Bernadette Geyer offers a variety of editorial/proofreading services for both sticks-and-mortar businesses, as well as home-based and entrepreneurial businesses:
Experience:
With more than 15 years of public relations/marketing experience, Bernadette Geyer is the former Director of Outreach Programs for the US Fuel Cell Council. She also served for two years as Associate Editor of WordWrights literary journal, and is former Editor-in-Chief of The Word Works, an independent, literary non-profit in the Washington, DC, area.
Geyer has extensive experience writing, proofreading and editing:
* technical newsletters
* corporate brochures
* annual business directories
* book galleys
* web site content
* fact sheets / white papers
* press releases
* and more...
Press releases written by Geyer have resulted in articles in or interviews with global media outlets including Wired, Autoweek, Financial Times (London edition), and United Press International.
In her positions at WordWrights and The Word Works, Geyer has performed editing/proofreading duties on chapbooks, full-length books and literary magazines. Works proofread include Crow's Eye View, a full-length collection of Lee Sang's poems and prose, translated by Myong-Hee Kim. Geyer also proofread the poetry collections: One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train, by Michael Atkinson, Eight Pale Women, by James Hopkins, and Phoenix Suites, by Miles Waggener, as well as several other poetry collections and organization newsletters.
Proofreading Rates:
Business Documents / Non-fiction / Creative Writing
$2.50 per page ($4.00 per page for technical documents). $10.00 minimum charge.
Poetry Manuscripts/Galleys
$100.00 for a manuscript/galley up to 75 pages in length. Longer manuscripts may incur slightly higher fees. Please contact for additional information.
Press Release Writing Rates:
$50.00 for 1st draft; $10/round for edits/changes.
Monthly Headliner Industry Newsletter:
$2000 / month - includes research, writing, editing, formatting in Microsoft Word, 5-7 pages including table of contents, acknowledgements. For examples of my work, visit:
Other Projects:
For other editorial/writing services, I am happy to discuss rates on a per project basis.
Monthly Retainer Option:
If you have a regular need for proofreading services, I offer an option to be billed monthly for ongoing services.
