LITERARY SERVICES

The professional editing services Kay and I offer have been flourishing in the past six months. We've edited a 150-page dissertation for a PhD candidate, a manuscript for a budding author and had progress conferences with them as well. The conferences are an extra charge over and above the editing rate but it's a healthy meeting for the author and editor during which writing style and word flow can be more fully discussed. We've also edited articles for an ongoing client in addition to editing the foreword of her next publication. So our literary service is alive and well.

I also conduct a writing workshop for retirees in which I go into considerable depth on the topic of memoir writing which is the most valuable gift one can leave for the children, grandchildren and great-greats.

A most unusual project was proposed by our local television station in which the workshop group was asked to write Legacy Letters to local high school seniors in which the writers passed on lessons learned in their own growing-up years that would be valuable for the young people of today.

Editing is an exciting job because I find myself playing an important role in giving life to the author's words!