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PAID TO PROOFREAD:
Secrets to Financial Freedom and Success
Outline
Introduction: Have a Life. Not a Job
PART I: How to Get the Jobs
Chapter 1: What Does Proofreading Really Entail?
- You Can Do This: Discovering the Skills You Already Have
- A Crash Course in Publishing: Who’s Who and What’s What
- Setting Up for Success
Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Sell Yourself
- Creating a Winning Résumé: A Step-By-Step Guide to Identifying the Experience You Didn’t Know You Had
- Instant Experience: Adding to the Page
- Laying the Groundwork: Creating the Cover Letter
Chapter 3: Finding the Jobs
- The Pathways to the Publishers
- Other Inroads
Chapter 4: Getting the Jobs
- Warming Up Your Cold Call
- Put It in Writing: Managing Your Written Correspondence
Chapter 5: Keeping the Jobs Coming
- Your First Project
- Distinguishing Yourself
- Networking
PART II: How to Do the Job
Chapter 6: The Proofreading Symbols Explained
- What the Core 35 Symbols Look Like
- How to Draw Them Perfectly
- Practice Sessions
Chapter 7: Proofreading Tests
Chapter 8: Beyond the Symbols: Detail Elements that Make a Proofreader Great
Glossary
Appendices
FLEXIBILITYWhen my son was 3 months old, we hopped on a plane to Miami for a quick vacation. I packed a proofread with me: Jonathan Kellerman’s latest thriller. There is nothing better than sitting under an umbrella on the beach, my son frolicking with my sister, as I read a fabulous suspense story—one that paid for the entire trip. That is the spirit of being a freelancer.- Lauren Demming |
A FREE EDUCATIONI’m a Jeopardy! freak. After I started proofreading, I noticed that since I’ve been reading a little bit about a lot of things, I get so many more questions right . . . and faster than the contestants on the show. I plan on getting a slot on Jeopardy! next year. Brad Rutter won over a million dollars in 2002. I’m going to beat that. I’m completely serious.- Chris Hemple |
SHOW ME THE MONEYIt’s a great little secret, my proofreading. I am a writer, which heaven knows is anything but steady. But between writing gigs, I get to read other writers’ work . . . and make money doing it! It’s like getting paid to do research for my own writing career . . . plus, it covers my rent every month and then some.- Leigh Anderson |
SO, WHAT IS IT?I wish there had been a proofreading program in school so that I would have known about this sooner. I don’t have to answer to anybody, I can read all day in my pajamas and fuzzy slippers, and I have such a comfortable work environment—my home. Who knew?- Wanda Roderiguez |
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