YOUNG
WRITERS: Special "stuff" for you lurks in the Meyowfers Lair!
September 1, 2009:
Temporary Hiatus For RindaCareWords!
Due to her own writing work
load and her teaching work, Rinda will not be accepting
editorial contracts until September 1,
2009.
Rinda's editing style is a positive,
non-invasive, nurturing one. She should be invisible as a
helper when her work is done. Only your words and your
personality should shine then. YOUR words! Not hers.
*WRITERS: Go here for in-depth
information about copy editing services for your manuscripts
and proofreading services for your book galleys. Writer
helps are included. Rinda will be the only one caring for your
words. For more information about her, see the FAQ page. You
will be billed immediately after your manuscript is edited.
*PUBLISHERS/WEBSITE MANAGERS:
Arrange individual copy editing and/or proofreading contracts
with Rinda at: rindambyers@hotmail.com. Rinda will be the only person caring for
your words. Also ask her about copywriting for your
company. You will be billed monthly.
*RINDA'S CREATIVE
WRITING: Ask Rinda about copywriting for your
company.
If you are a publisher or an editor
interested in buying Rinda's own creative writing, fiction and
nonfiction, write to her at rindambyers@hotmail.com.
REFERENCES:
References are available, through private inquiry, at mailto:rindambyers@hotmail.com..
OTHER QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: Rinda
will not respond to non-business-related questions and/or comments
at the e-mails listed above. For technical problems with this
website and/or inquiries about your use of content in RindaRealm,
see rindarealm@hotmail.com..
Please leave all
other types of questions and/or comments in the comment box of
Rinda's blog at rindawriter. She monitors her blog
regularly, several times a week, for comments.
Rinda uses her
blog for her own creative, idea-making place in cyberspace and does
not focus on copy editing or proofing it.
*GENRES NOT ACCEPTED BY
RINDACAREWORDS: Rinda does not read horror, vampire novels, or
books dealing with the occult or pornography. She will not work
on manuscripts in these genres.
PAYMENT PROCESS FOR
INDIVIDUAL WRITERS ONLY: Currently, Rinda accepts payment from
individual writers through PayPal online or by personal check.
You will be sent an invoice promptly by e-mail when your
manuscript is finished. After you have paid, your edited
work will be promptly returned to you via e-mail or snail mail, as
you prefer. You will receive one late notice only.
Continued delay in paying your bill means that your work will
be returned to you unedited. You will also not be able to use
Rinda's services again--permanently. See below if you wish a
consult with Rinda.
CONFIDENTIALITY: Rinda
maintains the strictest confidentiality with her clients. Your
private information of any kind, including what you write or
dictate, will not be shared with anyone. Rinda's
references have been freely given to her to share with others, but
even these are not made public on her website.
STYLE
MANUALS: Rinda is most familiar with the"Gregg Reference Manual,
which conforms in all essentials to the Chicago Manual of Style,
but she is experienced in using other style manuals as well.
Please inform her about any style manual
preferences.
 ABOUT RINDA M. BYERS:
Rinda's
goal, as the owner of a small business, has always been to develop
long-term relationships with satisfied clients. If you are not
happy with her work, she will politely return your money
and end her professional relationship with you so that she can
devote her time to fulfilling the needs of her other clients.
Rinda has
been copy editing and transcribing the words of other
people for over twenty years. Her specialty has been
formal reports and letters for doctors, psychiatrists, and mental
health therapists--people who are highly educated and with little
tolerance of sloppy work from others. However, she has also,
along the way, always done copy editing and writing consults
for writers and non-medical businesses, and it is in these more
personal areas that she is now concentrating her skills.
In medical transcription, a small
mistake in a medication dosage, for example, can cause
negative consequences for both doctor and patient. This is
why, if doctors and psychiatrists have entrusted their words to
Rinda's care, you can be assured that she will take the very best
care of your words as well! She is a lover of children's
books especially, both as a reader and a writer.
Rinda
brings to the copy editing process an unusual empathy for other
writers and a deep understanding of the writing process and its
difficulties. She loves to encourage talent in others.
It's satisfying for her to see someone else blossom as a
writer.
Her formal
education includes a B.A. in sociology, with minors in history,
early child development, and theology, from a private, Christian,
liberal-arts college, Seattle Pacific University, but Rinda took copy
editing courses for twelve months, full-time, in order to learn this specific skill.
She has now been using it for over twenty years in her own
business and in her own creative writing.
Again, Rinda has
always enjoyed working closely with other people and their writing.
She is respectful of other people's personalities and writing
styles and is gentle with their words. Her goal is to
make their writing look as polished as possible!
COPY EDITING
DISCLAIMER:
Rinda does not ghost write
or book doctor other people's books into profitable
publication. She creates and polishes
and sells her own manuscripts by herself, privately. She
does, however, copy edit other people's words.
She proofreads book galleys for publishers and
writers. She transcribes dictated words into
proper formats that are free of technical errors.
She corrects things like grammar, punctuation, and
spelling in other people's writing. She checks facts for
accuracy and points out incongruities. She also looks
for other problems in people's writing such as sloppy
sentences, excessively complicated sentences, and improperly
used words. She will do copywriting for
businesses.
In summary then, Rinda
will make your words--and you--look as professional as
possible, but she will not create nor sell your words for you!
She is not a literary agent. She is not an
acquisitions editor with any publishing house. You, and
only you, are the best judge of where your own work fits into
the publishing marketplace. Only you can choose what editors
can best help you to revise your work. Only you can
decide whether or not you need a
literary agent to help you sell your work. And only you
can decide whether or not your words might need, at some point
in your writing career, the help of a copy editing
professional such as Rinda.
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