“Last Pass” Proofreading Available

Experienced editor, writer, grammarian and excellent speller as well as college-level writing professor now available for your document’s/manuscript’s FINAL proofreading.

Pay me less if it has fewer mistakes!

Only $0.30 per error
(one quarter, USA currency, payable via PayPal or snailmail checks).

When you’re fairly certain your other proofreaders have “done the trick,” let me have the “last pass.” If I don’t find any mistakes, you pay me only about $40 for every 80 pages (see RATES, below), because it usually takes me one hour (about 40,000 words), to read through for errors. All errors marked, for evidence.

no-error RATES
(add $0.30 per error over these rates)
— $15 for short pieces, up to 2999 words/5 pgs
(brochures, blurbs, posters, banners, flash fiction, etc.)
—$20 for short stories (up to 3K wds/6 pgs)
—$30 for novelettes (3K – 20K wds/40 pgs)
—$45 for novellas (up to 50K wds/100 pgs)
—$80 for first 150K wds/300 pgs (add $30 for every 20K wds/40 pgs over 150K/300 pgs) for full-length plays or novels

— $5 extra, per page, with or without other errors, if you want the document to be checked for formatting and consistency in usage as well as the usual proofreading checks (punctuation, grammar, word choice, capitals, spelling and typos).

— Manuscripts must be provided in as a document in MS Word or OpenOffice Word or similar format (not epub, Scrivener, PDF). $20.00 surcharge, approximately, for editing suggestions and/or if the document does not allow for mark-up changes right on the document and I have to send each error/suggestion by typing out sentences, 1 per error/suggestion.

No developmental, story or other larger editing provided.

If I deem that the manuscript isn’t proofreader-ready, I return it/do not proofread it, charging only $20 service charge.

Quick turn-around on most jobs. I am fast, thorough, accurate and correct.

No ebook or publication final formatting provided. No book design, cover design, or blurb-writing (but will proof these, when requested).

I accept almost all genres in fiction and topics in non-fiction, EXCEPT those with graphic violence, war/military/terrorist scenes or BDSM/erotica. I do not proof graphic novels/comics or artwork.

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Invoiced on 4/1/17 for the first two projects for this new “Last Pass” proofreading service (price hikes in 2024 not reflected, below)!

Total, $18.50
—Invoice 1, $15.00, 41 errors/concerns, 6-page brochure, fewer than 2500 words; editing suggestions cost about $5.00 extra per document, under 2500 words.
—Invoice 2, $3.50, 14 errors/concerns, 1-page poster, fewer than 2500 words.
Not April Fools, either.
Affordable, reliable, quick turn-around, excellent eye for all types of errors.
Check me out!
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Contact: sallyember AT yahoo DOT com
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