- Website: http://www.adirondackediting.com/
- Services offered: copy editing, proofreading.
- Price ranges: ...free? Until 1/1/2013? We're not sure we understand this, either. We welcome feedback from either Adirondack Editing or anyone who has worked with them.
- Professional experience: see website.
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Hi, this is Susan Uttendorfsky, owner of Adirondack Editing. Yes, my services are free of charge until 1/1/2013. After that, a three-tiered system applies based on services desired: line editing/proofreading; line editing/proofreading and critique; and developmental editing/author mentoring. Please feel free to contact me with additional questions or for more information.
ReplyDeleteJust discovered this review blog while checking on Susan's website address with Google. I was checking because I'd just written the following -- which is quite relevant here:
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Susan Uttendorfsky recently did some amazingly perceptive preliminary editing of a few segments of my new 400 page manuscript. I agreed with and applied about 3/4 of her edits and rejected about a quarter, but even the rejections often made me see weaknesses in the material surrounding the problems that had led to her notes.
One of the problems she caught was my tendency to enclose "special" words in what she called "scare quotes." Yes, I knew I had that tendency, but hadn't realized it might be a problem. I initially passed it off as just being my "style," but she encouraged me to look at it more closely. I decided to use Find/Replace to see how many quote marks I had used in my 400 pages: the total came up to something like 2,687!
Aside from finding an odd number instead of an even one (LOL!) it also made me realize that, yes indeed, I had used FARRR too many "scare quotes" in my writing in an effort to convey emphasis of terms and words that were really ordinary enough that they didn't need the special treatment.
The interaction, learning, and give-and-take with an editor is a MAJOR part of the editorial process. A single good editor is worth a thousand "Spell/Grammar/Style Checker" programs.
- MJM
While checking on some other material I found this review from a year ago! :>
ReplyDeleteBy this point, Susan has finished editing my "TobakkoNacht -- The Antismoking Endgame" and the book has been successfully published, has received several very nice reviews in its first month, and is available on both Amazon and Barnes&Noble for purchase. You can read more about it, including some extensive excerpts, at TobakkoNacht.com
**MANY** thanks to Susan for the hard work she put into editing a very varied and complex manuscript and for helping me make a 530 page monstrosity into a 530 page beauty!
Michael J. McFadden