Technical
Editing offered by Romana Hillebrand
As you know, one of the all-too-often valid
criticisms of self-publishing is the poor quality of editing with egregiously
glaring grammatical and punctuation errors. To combat this, I invite SASP
members to send completed manuscripts to my wife, Romana
Hillebrand, for technical editing. This means that
she will correct grammar and punctuation errors. She will not tamper with the
content. She will offer two levels of service. On the first level, she will
merely correct the errors without explanation. On the second level, she will
correct the errors and offer an explanation so that the author can profit from
the mistake and hopefully not make it again. The good news is that there will
be no charge for this service. However, we do ask that those who submit a
manuscript for editing make a donation to English Certification Project of one
dollar per page for level one service and two dollars a page for level two service. ECP is a 501C3 non-profit organization so that all
contributions are tax deductible. What could be a better deal for all
concerned? Donations will be used to promote the work of ECP, which is to help
people to improve their language skills.
Members may submit manuscripts to romana@wsu.edu.
Alternatively, they can send paper copies to her at Romana
Hillebrand,
The only thing we ask is that it
should be a final manuscript. Sometimes she has edited a manuscript and then
the author has made changes to it and introduced a whole host of new errors,
and that makes both the author and the editor look bad.