JESSICA
SCHMEIDLER The Write Shadow
Just write it. PROFESSIONAL WORDSMITH: EDITOR, GHOSTWRITER, COPYWRITER, NOVELIST, BLOGGER.
2015 SERVICES BROCHURE
PROFESSIONAL EDITING SERVICES
The Write Shadow
You deserve it. Writing a manuscript is no small task. You’ve invested hours of your time, quite possibly equating to weeks, months, or even years. You are anxious to get that manuscript out to agents and publishing houses ready to share it with the world. Don’t let that excitement be your biggest hurtle for a book deal.
“SPOT ON!”
Client referals are the best thank you.
The best way to waste all the time you put into your manuscript is to try to save time trying to get it out to the world.
SPECIAL SAVINGS CODE 101: Many people put on their resolution list, but never quite get around to it. Then that dream either fades away to never become realized, or it gets started only to be pushed into a drawer and forgotten about later. By opening this brochure, you have already gotten farther than the vast majority of hopefuls. You deserve to give your manuscript, and all the time you invested into it, the best possible chance at publication.
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At the very least, you should want to know what its merits are. These services are for those with a completed manuscript that want to know, “Is my manuscript ready for submission? Would someone publish this?” Aren’t you ready to find out?
JUST WHAT YOU NEED, NOTHING YOU DON’T.
Manuscript Critique
Many evaluations offered are no more than merely paid book reviews. The critique I offer is a report of 3,000 words that takes an in depth look at your plot, character development, style, readership, marketability, and more.
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Query Review & Edit
Pitch Critique & Revise
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Those of you who have taken my blog workshop or have been through the workshop I co-host, will know that your query is the outfit you wear to the interview. I can help you find a style that matches your personality and your manuscript.
Twitter pitch parties are an exciting, new way to find a home for you manuscript. Whether you’re trying to court an agent or editor, you want to be sure your pitch sets the proper expectations. Let a wordsmith hammer it into submission.
By investing in a full read and evaluation of your manuscript, along with query and pitch preperation, you ensure that you are creating the right forward progression throughout the submissions process.
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HOW YOUR BUSINESS BENEFITS FROM A BLOG A blog is a private conversation between yourself and the world. Imagine sitting down in a coffee shop and simply rattling off everything you know about a subject. That, my dear friends, is sort of like a blog. That might make you feel silly, but it also shows that you’re alive and you have something worthwhile to say. What do you look for in a company when you consider investing in it? Vitality, growth, and industry performance. You can showcase each of these through a blog. There’s a lot of competition out there. We are a global market. You’re either merely a plague on the wall, or you have an open door with a sign saying, “Come on in! We’re doing great, and we’re open for business!”
Quality GUARANTEE 100% Satisfaction I strive to make every post one that you will be proud to call your own.
REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS
Time, effort, and perseverance. Blogging can be a great way to build your email list, increase your business’s symbolic capital, or be a source of passive income. None of these, however, happen overnight. You must stick with it, constantly providing new and useful content to your readers. That’s where a professional blogger comes in. A professional blogger is often thought of
as only the person who owns the successful blog. In reality, many (if not most) successful blogs are managed by an owner and their content is mostly produced by professional writers. All copyrights to the material written for the blog remain those of the blog owner. This frees the site owner from the daily task of content creation, so that they can spend their
time running their business. Thinking up with a new post every day can be a real struggle for anyone. When it often takes months, or years, to truly turn a blog from “just another web log” into something profitable, having someone else do the writing is a sound delegation of responsibilities if you are serious about the benefits of blogging.
WHAT A BLOGGER OFFERS Fresh content.
Consistency.
Google scores you by Freshness updates, which are determined partially by user activity. See Google’s patent: “ Document Scoring Based on Document Content Update.”
Most experts recommend that a new blog posts fresh content three to five times a week on a consistent basis. Some suggest once a day, seven days a week, but they all recommend they are posted consistently.
Trade skills.
Personalized posts; not broker material.
Did you know the reader’s eye follows an “F” pattern as it views online material? How much is too much SEO? A professional blogger knows.
Your brand, your business, your blog. What does your blog have to offer that no one else’s does? Don’t use content designed to work for any blog.
When you can look someone right in the eye and shake their hand with confidence, you create trust. That’s a blog.
