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| Best Children's Books Author Services | |||
| Writing for children? Perhaps we can be of some assistance. | |||
Steve is the creator of Best Children's Books - Find, Read or Write. Before turning to the web to indulge his love of children's books, he was a successful screenwriter. "See Dick. See Jane. See Dick read Jane a bad book. No, Dick, no!" |
P.J. Rooks is a freelance writer and researcher with backgrounds in English, journalism and biology. She has written over 50 reviews of children's books. Her articles have also appeared in The Kansas City Star, Skeptic magazine and The Best Times magazine. | ||
| Children's Books Author Services | |||
| Editing and Proofreading You can doubtless find cheaper, but you might not find better. | Standard Critique Looking for tough (but constructive) feedback on your manuscript? That's our area of expertise. | ||
| Best Children's Books Author Services does not recommend contracting for editing and critique services at the same time (except as described in our hypercritique below). Why? A critique resulting in a substantial rewrite means wasted editing. | |||
| Skills Evaluation It can be hard for a new writer to know how advanced he/she is. Submit a writing sample and we'll give you an idea where you are, as well as some thoughts on what you can do to move forward. | Layout Self publishing your book? P.J. is a wiz with QuarkXpress. $1/page plus $2/image, with a $60 minimum. | ||
| Query/Cover letter help Ready to query, or send out your manuscript? We're here if you'd like to run it by us first. | Review Have you already published or self published? Looking for a reputable review? You'll want to learn about Best Children's Books' paid review service, An Honest Read. | ||
Our not-quite-patented Hypercritique Are you finally ready to send out that manuscript? It's no cliche that the first pages are the most important. Our hypercritique combines a fine-toothed proofreading of your first 1000 words, combined with story feedback from both Steve and P.J. We promise not to be gentle, because readers won't be! | |||
| Web Help Want to find your own audience writing on the web? Or wondering why an existing website isn't bringing the traffic you'd hoped? Steve can help. As of Sept. 09, Best Children's Books receives over 1100 visitors per day. | |||
Every piece of writing is unique and therefore needs a different kind of tending to; that's why you won't find firm quotes here for of Best Children's Books' author services. Use the form at the bottom of this page to request a quote or simply to let us know of your interest in our services. We'll get back to you promptly!
If your work is near perfect, you'll pay less. If it's a mess, we'll tell you it's a mess before we spend all your money! If you want help with rewriting, we can do that, too, for the right price.We will need to see your work in its entirety in order to provide you a quote.
A critique is constructive feedback on your work, intended to help you move forward. Points covered will include:
- Feedback on elements of fiction: plot, setting, character development, etc.
- Feedback on coherence and cohesiveness.
- Feedback on organization.
Translation: Best Children's Books Author Services will pinpoint weaknesses in your storytelling.
Critiques do not include editing or proofreading, though they will include comment on the overall quality of grammar, spelling, clarity, sentence structure, etc.
It's hard to write in a vaccuum! Friends and family are hardly critics. If you want to know where you stand with your writing, Best Children's Books Author Services can give you the lowdown, complete with advice on what you should work on and where to get help. (Books, websites, etc.) Our Writing Skills Evaluation is for those who see themselves as new or beginning writers...a friendly mini-critique intended to let you know where your skills stand. You'll be given feedback on
- Writing skills (grammar, spelling, clarity, sentence structure)
- Storytelling skills (organization, elements of fiction)
Your work needn't be aimed at children. For the writing skills evaluation, we recommend you submit shorter length works.
Well, you've written it, edited it, proofread it, had it critiqued, torn it apart, written it again and finally, it's done! Your self-published manuscript is finished at last and whew, what a relief! Well not quite, you've still got to get it printed and bound but what's the big deal?
Then you realize, you've entered a totally new world of rules and specifications that you really hadn't planned to tackle and frankly, don't have the patience for.
Not to worry -- Best Children's Books Author Services can help! We're practiced on the bulky machinery of layout programs such as QuarkXpress, ready to wrangle with your pictures and pop out a .pdf at the drop of a dime.
What's more, to get this service off the ground, we're willing to offer it to you at a ridiculously low price. While the industry generally charges between $45 and $85 per hour for desktop publishing services, we're offering (for a limited time only!) to put together your book for $1 per page plus $2 for each image (though minimum charges do apply).
Visit our children's book layout and design page for more info.
A query letter asks a publisher or publication to agree to consider a manuscript; a cover letter accompanies a manuscript. One determines whether your manuscript will be read, the other sets the tone for a reading. What could be more important?
Best Children's Books Author Services can critique queries and covers or help you write them. Contact us!
Is your book about to be published (or self published), or has it been already? We've reviewed hundreds of books on this site, and our reviews rank highly with the search engines. Our review service is called An Honest Read. Visit our paid children's book reviews page.
You've heard it said and you know it's true: nothing is more crucial to possible publication than the opening pages of your book. The Best Children's Books Author Services hypercritique combines a bloody red pencil proofreading of (up to) the first 1000 words of your children's book along with tough content critiques from both Steve and P.J.
Our flat rate price is $119.00.
The Web works in mysterious ways! A website can be a tool to drive traffic to your book, it can be a sign on the information superhighway pointing to your services, or it can be a small business in and of itself. If you're depending on the search engines to send you free visitors, though, and you don't know what it takes to get them to rank you highly, you're flying blind.
Tell me what you want from a site and I can give you an idea what it'll take to get there.
- The bad news: it'll be hard work.
- The good news: the hard work involves writing...and you're a writer!
Use the form below to let us know what Best Children's Books Author Services can do for you.
Please note: Our preferred file format is Microsoft Word (.doc)
Word allows us to use the terrific Track Changes function, the best way to eyeball your original work overlaid with our edits and comments.
The publishing page.
