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Joan Huyser-Honig is one of the most skillful editors with whom I've worked. She senses when to push authors and when to back off. She asks the right questions at the outset, establishes rapport with the authors during, and meets deadlines in the end.
—Sandra Vander Zicht, executive editor, Zondervan
Nonprofits often produce
documents by committee—and it shows. They depend on us to clarify, unify,
and reformat their copy, so readers will understand and support the
nonprofit’s mission.
As the following case
studies show, we provide several levels of editing services. Clients
say our proofreading helps them avoid embarrassing errors. Our copyediting reveals and corrects
tangled logic. We also provide substantive content editing and ghost
writing.
Two gifted speakers decided to write a book
together. Their publisher said the manuscript needed a thought-for-thought
rewrite, including reducing the first 100 pages by 75 percent. We rewrote
it, the authors and publisher approved it, and the book is still ranked in
Amazon.com’s top 1 percent. A development director
asked us to sign a six-month retainer contract. The client was then free
to call on us for everything from style guide questions to suggestions for
improving personal letters to major donors. A nonprofit executive
felt too busy to refine a lengthy rough draft into a requested magazine
editorial. We interviewed this person to fill in gaps, reorganized the
material, and met the magazine’s word count and deadline. A nonprofit committee
wrote a training manual intended for workshop leaders in other countries.
One section was too long and complex for the intended audience, and its
style didn’t match the rest of the manual. The client pronounced our
rewrite “wonderful!”
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