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About Our Business | Services | Rates | About Diane | Contact Us Recently, we learned some sad and shocking news. Our editor, Diane Domingo, passed away. She died unexpectedly, just a few days after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Diane was a great lady with a huge heart. She was also an excellent mentor to many and integral to the launch of our web site. She's already missed. If any of you who knew Diane would like to write to her family and offer your condolences, you can reach them at her daughter's email address: tierneyqotw@earthlink.net. Her name is Alison Domingo. -Jennifer Minar
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Your manuscript is your unique creation, and BookShelf Editing respects that. The BookShelf Editing strives to teach as well as edit, so that your next writing experience will be smoother and more polished. Edits are made within your document, along with a separate page of explanations, when warranted, so that you can understand how to avoid those pitfalls in the future. All manuscripts get personal attention from Diane. No assistants or outside readers are used. She offers affordable rates and can assure prompt, personal, and caring service. Communication is ongoing during and after editing is complete, if needed. Additional editing notes focus on weak and strong points and overall manuscript. Free sample edit and estimates now available. Freelancers: Please ask about discounted packages. Please email Diane for requirements to arrange a sample edit.
Many publishing houses have fewer editors than in the past, but are dealing with more books. This leaves each publishing house editor with less time to spend on acquired manuscripts. More than ever before, they are looking for manuscripts that are already concise and well-written, so that the only changes that need to be made are minor ones, and those conforming to house style. It is in your interest to submit the best manuscript you can. That is where an experienced freelance editor can help you.
Proofreading Offered only for your well-written article or manuscript, as a back-up check. No editing notes given. If your manuscript cannot be proofed correctly due to more than the occasional grammatical error, you will have the option of having it returned with no work done, or you may choose one of the other editing categories. 1/2 cent per word. Light Editing Check spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, placement, and mechanics. Changes made within manuscript. No editing notes given. 1 cent/word. Medium Editing Check spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, placement, and mechanics. Changes made within manuscript. Extensive editing notes and instruction given. 1.5 cent/word. Heavy Editing All of the above, plus content and story structure, continuity, consistency and clarity. 2-3 cents/word depending on your manuscript. Extensive editing notes given. Content If you want no editing done, but your manuscript or article read for an overall critique, citing weak and strong points, pricing is on an individual basis depending on the work. Please contact Diane for more information. Web Site Editing Any or all of the four services listed above can be done to sharpen your online presence.. Links are checked to be sure they aren't broken and go to the correct place. Services can be done on a one time basis, or on a regular basis for websites that change content or add links often. Please contact Diane for details and hourly rates.
Her current projects include editing Industry News @-a-Glance, a retail pharmacy news publication that goes out to over 14,000 industry executives three times each week, as well as Writer's Break, a web site and monthly ezine for fiction and creative non-fiction writers. She regularly edits articles for freelance web and magazine writers and is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association. Articles she has edited have appeared in travel, food, writing and parenting magazines. Diane can be contacted at bookshelf-editing@earthlink.net.
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"Diane's
editorial skills made my articles shine. Thanks
to her, I got published in two different magazines."
character and tone of your writing is preserved while being tightened and honed. 
Editor and author, Diane Domingo has been educated in colleges in Michigan and California with a heavy background in English studies. After retiring from fifteen years in the nursing profession, she spent eleven years as a librarian, then began her own editing and writing career in earnest. She has nine completed novels and a tenth in progress. 