Now offering proofreading, editing, and writing services

I offer the following services via email only. Documents must be in Word format. Price and turnaround time varies depending on service and length of document; please feel free to contact me at twynkltoz@yahoo.com for an estimate or to request my services.

Proofreading
This service is best for writing that is already polished and just needs another eye to catch typos and spelling mistakes. Service is fast and economical.

Your cost: $3.00 per page*, $10 per 1000 words.

Basic Copy Editing
This service covers basic proofreading as well as correction of minor grammatical mistakes. I will make the corrections in your document, highlighted so that you can easily find them.

Your cost: $5.40 per page*, $18 per 1000 words.

Moderate to Extensive Rewriting
This option is for the author who has the ideas but not the writing skills to present them in their best light! I will restructure sentences and paragraphs, improve wording, and make suggestions or ask questions to help develop the piece.

Your cost: $15.00 per page*, $50 per 1000 words.

Ghost Writing**—Writing Only
You provide the research, story lines, key phrases, etc., and I’ll write your piece for you.

Your cost: $18.00 per page*, $60 per 1000 words.

Ghost Writing**—Research and Writing
You provide the ideas, I do the research and the writing.

Your cost: $25.00 per page*, $83 per 1000 words

*Page estimates based on standard manuscript form (using courier new size 12 and double-spaced lines) at 300 words/page. For most accurate estimate, use actual word count. All prices in US dollars.

**20% discount for “as told to” ghost writing.

Associated Content

There's a bit of a debate about content submission sites, whether they're good for freelance writers or not. After reading about people who have gotten their start as writers on Associated Content, I decided to give it a try! Please visit my profile at Associated Content and click on the articles. Tell your friends! I have a number of articles in queue so more will be added almost daily (at least until I run out of ideas). Please feel free to give me any article ideas you'd like to see me write about!

Time to get serious

I have decided that I am going to start really focusing on making writing my career. It'll be a while before I can quit my day job of writing board reports for my mutual fund company (well, at least it's writing), so for now I'll start with some freelancing to earn extra money and expand my resume.

I'm exploring several options, including articles and offering proofreading, editing, and writing services. One site that seems like easy money is www.brijit.com. This site offers abstracts of news articles so that you can get the gist of a lot of news in just a few minutes, or decide whether an article interests you enough to give it a full read. Here is one of my absracts that was accepted and published:

The Debate on California's Pot Shops -

Big surprise: medical marijuana in California is being obtained by people who just want to get high. Safer reports on marijuana clubs, set up to produce pot for AIDS patients and cancer sufferers, that are systematically being abused by people who don't actually need the drug. One supporter-turned-critic thinks the feds should step in to weed out the troublemakers. This 60 Minutes treatment is of barely mild interest, mercifully short, and doesn't break any new ground.
in 60 Minutes by Morley Safer, 23 September 2007
This abstract was edited by Brijit. Read more here...

Big news!

I have lots of big news to report! In the writing world, my article "Thirty-year-olds Don't Bounce" appeared this month (July) in Ride! and modern Arabian Horse magazines! On the home front, we bought our first home and moved in earlier this month. On August 9th, we fly to Seattle for our Alaskan cruise. Some day things will settle down!

Announcement! I have finished my first book! I think this is the first time I've committed to doing something this major and finished it! I'm very happy with it and my beta readers have received it well. I'm shopping for agents!

Seminole blog

"Get a blog," they told me, so I did. What the heck is a blog?

Hi, my name is Jennifer Walker, and I'm a writer. I'm also a rider, and a dancer, and a senior analyst, and a mother and a wife and a sister and a daughter. Hey, I'm like that song that every girl on the planet thinks is about her!

I've known how to write since I was about 6 or so, but never really thought about doing it voluntarily until a few months ago, when I decided that it was about time that I make my fortune. I need to support myself and my family in the manner to which we should become accustomed! To that end, I started writing some articles and am working on a novel. More on that later! Somewhere on this page I'll find a place to post links. My family says I'm funny, so it must be true...therefore, my articles are an attempt at a humorous outlook on my life. Most of them are about horses, unless I can't think of anything about horses at the moment I happen to be writing something.

Here goes nothing...PUBLISH!