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    Marketing: Editing Your Work

    This is the second post in 3-part series on crafting your work for the marketplace. See the previous post here. What does editing have to do with marketing? Well, since the quality of your product will affect its "saleability," you need some quality control measures. Publishing houses just don't have the resources to do extensive edits on the mountain of submissions they receive. They routinely reject manuscripts...
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    Marketing: Who Is Your Customer?

    This is the first in a series of marketing posts dealing with crafting your product for the marketplace. Subscribe to the blog feed to get the updates as they are posted. You are a writer. You’d like to get your work published. If you are a beginning writer, your best chance to get published quickly is to submit short pieces to magazines. You might produce articles, short stories, puzzles, and poems. I...
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    Marketing: Selling and Re-Selling

    This is the last of three posts on crafting your product for the marketplace. Previous posts were “Editing Your Work” and “Who Is Your Customer?” Writing for peanuts---that's what you'll be doing if you sell each article, story, or poem only once. You may be tempted to skip this article if you’re still trying to get your first piece published. Resist the temptation, because, once you do sell something, you can sel...
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    Book Review: Teach Yourself Grammar and Style

    Full title: Macmillan Teach Yourself Grammar and Style in 24 Hours, by Pamela Rice Hahn and Dennis E. Hensley, Ph.D., published by Pearson Education Macmillan USA, 2000. Have you wanted to attend a writers’ conference but couldn’t afford it? Have you considered online courses but passed on them for the same reason? Consider getting a copy of this book, and give yourself a thorough workshop on the basics of wr...
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Editorial Services

Beginning writers, publishers, business owners—choose the level of service you need. Then contact me for a quote:

  • Proofreading, including typographical errors, spelling and usage, grammatical errors.
  • Copy-editing (nonfiction), including logic, continuity, sources, organization.
  • Rewriting (nonfiction), includes rewriting existing text, notes, or transcriptions. Copy-edit and proofread included after rewriting is done.

NEW! Article/Devotional Critique Service

Beginning writers who have attempted to get their work published without success might benefit from having their work critiqued by a published writer. I specialize in magazine articles and devotionals. Let me help you prepare your article or devotional for the market.

Fee: $15.00 per item described below:

  • Single article, 1000-1500 words
  • Group of devotionals, maximum of four, 250-300 words each.
  • Group of short articles, 500-600 words each, maximum of two.

E-mail me at akinemily[a]gmail.com for submission and payment instructions. Please allow at least one week from the time I receive your work and payment until I return your critique.

Editing Experience

  • Publications Chairperson for Kentucky Christian Writers Conference, 2007-2008.
  • The Grapevine, monthly newsletter for the Eddie Cox Senior Center, published by France Printing, Union City, TN.
  • WestNetWorks, newsletter for WestNet, a leadership program for West Tennessee, sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Martin and TVA.
  • The Profit Page, newsletter for Crop Production Services.
  • Editor of “Senior Grapevine” section, Hometown of the Ken-Tenn Area.