Welcome to CED Editorial Services
Welcome to my new website and pardon the dust while we build. This is your website resource for excellent freelance historical technical advice services. I have more than twenty-five years experience as a proofreader and historical technical adviser. I have edited, proofread and illustrated over 25 books and magazine articles, non-fiction and fiction.
About My Services
While I always use various industry-standard style manuals, I easily adapt to other house styles or author's preferences. To help you easily follow my input I use a hold-over from my engineering days, a color-coded system that allows the writer to quickly identified whether the entry is to be deleted (green), changed or added (red) or is a note from me to you (blue), usually some suggestions, technical detail, question or an observation. I can, if specifically requested, edit on hard copy using standard editing and proofreading marks. I normally perform such tasks as improving flow, correcting grammar, spelling (SpellCheck doesn't get them all) and punctuation, historical, technical and scientific facts, and many others. I will always discuss your project prior to accepting any work and will constantly be available for technical, historical or story line advice.
Rates
My rates are negotiable and affordable, depending on the complexity of the project and the required turnaround time. I am happy to charge by the hour, but am willing to charge by the page, chapter or entire project. Additional research/fact finding fees may apply. My rates are based on the Schedule of Common Rates specified by the Editorial Freelancers Association. In keeping with industry standards I consider one page as 250 words. Please contact me for my rates and a project quote.
Services Provided
Line editing
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Technical & Historical Adviser
Fact Checking & Research
Web Content Editing & Writing
Jacket Copy Writing & Editing
Project Consultation
Graphics & Technical Illustration Consulting
Copy Editing
Proofreading
Technical & Historical Adviser
Fact Checking & Research
Web Content Editing & Writing
Jacket Copy Writing & Editing
Project Consultation
Graphics & Technical Illustration Consulting
Genres
NON-FICTION:
- Historical (specializing in aviation and space subjects and military history)
- Wildlife and Ecology (specializing in ornithology, zoology and paleontology)
- Science and Technology (specializing in aerospace, naval, military, cosmology and many more specialty subjects)
- How-to books and technical documents
- Biographies. Memoirs and autobiographies
FICTION:
- Science Fiction, specializing in hard science fiction and steampunk, dieselpunk and rocketpunk sub-genres (please, no sword, sorcery or fantasy)
- Alternate History, both science fiction and historical fiction
- Mystery
- Techno-thriller
- Military fiction
- Historical fiction
PARANORMAL TOPICS (I must warn you though, I am an open-minded skeptic!):
- UFOs and other Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
- Conspiracy Theories (I will write and/or edit both pro and con sides, as long as they are not too outrageous)
- Cryptozoology
- Mysterious Aerial Disappearances