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Content Copy Editor Needed for Revolutionary Parenting Book

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I am looking for someone with excellent English and literary skills to do the content and copy edit for my book. The book has already been through a couple of self-editing phases, this is the final edit before the book will be published on Amazon in a few weeks. The book is a revolutionary self-help parenting book with the focus on transforming the parent, as well as providing a real path to raising children with unconditional love. I am looking for someone with editing experience and interest in this type of book. I'm on a short deadline and need someone who can work quickly and focus attention on this project completing within two weeks. I need the content and copy edits completed by April 3. The book is about 39,000 words. I am working with proven bestsellers so this will be great exposure for you and your work. I have attached 2 small sections of about 150 words to be edited and returned along with your proposal please choose one of the two to edit and return. Please also give me your thoughts as to why you chose the section that you chose. I need to work with someone who is motivated and budgets time well. You must be capable of keeping my voice as an author while assisting with the flow of content. I am very motivated and have already started on my next book (with several other ideas in que). If you and I click I'd love to hire you for future projects as well as passing on your information to my many author friends if I am impressed with your work. I am a parent coach and facilitate personal growth and will offer 1 session as a gift to my editor of choice with the possibility of trade if you like what I do. If you are interested in this project, submit a proposal with why you're interested and your price. Please include the phrase ** "Om Elephant" ** at the top of your bid. Along with answers to the following questions: Why are you excited to work on my project? Do you have any questions about the job or what is expected of you? Do you have suggestions to make this project run successfully? What challenging part of this job are you most experienced in? If you have any questions, please let me know. I am looking forward to hearing from you!
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Om Elephant Your project appeals to me because when I was a young parent I read all the books I could on parenting. Although there were aspects of my parents' way of bringing up their five children that I emulated, or tried to, my parenting style diverged from theirs in some ways, and was definitely different to that of my in-laws. I registered with Freelancer in February last year and have 66 reviews, all positive. English is my first language and my skills include technical writing, editing and proofreading. I think Freelancer's advice that the client and the freelancer communicate frequently is the best was to make any project run successfully. I am most experienced at tightening up language to make it correct and clear. I was an English teacher in high school for four years, and spent many hours making corrections and suggestions for students' essays I have worked with individual clients to bring 15 books to publication and three of these clients have rehired me to work on a second book. Several of these books come close to the genre of your book: one on personal motivation, one on breathing techniques, one on Reiki for children and another on the raw food diet. I have edited your section on punishment and consequence, and if you send me a message I will be able to send you my edited version. I chose this one because I have never punished my child (he is now 26), and my husband and I have never used the word "naughty" in relation to children's behavior.
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Om Elephant Hi Amber I would be very interested in helping you on your project. Professionally, I am the Academic Director of an English Language school, and I have a Master's in English Teaching and Linguistics. My students are predominantly adults, and part of our work involves helping them with postgraduate submissions - proofreading, editing, helping with style etc. I am very interested in stylistics and language - education is vocational. I take great pleasure in manipulating language for effect. Your project also partly interests me as a relatively new parent! As far as the job itself is concerned, my questions are: 1) When is your deadline? 2) Do you prefer to work with an editor who tracks changes? 3) My suggestion would be to work in small sections, so you have multiple opportunities to check that you are happy with style etc. - would that be acceptable? I have edited part of the attached proposal, but because of character limits I can't include it here. Please message me if you are interested in working together and I will send you my work over the messaging service. Kind Regards Simon Richardson
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Om Elephant Project Description I am looking for someone with excellent English and literary skills to do the content and copy edit for my book. The book has already been through a couple of self-editing phases, this is the final edit before the book will be published on Amazon in a few weeks.
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** "Om Elephant" ** -- Hello, Amber. I’m Al Sabado, an experienced and professionally trained editor, working as a full-time freelance since 2008. As a freelance editor, I help clients edit, proofread, style read, format, or fact check written documents such as books, e-books, doctoral dissertations, and web content, among others. I’d be happy to copyedit your revolutionary parenting book in 10 weekdays, for $1,500 USD (initial milestone on current bid). Will that be feasible for you? Let me know. I'll be able to attach my sample edit when you respond to this e-mail. Meanwhile, following are my answers to your questions (Q1 to Q4): Q1: Parenting is by far the hardest job I can ever think of. But having been raised by two wonderful people (except Mom passed away in 1996; Dad never remarried), I witnessed what it means to raise children lovingly, the best way possible--disciplinary training included--despite tough life situations. Q2: Is this the first time you're hiring a freelance editor? What are you expectations? Q3: Getting feedback from professional colleagues, friends, and members of your family, who'd read the book, is highly recommended prior to publishing. Q4: Copyediting. It's the kind of work I do and enjoy doing. If you would have questions or concerns regarding my proposal, just send me an e-mail and I’ll get back to you shortly. Thank you in advance for considering my editorial service. I hope to hear from you. Sincerely, Al
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Hi, You are looking for a Revolutionary Parenting Book. I am highly confident that I will complete this project perfectly. I just want to say upfront that I am a registered parenting consultant myself. Moreover, I've plenty of relevant experience. I completed a batch of 10 articles and an eBook on parenting for teenagers just few days ago and all that information is still fresh in my memory. Copy? No chance. I use Copyscape premium. Please send me a message and then I can attach my recent writing sample. Sincerely, Mortuza Karzon Preferred Freelancer
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Om Elephant I translate and edit books for Amazon Publishing. My clients include eBay, Elite Lawyer Management, The Dad Vibe parenting blog, Brainblogger, Elite Daily. I am a Creative Writing professor with an MFA and an award-winning writer. I have edited a few books, including one on parenting (also co-written by me), and I always jump at the opportunity to edit more quality books. There is not enough space here to answer all your questions, but I will be happy to discuss further. SAMPLE: Most of us tend to think about consequence in terms of punishment and reward. However, there is a dynamic difference between consequence and punishment. Consequence is a concept that derives from a natural law, the law of cause and effect. Punishment is connected to retribution, its purpose is to make someone suffer; its main objective is control. As a parent I do not want my child to decide whether or not to do something guided by a sense of fear of how I am going to react. Consequence focuses on the person our children will become, it helps shape them. It does not deal in control or results. Such is the dynamic difference between punishment and consequence. Punishment is all about immediate results, “I want a result right now, so, I’m going to punish you.” Consequence, on the other hand, has a long-term focus. It teaches children to better themselves for the people they will someday become. -Seeing what you like/dislike about my version would point me in the right direction.
