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QuillDipper Services

Your family raves about your work; they make you feel great. Your boss boasts that you are on the verge of leaving your job for a career as a writer - you are that good. The people in your writer's club are kind and supportive...but that won't help you sell your books! A few words are not hard to come by, but honest reviews, helpful critiques and well written marketing blurbs sometimes are. You have worked long, hard hours on your writing. Why would you send your manuscript out to publishers without getting an editor to look it over? Why would you send it out to agents without glowing reviews to accompany it? How do you promote your book after it is published? Unless you can hire a publicist, you most likely will be doing your promotions yourself. You need reviews to put out there in the public eye. Your mom's friends will only buy so many copies. Getting reviews is the first step to publicity. Hiring an editor is the first step to getting published, after you've done the writing of course!

Our services are as varied as our clientele. From simple reviews to manuscript edits, we can work with you to personalize your working relationship with us. Do you need a review of your book for marketing and promotion? No problem. Do you want to send out your manuscript to agents and publishers with a review already attached? We can help you. Do you need someone to look over your work before you send that baby out into the publishing world? Do you wish you could get some honest critiquing of your novel or children's book? We can do that for you.

For sample reviews please see http://bookreviewjournal.blogspot.com/ or you can find direct links on my Clients page and while you are there, read some of the comments from a growing list of happy customers. Our Content Edit Service includes carefully screening your work for typos, misspellings, grammar, punctuation, character development, plot and story flow, pace, and when needed, cutting down the word count, or helping to find areas that need more. Our fees are as follows:

Straight (and honest) book reviews are yours to use however you please, provided the reviewer's name remain as a byline, for a reading fee of $50. Manuscript Content Edits are .01 per manuscript word. Critiques and proofreading are also offered.

If you have an ISBN, and you are in a hurry for a review, please go to www.Bookideas.com and look into their Rapid Review Service. As the Rapid Review Editor there, I will find a reviewer for you, or review it myself, and get it posted to the site within 15 business days from the date that the reader gets your book.

I have a policy of providing honest reviews. Sometimes that means it won't be a rave. Positive or negative, I require payment for my services and you will be asked to sign a service agreement before I hand over the review.