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[Natalie]

Great segue into a brief intro: I always characterize myself as a word nerd. Favorite book, she blushed: the dictionary (do y'all get lost in it, too, after looking up what you came for?). Job: copy editor of this and that through the years. Friends: other wordies, mostly; when our kids were small, one little boy thought that all mommies were editors. Lately: fixing - and sometimes writing! - my kids' college papers (last semester was rough . . . I'm getting too old for this!)
I have 3 girls and 3 boys, which sounds way more organized than I really am. My youngest daughter - 19 - lives at home while in school, next 2 sons usually come home for week-ends. Oh, home is Rockland County in upstate NY, quite snowy lately.
One daughter is married w/ a 1-yr-old, so I'm in Grandma heaven. One pundit said that grandchildren are the reward parents get for not killing their kids: I couldn't agree more . . .
Question: I imagine there are some free-lance editors in this crowd . . . Allowing for regional differences, would anyone happen to know the going rate? I've just been approached to help with a work-in-progress, co-authors who need me as motivator/organizer/arbitrator in addition to the usual. I've only tackled finished work before: any ideas how to go about pricing such a thing? Thanks!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Natalie.....and thanks for the peek into your world. I think you will fit right in!

[Natalie]

We all know that Dr. Seuss 1st christened the good ship Nerd - a character in one of his early stories - don't we? Appropriately so . . . who doesn't love Oh! The Places You'll Go & You"re Only Old Once?

[Ken, Moderator]

Welcome Natalie! Sorry, but I know zilch about copy editing pay. You probably could command more in NYC than in Rockland County, however. No clue what county it's in, but my wife's grandmother lived in Holly, NY -- that's all the way up by one of the Greats!

And what's this about writing a college paper for your kids? Editing, I could see... but WRITING IT? This calls for an ethics investigation! =)

[Ruth]

I copyedited a book in 1999. 128 pages, for which I was paid $250.

[Natalie]

I was wondering which one of you English teachers would challenge that! Yes, I did in fact write four - whew! - lit papers this semester for two kids (in toto, said Dorothy) , , , Usually, I insist on a decent 2nd draft - handing it back if I see they've been lazy - but there were extenuating circumstances, as they say, with which I won't bore you, so: let not your heart be troubled . . . or, as my S African friends say, don't get your panties in a twist!

[Natalie]

Ruth wrote: "I copyedited a book in 1999. 128 pages, for which I was paid $250.

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Thanks, Ruth . . . can I ask you where you live and what was the condition of the MS?

[Ruth]

I'm in California, Natalie. The writer was in Delaware. The MS was in great shape. Most of my corrections had to do with asking her to clarify. I have to add that she was a friend, and that I am not a professional copyeditor.

This is the book. Cruise Control

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[Natalie]

Thanks, Ruth, for your alacrity & honesty: good qualities! BTW, I just read, and liked, the beginning of Cruise Control on B & N . . . having recently done a few years of social work w/ families of special needs kids - a nice hiatus from writing - I know there aren't so many good fictional sib support books around. . . . Did it do well?

[Ruth]

Natalie wrote: "Thanks, Ruth, for your alacrity & honesty: good qualities! BTW, I just read, and liked, the beginning of Cruise Control on B & N . . . having recently done a few years of social work w/ families of..."

I think you must be thinking of a different book, Natalie. This one is about pleasure cruising on a ship.

[Natalie]

Oops . . . same title! (I was wondering why she left you out of the acknowledgments!)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Nearly up to our half millenium folks! 493 members and counting....special party for the 500th member?!!

[Ken, Moderator]

And what shall we give him (or, more likely, her). A lap at the Indy 500? Five copies of the DVD 100 Dalmatians?

Wait. Is it 1,000 Dalmatians? 1,001? Doggone it, my memory's spotty (sic as in 'em)...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

101 you poor old thing!!

[Ken, Moderator]

I 'member the author: Dodie Smith! (Who could forget a name like "Dodie"?)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Mum read that book to my brother and I when we were little....I loved it. Shame Disney got his hands on it really.....as for what they have done to Despereaux....I refuse to go and see THAT movie!

[Ken, Moderator]

I read I Capture the Castle, too. Liked it quite a bit, for a chick book.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Members list below (495)....members list to the right (492)....the old conundrum again! Which shall we go by for 500?

[Ken, Moderator]

To the wizard!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Better hurry....up to 499 at the bottom of the group home page.....

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

....Callista is either 499 or 496 (side menu)

[Nicole]

Hi! I finally decided to try a Group here and try to meet some more new, smart, readerly people.

I'm Callista and I'm a word addict. I believe in the preservation of the art of punctuation (Lynne Truss fan). I like trivia, too. I'm also something of a movie buff.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi Callista. Stop describing us like that. We beautiful, punny, wordy people who watch Jeopardy now (and then) don't like to advertise.

Oh. You lost me on the movie buff thing, but we're a pluralistic society here. Please. Just don't make your plurals or -istics with an apostrophe "s."

