Bernadette Geyer offers a variety of editorial/proofreading services for both bricks-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 Manuscript Drafts/Galleys (note updated rate for this service)
$200.00 for a POETRY manuscript draft or galley of up to 75 pages in length (8.5" x 11" standard paper size, 1" margins, double-spaced, at least 11-point font size). Longer manuscripts may incur slightly higher fees. The $200.00 fee applies to each manuscript draft a poet wants to be proofread. Please contact for additional information.
Manuscript fee includes:* Proofreading for correct spelling* Proofreading for grammatical consistency* Proofreading for punctuation* Proofreading for formatting consistency* Will confirm/check table of contents and page numbers (if needed)Prose/Non-Fiction Manuscript Drafts/Galleys (note updated rate for this service)
Drafts or galleys of prose and non-fiction manuscripts follow the $2.50 per page fee (8.5" x 11" standard paper size, 1" margins, double-spaced, font size 11-point or higher). Fees apply to each manuscript draft. Please contact for additional information.
Manuscript fee includes:* Proofreading for correct spelling* Proofreading for grammatical consistency* Proofreading for punctuation* Proofreading for formatting consistency* Will confirm/check table of contents and page numbers (if applicable)Proofreading of a separate index will be charged at an additional $25/hr.
NOTE: If you are interested in more than proofreading, you may wish to find someone who can provide manuscript consultation services. Check the classified listings in Poets & Writers or The Writer's Chronicle.
ALSO NOTE : I do not proofread documents written by students for academic purposes, such as term papers or class assignments. To do so would render your "homework" to be not solely your own writing.
Press Release Writing Rates:
$75.00 for draft and follow-up changes.
Monthly Retainer Option:
If your small business has a regular need for proofreading services, I offer an option to be billed monthly for ongoing services.
