[Hidden-tech] Book editing

Alan Frank alan at 8wheels.org
Mon Dec 9 16:06:18 UTC 2019


Michael,

I am a fledgling indexer and would be interested in working with you on 
the inclusion of an index for your book.  I am sure we could work out 
something that's in your budget.

Alan

On 09.12.2019 05:57, Maria Williams via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm a professional book editor who would be happy to help. I've helped
> ready numerous books for traditional, self, and epublication.
> 
> You can learn more about me at www.mariawilliamseditor.com [1].
> 
> I can also advise you on eBook design and self-marketing.
> 
> Maria Williams
> 
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019, 9:57 PM Michael Lynch via Hidden-discuss
> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> 
>> I work with a technical editor named Samantha Mason. I've been a
>> happy client with her for over two years, and I've heard nothing but
>> positive feedback from everyone who has taken my recommendation to
>> work with her.
>> 
>> Here is her website:
>> 
>> https://www.samanthamasonfreelancer.com/
>> 
>> Here is a blog post I wrote explaining how I work with her and how
>> she influenced my writing:
>> 
>> https://mtlynch.io/editor/
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>> 
>> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:21 PM Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss
>> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> My gig is principally servicing the phpBB forum community. I'm
>>> working on a book, probably to be self published, to help phpBB
>>> forum administrators. I've asked a couple of tech book publishers,
>>> but it's too specialized to be marketable, apparently.
>>> 
>>> A draft is done and I'm editing it. I would like to have it
>>> professionally edited, but as I don't expect it to sell a huge
>>> number of copies, I can't quite justify spending large sums on
>>> editing it, probably something basic to clean it up and maybe
>>> format it better as it is pretty linear. Any royalties I expect
>>> will be in the four figure range, if it gets that high.
>>> 
>>> So I'm looking for recommendations for an editor of technical
>>> books and maybe for marketing it too. I get plenty of hits on my
>>> website so I suspect most people will buy it there, but I'm new to
>>> the whole eBook thing and how to market it so some help there
>>> would be nice.
>>> 
>>> Right now it's just a 300 page or so document in LibreOffice
>>> Writer.
>>> 
>>> Appreciate any qualified leads.
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