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** "Om Elephant" ** Why are you excited to work on my project?: Editing is a passion of mine and I am a very positive person who loves the idea of your book! Do you have any questions about the job or what is expected of you?: I would like to know a preference for Editing style, as I am very flexible. Please see my "ABOUT MY APPLICATION" or message me for details. Do you have suggestions to make this project run successfully?: I have a personal preference for regular, daily contact between client and freelancer. What challenging part of this job are you most experienced in?: Editing is always a challenge; especially of such large documents. ABOUT MY APPLICATION Hello, I think that I would be suited to this position due to my past and current experience in Editing and proofreading. I have two styles of Editing. One where I directly Edit your document, and another where I take notes for you to work with. The latter means that the document remains completely your own. If the latter is chosen, I return my notes to you, you work with those notes and return the updated document to me, I take more notes, etc, etc, etc, until we are both happy that the document is to the desired standard. I am fast and efficient and prefer to work directly with my clients while both of us are online, but am able to work alone if necessary. I hope that you will consider working with me. Thank you for considering my application.
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** "Om Elephant" ** Most of us think of consequence as a term of punishment and reward. However, there is a dynamic difference between consequence and punishment. Consequence refers to a natural law, which is the law of cause and effect. Punishment is about retribution as it’s purpose is to make someone suffer, in a form of control. As a parent, I don’t want my child to do or not do something based on a sense of fear of how I’m going to react. The consequence is about who they are becoming and helping to shape them. It is not about control, nor is it about results. That is the dynamic difference between punishment and consequence. Punishment is about results, such as ‘I want a result right now, I’m going to punish you’. Whereas the consequence is about the long-term. Teaching them to better themselves for who they are to become. I chose this piece as I believe this should be a strong focal point as many often teach their child to do as they say, rather than what is the right thing to do. This project is exciting for me because motherhood is something I hold dearly. I am a strong believer of postive parenting and hope to reach out to more parents. As a mother to a free-spirited 3.5 year old, I have had previous work experience as a teacher's assistant as well as child babysitter and caregiver. I havea background in pharmacy, which included child psychology and development and countless seminars. (hoping to talk to you more as there is not enough space :) )
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Om Elephant Hi Amber, I am Shalika. I am a post graduate in management sciences and have worked in many research organizations. I am an avid book reader and have written many articles, compendiums, reports and scientific papers in my professional capacity. I have secured IELTS test score of 8.5. I found your project very interesting because personally I think parenting is very nuanced. Your book sections resonate with my idea of parenting and I have exemplified this in the re-edited section. I think of this as a learning opportunity for personal growth. I genuinely find this topic interesting and can give suggestions based on my own experience (if solicited). I am most interested in keeping the soul of the book alive while editing it. The original writing style will not be compromised and my objective is to fine tune and make the reading more crisp and sharp. I do have some questions about the plan of action as time is short and edited version needs to be completed in two weeks. I personally think you should be updated daily with edited 3900 words/day so that a few days margin can be gained for contingency. Looking forward to hearing from you! Many Thanks and Regards, Shalika
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Om Elephant Why are you excited to work on my project? David has experience working with foster parents and families with parenting difficulties and has an in-depth knowledge about attachment theory and parenting styles. Do you have any questions about the job or what is expected of you? How would you like the edits made? I usually use the 'track changes' feature in MS Word but appreciate that this will be a length process to accept/reject all changes made. Do you anticipate using milestone payments? Do you have suggestions to make this project run successfully? I have found that in previous projects, regular communication is key- particularly when certain aspects need further clarification. What challenging part of this job are you most experienced in? I have proofread many bachelors and masters level academic work. My background is in higher education academia. Specifically in Social Work and Business Management which gives me a good background subject knowledge of your book (which sounds fascinating by the way- I enjoyed reading your section on consequences vs punishments and completely agree). I'll send you the sample edit as it won't fit in here. Any questions let me know. Andy
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Om Elephant 1. As an avid reader of parenting books, magazines and blogs, and as a new mother, this is a topic I am very passionate about. I am thrilled at the prospect of empowering other parents, as I know how much parenting books have helped me. I look forward to working with you and building a long-term relationship! 2. You answered any questions I might have had. 3. Success will happen with a lot of communication between us. I want to ensure that your voice is enhanced. 4. I have a degree in technical writing, which means I have years of intensive grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. I also have ten years in editing and writing documents in a variety of topics and lengths. SAMPLE Most of us think about consequence in terms of punishment and reward; however, there is a distinct difference between consequence and punishment. Consequence refers to a natural law: the law of cause and effect. Punishment is about retribution, its purpose is to make someone suffer. Punishment is meant to control. As a parent I don’t want my child to do, or not do something because they fear my reaction. Learning consequences is about helping to shape your child and who she is becoming. It’s not about control and it’s not about immediate results. This illustrates the distinct difference between punishment and consequence. Punishment is about results -- I want a result right now so I’m going to punish you. Consequence is about the long-term and teaching the child to better himself.
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