Ted Gilley Editing and Copy Writing

Editing, Proofreading and Writing Services

Basic copyediting includes correcting mistakes in spelling and grammar, reworking sentence elements as needed and examining sentence and paragraph structure for clarity and meaning.

Extensive editing goes deeper: paring sentences down, eliminating passive verbs and ambiguous pronouns, working on character and plot development; includes lots of feedback and suggestions.

Proofreading a print-ready document or page proofs (using a word list and/or style sheet) to catch typos, misspellings, and other errors.

Manuscript development includes a full critique plus analysis of direction, structure, and organization. Priced on a case-by-case basis.

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COST Basic copyediting is 1.5 cents per word. Extensive copyediting is 1.75 to 3.5 cents per word. Proofreading is $22 per hour. Rewriting is priced on a project basis.

For a free estimate, please submit via email attachment a three-page, double-spaced sample from your manuscript. Please use Times New Roman 12-point font in a Word (or Word for Mac) document only.

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COPY WRITING is $40 per hour. Please send a proposal via email.

I accept all major credit cards through PayPal. You do not need to have your own PayPal account to use this service. Payment is quick, easy, and safe.

CONTACT ME at ted(dot)gilley(at)gmail(dot)com.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Prairie Schooner Fiction Prize

I found out a couple of weeks ago that I've won the annual national fiction prize sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press and Prairie Schooner magazine.

An award of $3,000 accompanies publication of my book of short stories, Bliss, which will be out in the fall of 2010. Most of the stories in the collection were previously published in Northwest Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, the anthology Potlatch, and The Other Side.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Alehouse Press and Rattle magazine poetry awards

In September I won the Alehouse Press (San Francisco) annual poetry contest and was also an awarded finalist in Rattle magazine's 2008 poetry contest. My poem, "Pinocchio," chosen from a pool of 1,200 entries, will appear in Alehouse's January annual. Rattle will publish "The Tulip Tree" in December, along with another of my poems, "Virginia," which they accepted earlier in the year.

Friday, September 5, 2008

New England Review

My short story, "Bliss," appears in vol. 29 no. 3 of New England Review http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/current.html

Introduction

As a writer and editor with more than twenty years' experience, I've edited and proofed copy for major publishing houses such as Gale, Cengage Learning, Hudson Hills and Marquand and won awards for my nonfiction, poetry, short stories and story collection (see column opposite).

My work has been published in Poetry Northwest, New England Review, Free Verse, Prairie Schooner, The National Review, and many other magazines and anthologies.

"Ted is enormously gifted as a writer, teacher, and editor. Beautifully trained and finely tuned, he's perceptive to every nuance. I've trusted him with my writing, and that of my students, for many years."

Melissa Greene, Director, Write From the Heart workshops.