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Why wasn't my book accepted?
How disappointing to have your work rejected. You worked hard on it and
spent many hours sweating over it trying to tell your story, or get your
point across. Your work is rejected and you don't even know why. Was
your story or work that bad? What was wrong with it? Why wasn't it
accepted? What a blow to your creative spirit. How discouraging. After all
the creative effort, don't you want someone to review your work to be
sure it is presented in the best possible way? Many an author has been
turned aside when all they needed was
A Good Edit.
First-time author?
First-time authors are particularly vulnerable. Over the years, I have
worked on many books and works, especially with first-time authors who
have written a good story or work that would be enjoyable and informative
to read, but is so filled with errors that the point is lost. Sometimes it may
be unclear what is meant, the character names, or important places or
events are spelled differently, the plot takes a turn without explanation, or
many other things you just didn't see. You think you have done everything
correctly, re-read it and reviewed it until you just can't bear to do it one
more time. You think it is perfect and you have found everything.

This is usually not the case. It is very difficult to edit your own work,
regardless of your grasp of grammar, spelling, punctuation and writing
fundamentals because you see only what you meant to write. You know
what the storyline is, the places and events, the characters, and all the
elements that make up your work. When this happens, the reader will most
likely lose interest and quickly put your book down. Your credibility is lost.
What a shame! All the hours, sweat and heart put into your work gone to
waste when all it needed was
A Good Edit. Contact us for a sample edit.
www.agoodedit.com
Website text…
can be especially exposed to criticism due to the volume of visitors.
Poor quality text can raise questions about the quality of your product
in the mind of the visitor. If you haven't made the effort in the quality
of your text, how can they be sure you have made the effort to
guarantee the quality of your product?

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website resources page for tools to help with your website
Self-publishing?
How important is this? Who will be the last person to see your writing
before going to print? Most likely you will. Generally speaking, most
self-publishing businesses do not edit your manuscript. Whatever you send
is formatted and printed. Your readers will be first to find any errors or
problems. How embarrassing! Your books are printed and can't be changed.
The cost is yours to bear.
A Good Edit beforehand would have saved you
the cost and embarrassment.
Only need proofreading?
Proofreading, also known as line editing, is especially important. It is
sometimes used incorrectly to refer to copy-editing, which is much more
detailed, although there is some overlap between the two.

In some environments this may be true. We make no distinction. We read
everything line by line, word by word and correct or highlight any errors
we see. We check for typos, spelling, punctuation, grammatical errors,
formatting errors and anything we see that may need to be corrected.

This is the final coat of polish your work needs to be the best it can be.
It puts the shine on it! It takes away the distraction that errors put in
the mind of the reader. It highlights the efforts of your hard work and
gives your work the respect it deserves.
Our rates start at $.005 per
word.
When you submit your work to the publisher…
Generally, the first few pages will determine whether it is accepted or not.
Many an author's work has been tossed aside due to errors in spelling,
grammar, punctuation, or poor sentence structure. Many times you are not
even told why. The reviewer has read many submissions and has a good
grasp of what will interest readers. He has seen many manuscripts
(sometimes too many), and poor editing will quickly cause him to lose
interest. Most will look at the errors and feel the author has not put
forward his best effort by the quality of what they see. Many an author's
work that may not be as good as yours was accepted because it was well
edited. Think about it. How many times have you been reading an article or
book and the errors distracted you to the point that you lost the meaning
of what you were reading?
Is A Good Edit important? You bet! Here is why…
Editing your own work is almost impossible. Your mind knows what you have
written, and that is what it sees. It knows what you meant to say. The
value of your book is determined by how well it is written, and that includes
the editing. Poor editing diminishes the overall readability of your writing.
You may lose the reader. You want the reader to see the value of your
work.
Take the time
to have your
writing edited
properly. It
will be money
well spent
.
Fiction
Non-fiction
Short stories
Autobiographies
Biographies
Self-help
Spiritual
Business
Children's
Poetry
E-books
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Website text
Give your
writing a
professional
polish.
Take the time to have your writing edited properly.
It will be money well spent
.
1213 Potomac Avenue
Hagerstown, MD 21742
Jim Long
Sue McConnell
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Our intent
…is to provide a simple and affordable service for writers. With the increase
in competition in the standard publishing venues and the availabilty of
self-publishing, it has become more and more important to have a proper
and professional edit of your work at an affordable price. We hope to
provide this. Select the
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Most other questions about our service can be answered by selecting the
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Need Help Getting Published?
Here are two interesting articles from writeandpublishyourbook.com

How to Find a Publisher for Your Book
How to Publish a Book - A Blow-by-Blow Summary

More information to help you can be found at Write and Publish Your
Book
or visit our resources page.
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