Book Doctor ~ Editor
Anita D. McClellan
From concept into print since 1988
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The ProcessThink of your writing self as a pole vaulter: clear high bars in a single jump, fall, get up, jump again. Work with me from anywhere using Microsoft Word's, OpenOffice.org Writer's, or Apple's iWorkPages' Track Changes--or in web-based docs.google.com. No lost packages or shipping charges; no incompatibility issues; no hard drive crashes. I am creative, insightful, a quick study, deadline driven, and market savvy.
• I shorten your priority list by delivering what you need on time and on budget. • I ask the right questions at the outset to grasp it the first time. • I absorb your materials and do any required research to produce it. • I am a nimble thinker who can shift gears easily based on your needs. • I focus on what your audience needs to hear. • I craft a product that meets your expectations and that pleases you. Q.: "What do you look for in authors beyond the quality of their manuscripts?"
A.: "Isn't that enough?" --J. Galassi, publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux All projects are guaranteed and held in strict confidentiality.
• I require prepaid deposit from all new clients. Project fees include research, thinking time, hands-on time; expenses include courier, printouts, copies, postage, toll calls, on-site work, travel, lodging. Jobs assigned within 48 hours or less from deadline incur rush fee at least 20% of total project cost, including jobs assigned Thursday or Friday for delivery Monday or Tuesday.
• If job is reconfigured after I start work, written project agreement and fee will be renegotiated. • If job is cancelled mid-project, I am entitled to full payment for all time spent up to my receipt of notice of cancellation. • If project is killed any time following completion of my work, I am entitled to full payment of my project fee. • Hereby be notified and advised that acceptance of any check in partial payment marked "final" or with any restrictive endorsement is merely deposited as a partial payment on account; such acceptance does not constitute an accord and satisfaction or our waiver of the right to balance in full for any account due and owing. • All writing assignments include two rounds of minor revisions; additional revisions charged at prevailing hourly rate. • Final balance in hand on delivery of completed project. Copyright © 2005-2010 Anita D. McClellan Associates, 464 Common St., Suite 142, Belmont, MA 02478 USA; (617) 575-9203--Email works better. All rights reserved. Literary consultancy only. BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ACCREDITED |
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