Hi Lauren,
Thanks for your email. Mark has told me a bit about your project - it sounds really interesting and I’d be happy to work with you to copyedit the essays for this project. I’d love to hear more about the project itself from you as well!
In terms of my experience, I’ve been working as a copyeditor for about fifteen years. I spent a decade in the academic book publishing industry as a managing editor, during which time I helped authors develop their manuscripts for publication, as well as doing contract copyediting work. Since I left book publishing (about five years ago) I’ve been working freelance as an editor (developmental/copy and proofreading), writer, and consultant (I’ve worked with individual authors to develop their work for publication, most of whom were either academics or working in non-fiction, in addition to working on a few artist statements and texts). I also teach both academic writing and advanced editing at the University of Winnipeg. I’m familiar with APA, MLA, and Chicago styles, and have experience working with anthologies and co-authored texts (which require some work in maintaining consistency across a text while retaining the voices of individual authors).
My schedule is relatively flexible over the coming months, and could begin to take on editing work as early as January 30th. While it’s usually best to edit a collection all together, I am happy to work essay-by-essay if time is a factor. What I’d need from you is the total number of essays (it looks like 6 or 7?), the approximate word count of the front/back matter, and your timeline in terms of when you need the final copyedited texts returned. From there I could send along a contract laying all of that out, along with my rate - I charge $0.03/word for copyediting, plus GST. (So, for approximately 27,000 words, that amounts to about $850.50 [CDN]). Once the contract is squared away, you could send along the essays that are ready to go and I could get started.
Let me know if you have any other questions. I’d be happy to chat over the phone/Zoom if you’d prefer, as well.
Best,
Jessica
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Jessica Antony (she/her)
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