. Let me show you that I will be a valuable asset to your team.
I’m Sharp-eyed Shari and I won’t rest until your writing looks its best.
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