Karen M. Smith

About Karen M. Smith

I bring 35+ years of professional writing, editing, proofreading, and page design experience encompassing fiction and nonfiction and spanning diverse topics, genres, and project types. My work ranges from website copy and social media campaigns to blogs, newsletters, and magazines to full-length book manuscripts.⏩.\'. Blogs, newsletter articles, short stories, novellas, screenplay-to-novel adaptations, and books. For nonfiction projects, I conduct fast, laser-focused research to write with intelligence and authority on myriad topics. For fiction projects, I ghostwrite your story to your specifications. I am familiar with the and the :$0.25 per word for nonfiction;$0.15 for fiction. Includes up to three rounds of revision.⏩ & .\'. My sentence-focused editing style covers: 1) correcting errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax, and sentence structure; 2) strengthening weak writing and clarifying awkward sentences; 3) identifying discrepancies, inconsistencies, redundancies, and other flaws for remediation; and 4) suggesting improvements where appropriate to enhance readers’ engagement and comprehension:$0.04 per word for editing;$0.02 per word for proofreading.⏩.\'. Page design involves more than merely filling a page with words; it affects the reader’s experience with your content. I use Adobe InDesign to create clean, attractive page layouts for newsletters, books, and more:$25 per page for newsletters;$2 per page for books. Extra charge for images. Includes up to three rounds of revision.⏩ :

Experience

1. Manuscript Critique

   Hen House Publishing Your Content Expert

   Jan 2016 — Present · Springfield, OH, US

   Every savvy author knows their manuscript needs professional editing, but does it need both full developmental editing or will a mere beta read suffice? If you\'re looking for that happy medium between beta reading and a full developmental edit, then opt for a.A manuscript critique is less extensive than a full developmental edit and more intensive than a beta read. With this service, I\'ll read your manuscript and deliver an editorial letter in two parts. The first part will contain my overall impressions, note any consistently recurring errors, identify issues to be addressed, and point out what works and what doesn\'t for the reader. The second part contains a list of specific issues, referenced by page number for easy location, to be addressed.The best part. I will not feed your manuscript to AI to scrape and use for other purposes.Recent manuscript critique projects include:• ℎ by Louly Peacock• ℎ: 1: 2, and : 3 by Sydney Rutherford• ℎ by Liam Fialkov• 1: ℎ by Tejas Mathai• by Kyle GalindezManuscript critique services are priced at $0.01 per word. Let me help you figure out what\'s working and what\'s not working in your manuscript. Contact me at h••••••••@gmail.com.

Education

• Wittenberg University

  Bachelor’s Degree, English (major), History & Philosophy (minors)

  1984 — 1988

• SAVE International

  Module I Value Engineering Basic Training, Value Engineering

  2010 — 2010

• University of Dayton

  Communication

  2002 — 2003