P.S. Debbie -- go with the LOWER number. That way we're sure.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi, Elizabeth. We welcome newbies no matter WHAT number they wear. Oh. And good luck finding experts (at least here). =)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I think I have said before.....an ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip under pressure!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

According to the bottom of the home page we are now 500!! And Somida is the last to join so......do we have to wait for what the side menu says? Do we....huh?! I wanna partay!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Well, we can "pre-partay." There's no law against it!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

The side menu now says that Kay is member 499........

[Ken, Moderator]

Oh Kay, then. Here we go! Man (and woman) your party stations...!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Kay...if you are reading this, introduce yourself and then come over to the kitchen for a party.....we all get to jump out and surprise member 500!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

I wonder if Kay drives one of those pink Cadillacs that Bruce is always going on and on about...

[Boreal Elizabeth]

ooh ooh i always seem to intuitively know when to come back for a party-yipee
and i happen to know that dear prabha is traveling

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Yep....England last I heard....

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Oooooh....we have 500!!! Welcome Bethany....party in your honour over in the kitchen....I'll just nip over and get the glasses out of the cupboard and get the nuts and dips and chips organised.......

[Ken, Moderator]

Bethany! Whoo-weee! One of my favorite Biblical towns, too (I don't know what happened there, but surely something did -- and on a Biblical scale, too!)

[Nicole]

Sorry for the confusion over which number I was. I deleted my first post and tried again.
Looks as if you like numbers as well as language. :)
...And I would *never* pluralize with an apostrophe S unless I was extremely impaired.

[Barbara]

Newengland wrote: "New? Want to introduce yourself? Old? ..."
Well, Im new here but old as society judges it ( 62, is that old? I can't tell, you get to be invisible after certain age, have you noticed? )
Anyway, not what I meant to say really . I came here from a Goodreads group called LitWit, which I'd joined after my original group which was Fans of Norah Lofts.
I'm English, but have lived in Australia forever . Now in Adelaide and retired by the sea,such bliss.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hey, Barb the 62-years-young 'un. I'm reading a fun book by Tim Winton (Oz lad) called Breath. It's set on the ocean of Australia. Surf's up! (It's a surfing, coming-of-age novel.)

Have you read it (or any Winton)?

[Barbara]

Newengland wrote: (Oz lad) called Breath. It's set on the ocean of Australia. Surf's up! (It's a surfing, coming-of-age novel.)

Have you re..."

Haven't read that one, tho I do plan to, sometime.....

[Ruth]

Welcome Alice and Barb. We're glad you found us. And stop talking like old ladies. I'm 73 and doing my best not to be old.

Alice, I see you have a BA in Fine Art. Nice to have another artist on board. I have an MFA in Fine Art.

[Ken, Moderator]

I have no letters in any arts. The Artful Dodger is about the best I can do. And, Alice and Barb, let Ruth be your belle ideal on how to age backwards. She's younger than a lot of us by a long shot. I can't act my age, either. The Good Wyfe is constantly telling me to "grow up" (as if...).

[Barbara]

[Ken, Moderator]

Age is no object. Hell, I'm 34, but I don't let that define me (chiefly as a liar), either, so there you go.

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Ruth wrote: "Welcome Alice and Barb. We're glad you found us. And stop talking like old ladies. I'm 73 and doing my best not to be old.

Alice, I see you have a BA in Fine Art. Nice to have another artist o..."

Ruth, same for me almost. I have 9 hours toward my Masters but the school was super slow admitting me into their program. Its all about money it seems anymore.

[Boreal Elizabeth]

adsolutely!
"willing to take advice" is the correct phrase
advice can be singular or plural
no need for an s
and no need for the "in"

WELCOME!! :)

[Nicole]

Welcome, Charles! Best of luck with your studies and explorations! I'll see you around! :)

[Ken, Moderator]

Welcome Gabi and Fellow Aussies.... oh, the life (to read, to paint, to garden -- sounds very Impressionistic).

[Barbara]

Hey Gabs! Cooled down here no end. There is wet stuff, falling from the sky, I am not entirely sure what it is, but is seems like A Good Thing.

I'm so glad an actual artist likes Waterhouse, I love all that pre-Raphaelite(?) stuff , Alma-Tadema etc, but since a frightfully cultured friend told me it was little better than soft porn, I have been a bit defensive.

I shall now go and change my avatar, defiantly

[Barbara]

Gabi wrote: "Ho! I bet no-one gives that lady any cheek.Who is she supposed to be? Salome? Herodias?
"

She's Zenobia (by Poynter I think) looking her last on somewhere after being taken prisoner. It might be a Lawrence Alma-Tadema actually, I must look her up.

The friend with the scoffing comment was a man, but he's American so I have lots to get him back with tee hee

[[deleted user]]

Gabi wrote: "Gabi here,
Like Barb & Alice I started on goodreads in 'Fans of Norah Lofts'. I met Callista (Hi, pet) Since we had Avatars by the same Painter (J W Waterhouse), I thought she was an artist, like..."

Same for me Gabi, I also garden when I can. I am on two gardening lists at yahoo. One is run by my friend Arianne here and she is an expert on roses.

Well, you know what they say about artists.....in my case anyway....starving!
Starving artist!