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When I work for authors and self-publishers |
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The best thing in the first instance is to e-mail me a chapter and any outline you have prepared. I'll read them and send you back my first impressions, whether I think I'm the right person to help you, and if so what help I can provide (with times and estimated fees). First impressions are very important, particularly to an agent, or publishing editor, or someone in a shop looking at a publication by someone they haven't heard of. As I understand it, a contract is created between us if I e-mail you, saying 'I can do this, that and the other, which will take [time] and cost [money]', and you reply 'fine, go ahead' or 'do this and that, but not the other'. I charge for work at the end of each job or agreed stage, and my invoice states that you have 30 days to pay me. I have not registered for VAT. |
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Avoiding misunderstandings It is vital to agree in advance when a job will be 'complete'. Normally, unless I'm asked otherwise, I make certain assumptions when I quote: ● development editing jobs sometimes finish when I return to you a list of comments and queries, but more often clients ask me to look at revised documents—I will have allowed for one such revision in my quotation, and if further work is required we'll have to discuss terms For electronic and online texts, you might ask me to work on a dummy version of your site, on the files that make it up or directly in a content management system. Such projects will often be similar either to proofreading or to copy editing, and (unless asked otherwise) my quotation will be based on assumptions like those set out above. |
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Professional standards I am an Advanced Professional Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). As such, I am bound by the Society's Code of Practice. To see my credentials, download my CV in PDF format. | |
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