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 Need help making your point?
“I went to school. I can write well enough to do my job,” you may say. Or: “I’ve taken writing courses. I’m confident of my skills.”
The truth is, even if you’re a pretty good writer, or even an excellent one, it takes another set of eyes – trained eyes – to catch every last typo, grammatical error, misuse of a word, or spelling mistake. (Your spellchecker doesn’t know the difference between a blue moon and bleu cheese.)
It takes a special kind of mind to find and correct leaps of logic, omissions, wordiness, jargon and whatever else might ail your report, brochure, manual, press release, web page, academic paper, article, story or book (fiction or non-fiction).
That’s where we come in. We help you communicate clearly. We help you look good and sound good while maintaining your own style. And for those times when you simply don’t have the time to write it yourself, we’ll do it for you. We help you make your point.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is summarized in our goal: clarity, quality, efficiency, achieved with honesty and integrity. In whatever service we provide for you, we work quickly and accurately. We’re interested in doing the best work possible, for your sake – and ours.
Our Experience
Marian Van Til is the primary writer and editor for WordPower Publishing’s Writing and Editorial Services. She has more than two decades of writing and editing experience in newspapers, magazines, journals and on the web.
Marian is the former editor and managing editor of a religious newsweekly with an international audience and has edited for a major academic publisher. She is the published author of articles on a large variety of subjects in a wide range of genres: film reviews, music and book reviews, biographical and autobiographical sketches, news stories and investigative reports, newsletters, editorials, analysis pieces, meditations, academic papers and personnel and information manuals. WordPower Publishing published Marian’s first full-length book in June 2007. (see Home and Bookstore).
Services offered
~ We accept writing or editing projects in both American and Canadian English.
Writing
Business & nonprofit
For churches, schools, organizations
Personal/family
~ We write brochures, newsletters, press releases, promotional material, in-house documents and personnel manuals, and easily readable technical documents for which you supply the content.
~ We will write non-fiction works of any length, on a variety of subjects, based on material you supply.
~ We write website copy.
~ Do you have something else in mind? Tell us about your project. We’ll tell you if we can help.
Editing
~ We accept material of all lengths, on many subjects.
Personal
Business
Non-profit and churches, community organizations, schools, newspapers
Academic
What’s the difference between substantive editing, copyediting and proofreading?
Substantive editing goes deepest. It starts with the ideas the writer wants to convey and helps the writer shape and order those ideas into a coherent piece of readable, publishable writing.
Copyediting tweaks and spruces up content while looking for inconsistencies, illogic and lack of flow. At the same time it corrects grammatical and spelling errors and may also involve fact checking.
Proofreading is the final step before a piece goes to press -- whether to ink on paper or via electronic means. It catches any minor mistakes that may have remained after copyediting.
Ad copy may need proofreading, a newsletter or web page may need copyediting, or a book manuscript, story or essay may need substantive editing. But the lines between the three are not always stark or immovable. Perhaps you’ll have an inkling before you submit your work what kind of editing it needs. Or perhaps not. Either way, we’ll quickly evaluate your submission and let you know what we think it needs. We’ll then give you an estimated cost to do whatever needs doing.
Fees & Terms
Estimates may vary slightly from the final price (writing is not an exact science, nor is editing). Estimates will not vary more than 5% from our original quote to you, either higher or lower.
Fees are determined by us based per hour ($30-50/hour) or per project, depending on project type and length. If you ask, we’ll explain the rationale for our estimate. Minimum job accepted: $20 US.
Once you’ve decided to use our services we’ll ask you to consent to and return a contract (which can be done via email), then submit your writing along with a percentage of the payment (we’ll let you know how much). The balance of payment is expected immediately upon our completion and return of your project.
For very small jobs (minimum $20 US), payment must accompany the submission of your project.
For any jobs requiring a minimum of 4 hours (hourly rate) or $150 (project rate) we will complete a portion of your project and allow you to evaluate our work to be sure you want us to continue.
Questions, comments? Contact us at info@wordpowerpublishing.com
To order writing or editing services go to Writing & Editing: Hire Us
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