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GHOSTWRITING
writeShadow it. The Just Write
I’m going to tell you a secret...
“A KEEN “A WRITER WITH EYE.” A KEEN EYE”
Ghostwriting isn’t for sissies or egotists. It’s also not just for full-length novels.
A REFERALL MAKES THE Client referals are BEST THANK YOUS.
The unglamorous reality is that ghostwriting encompasses everything from non-credited web content writing all the way to 100K word manuscripts.
the best thank you.
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I have always adored wordplay, but have never been one to like letting the world get close to me. As a result, ghostwriting has become my passion. I don’t long to see my name on a book or on by-line, but I revel in watching the happiness my passion brings to others when they do.
YOUR NAME, YOUR OPTIONS UNBREAKABLE HEARTS Secrets don’t make friends. Whether or not you want someone to know you have retained assistance is completely up to you. Your options: 1. Ghostwriting, as told to 2. Ghostwriting, no credit (common) 3. Ghostwriting, with credit (new option) 4. Collaborative, nonfiction book writing Secondary options: 1. Manuscript 2. Small Industry Book, and/or white pages 3. Web Content
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Loyalty IT’S OUR SECRET Credibility.
Always our little secret. I don’t write and tell.
YOU WRITE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF OTHERS WHAT’S BURNING INSIDE YOU. AND WE EDIT TO LET THE FIRE SHOW THROUGH THE SMOKE. ~ ARTHUR PLOTNIK
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FULL MANUSCRIPT EDITS
Success starts here.
Professional Editor NECESSARY IF YOU PLAN TO:
SELF-PUBLISH. SUBMIT FULL.
PUBLISHERS RELY ON EDITORS FOR A REASON. Your mind sees what the heart demands.
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me who the publisher is of your favorite book. Chances are, you can’t. That’s because people become fans of , not publishers. They don’t go into a bookstore and say, “Hey, can you tell me what the latest release is from The Big Boys Publishing House?” When you open a book, you don’t flip to the copyright page, and say, “Eh. These guys never publish good stuff.” However, when you pick up a book at your nearest Barnes & Noble, you do so with certain expectations: few, if any, typos; good, if not great, writing; strong plot--basically, you assume if it’s on the shelf it’s been measured and found
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ITHOUT LOOKING, TELL
worthy. With a self-published book, you may buy it becuase the blurb sounds good, you know the author, or the cover is endearing. You may hope it turns out to be a good book, but your expectations aren’t as locked in. What’s the difference? The publisher’s ability to put it on a shelf? No. The difference is that you trust if it’s been published by a traditional publisher, it’s been edited. (Kudler, David. "7 If you truly want to don the hat of Deadly Myths and 3 Inspired Truths About “publisher,” you need to take a lead from Book Editing." TheHuffingtonPost.com) the industry: don’t publish an unedited book.
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EDITING LEVELS DEFINED Manuscript Evaluation
Content/Substative Edits
A 3,000+ word report on the current state of your manuscript. This includes overall publishing appeal, genre and readership expectations, style, plot, character building, and structure assessment.
Content edits include word choice, transitions, flow, diaolgue, scene descriptions–those things that are content-specific. These are the edits that seperate the strong from the weak when it comes to the editor pool.
Developmental Edits
Line Edits
These types of edits have to do with the overarching elements in your novel, such as point-of-view choices, character development, and plot. Basically, this is the “to do” that arise from the manuscript evaluation.
Syntax, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and other persnicketytype edits. Also called proofreading editings, line editing is the most well-known form of edits.
My Process 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Manuscript Evaluation Developmental Edits Content Edits Repeat #3, if necessary Line edits
Most self-publishers have realized that editors aren’t just for the traditionally published anymore. If you want to be taken seriously as an author, you need a manuscript that competes on the technical level of traditionally published books. Likewise, with the surge of self-published authors, many acquisitions editors look for books that require as little editing as possible (time-cost analysis). If you are serious about the success of your manuscript, hiring a professional editor is a must. Not sure if your manuscript has enough merit to sink editing dollars into? That’s why the manuscript evaluation is always step one.
BOOKS AREN'T WRITTEN, THEY'RE REWRITTEN. INCLUDING YOUR OWN. IT IS ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS TO ACCEPT, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE SEVENTH REWRITE HASN'T QUITE DONE IT. MICHAEL CRICHTON
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