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2 Chapters of Christian MS need editing

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Posted over 13 years ago

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I need to hire a native English speaking copy-editor who has experience editing Christian manuscripts. I need editing done for the first two sample chapters of a book that I am currently preparing to propose to several publishers. The word count of these two chapters combined will total around 9,000 to 10,00 words. I would prefer to hire someone who is a Christian, since the book is a Biblical devotional for artists and designers with a very particular Christian emphasis and guided theme. The point is, I need an editor who knows enough about Christianity to confidently edit and suggest alternate wordings of Christian concepts when necessary. I will also give special attention to any bidders who have edited Christian manuscripts. The MS has been edited several times by myself and by a few friends, but I think it would benefit from a good professional grammar check. Any formatting suggestions will also be very helpful. In order to bid, please take a look at one of the samples attached and select three paragraphs to edit. Send your proposed edits and any other advice you would professionally offer along with your bid. Thanks and Happy Bidding!
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For $200, I will provide an in-depth edit, including both spelling/grammar check and content analysis and critique. Please see my PM for details.
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Clear and effective writing, editing and research services. Thanks for the opportunity to bid on your project. My bid is $250 for flawlessly editing 10,000 words of Christian text. Please see my edited sample of your text cut-and-pasted below. Also, I've attached a recent press release written for Religems. Thanks again for the opportunity to bid on your project! Ed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Angelic mixing decks cue Heavenly songs; you shall hear the divine crew singing ancient hymns upon your arrival. Wait... Are your ears plugged with sand and your eyes closed to the light?!? Has your innocence been abandoned under under wet newspapers, coffee rings, cigarette butts, and moldy bread crumbs? Tired Traveler, have you forgotten about the palace of peace where the party never stops? Were you never told of the river of love that runs through every created thing? No need to fret, for He has come to ignite your spirit. The Holy Spirit is surely a firebomb of power, a river of creative endorphins that, once dropped, will send a flow of possibilities to overflow your mind and "repo" your spirit. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus Himself, will be released to swim through all of reality as His domain and realm of influence. It is He, God in three persons that will be present at once when you call to Him. But sadly, for many, the Holy Spirit is left inactive, unused and instead remains shrouded in petty human fears. People rely first on logic, then on Spirit. Then when logic fails they find some sense in the pursuit of happiness. Then, when happiness continues to evade, a final downtrodden spirit sets in, one of bitter taste. These people are hard inside and out, not shining inner light, nor even reflecting faint glimmerings of Christ. I know many Christians who have slowly turned into sap running down the side of God’s great tree, no longer even believing it possible to bear spiritual fruit. Let me offer a solution: Place your belief not in history, nor in frail human concepts, nor in ideas and theories; place your ambition not in fleeting pleasure, but in the Righteous One who will come to dwell with you... <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Please see the private message board for more details of my bid.
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Need help proof-reading and copy-editing your publisher-bound Christian devotional manuscript? Looking for high-quality delivery, quick turnaround and less cost? I have copy-edited a wide variety of manuscripts at the Random House outsourcing service in the Philippines. I edited a Quiet Time devotional series too.
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I would like to help you and am available right now. Please check your inbox for edited sample.
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Please see PMB.
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I have been published in four different christian magazines and believe I am capable of this job. I do not have any editing experience other than editing my own, and when I worked for newspaper, I did alot of this. I think I should be able to handle this in a work weeks time and $150 seems good to me. Thanks
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Hi, I am interested. Thanks.
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I am excited to work with you on this project 80+ wpm statistical typist with 30+ years of secretarial, word processing, transcription, desktop publishing, and website maintenance skills. My last employment with a healing ministry included the layout of 7 books printed/published through out outside source and 14 mini-booklets that were printed in-house. My bid is based on these two chapters, knowing that multiple edits/revisions may be required. You can never proofread enough.
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Hello, I am a broadcast journalist and editor, with Christian beliefs who has done a lot of research on the topics of faith and worship. Would be keen to work on your manuscript before it is sent to publishers. Thanking you in advance for your consideration. Vanessa Hart Miller
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Hello! I'm interested in editing your sample chapters. I'm Roman Catholic, and a freelance copy editor: I can make text more readable while preserving the original voice. I've included some samples to show what I can do. Thank you, Joe Galindez
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8 years' experience as an in-house proofreader for a publishing company. No VAT. Please find attached a selection of what I think are my most helpful suggestions for improvements [between square brackets] (from sample 1) THE REFINERS [REFINER’S] FRACTAL FIREBOMB [...] The Holy Spirit is surely a firebomb of power, a river of creative endorphins that [+ ,] once dropped, will send a flow of impossibilities to overgrow your mind and re-posses [repossess] your spirit. [...] The Holy Spirit is surely a firebomb of power, a river of creative endorphins that [+ ,] once dropped, will send a flow of impossibilities to overgrow your mind and re-posses [re-possess or repossess] your spirit. [...] Instead of [+ on] the Spirit people rely first on logic. [...] Though your waters [water’s] edge lay littered with debris of fear, guilt, or anxiety, know that these troubles are no match for the atomic bomb of kingdom power Christ has planned to drop upon your willing spirit. (from sample 2) The yield of tomorrow is in no way dependant [dependent] on your careful strategy and plan, but only upon God’s will for your life. [...] Know that through trusting in the mystery of God that [Delete this second ‘that’.] your yield is not guaranteed or limited by frail humanity, but by God, the gracious and all-powerful Maker of all things. [...] Though I am no expert in the area, I happen to know that if faith is denied, something must replace it’s [its] structure [+ ,] and that something is going to be the work of the human mind. [...] Quite obviously, you possess a body that thinks thoughts, but you are not your body nor your thoughts, but [ Replace ', but' by: ;] you are human spirit whom [who] is a possessor of both. You are an I Am branching off from the great I Am That I Am. Your spirit is made alive by it’s [its] continual feeding of [off (or ‘on). Quotation from Oxford dictionary of English: ‘feed on/off: derive regular nourishment from (a particular substance) : the bird feeds on cliff-top vegetation | figurative his powerful mind fed off political discussion.’] a vital force called the breath of God; the lifestuff [life stuff] of God.
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