 Nationally offered, personal counseling on your project or book proposal by phone and E-mail.
Call 425.673.4496
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E-mail henriette@henrietteklauser.com
Your Name in Print
Whether it is for the joy of seeing your name in print, or because you have a message inside you that you are burning to share with others, getting published is a thrill. When you can sit in your corner of the world, and have your thoughts and ideas travel to places you have never visited, you know the power of publication.
Having a book or articles to your credit also boosts your authority (the word author comes from the Latin auctoritas, one who has expertise in a particular field). A published book is your calling card for promotion or when you are seeking a new position. When you have written a book, you have national prominence, sometimes international. It can take your work to the next level, or bring you to a place you never expected.
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If you live in or near Seattle, I will meet you in a funky Capitol Hill coffee shop, or at your place of business.
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Before meeting by phone or over a latte, I will review and prepare evaluation of material you send me two weeks prior to our conversation.
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I enjoy being an editor—it's like being a midwife. It's fun watch someone else's story unfold, and to be part of bringing out the best in them, shaping a manuscript for presentation to a larger audience.
As an editor, I do everything from reviewing and improving text of articles, business proposals, and full-length book proposals to mechanical and substantive edit of the entire work.
I can assist you at whatever stage and to whatever degree you need. I will help you polish a proposal or edit the entire manuscript for submission.
That includes all or some of the following:
- Mechanical Editing
I will read your manuscript with an eye to such matters as consistency of capitalization, spelling, and hyphenation; agreement of verbs and subjects; beginning and ending quotation marks and parentheses; number of ellipsis points; numbers given as figures or written out; parallels, breakdown of paragraphs, and other details of style.
- Substantive Editing
This includes rewriting, reorganizing, and suggesting alternate ways to present material. Will untwist convoluted sentences, un-mix mixed metaphors, put all modifiers in proper place, and allow no antecedents to be remote. I promise to make quick, logical, and defensible decisions. Will not tamper with unusual figures of speech, idiomatic usage, or author's own idiosyncratic imagery.
- Copyediting
I will pay close attention to all details, correcting misleading phrases and punctuation. I will proofread and format, establishing a consistent style for spaces between sentences, narrative pauses, headers and footers, presentation of chapters, successive pagination.
Note: The edited copy customarily goes from the editor to the author to the compositor, who makes the desired editorial changes electronically. At your request, I will personally do this part of the process as well.
As a consultant, I can help you to assess the marketability of your book idea, and coach you on breaking into print, either for a full-length book, or articles in magazines and newspapers. If you are working on a book project, I will guide you in preparing a Book Proposal, and if the work is worthy, I can help you find an agent.
I retain Theme Park rights for any project I work on, open to negotiation.
Call 425.673.4496
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E-mail me at henriette@henrietteklauser.com,
to make arrangements for your next big success.
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