mary@marybrotherton.com
I help make your thoughts clear to everyone.
Email me today to discuss your next project.
I specialize in taking your thoughts and making them clear to others. This can be in the form of a proofreader or editor to catch mistakes or as a writer, working to help transform you into the genius you already are.
Editing Services
My mother told me I edited cereal boxes with crayons.
Check for context
Check for focus and structure
Copyedit your text for clarity, organization and development of ideas
Correct all spelling, punctuation, grammar errors and typos adhering to your chosen Style
This includes checking sentence structure for run-on sentences or illogical sentence fragments, punctuation and quotation marks, subject/verb agreements, common usage, capitalization, verb tenses, structure, theme, organization, passive language and if the text is appropriate for the intended audience.
Ensure the text fulfills its intended purpose (sells, tells a story, answers a question, or conveys a message)
Examine style and organization
Fact-check, including thesis citations
Follow characters for inconsistencies
Identify the plot or alert author if no plot is clear
Inspect for format changes
Line-by-line edits for typos, misspelled words, mechanical errors, duplicate words
Proofreading
Review of marketing and advertising materials
Reality Checks
Sanity Checks
Word choice and redundancy/repetition checks
Offer additional or substitute words, phrases, clauses or sentences if necessary
Email me to discuss how I can help make your writing project the best it can be.
mary@marybrotherton.com
Who uses my editing service?
I’m honored when writers entrust their work to me for scrutiny and clarity.
- Novelists, documentary writers, poets, memoirists and authors of how-to and other non-fiction books
- Public relations firms
- Playwrights, scriptwriters, scenarists
- Graduate and doctoral students working on their theses and dissertations
- Business people who want an unbiased and confidential pair of eyes on their blogs and certain communications
- Bloggers
- Journalists and reporters
- Anyone who needs to make an informal speech
- Anyone who wants to be sure what they have written conveys the messages they want
Writing Services
About Pages
Advetorials and advertisement copy
Book Proposals
Business Plans
Case Studies
Company Profiles
Emails that matter
Guest or Ghost Posts on your blog
Marketing materials
Newsletters
Press Releases
Product Descriptions
Profiles for Social Media, including Dating sites
Query Letters
Speeches
Success Stories
Thank you notes and letters
Wedding Toasts
Email me to learn how I will pursue your writing objectives as if they were mine.
mary@marybrotherton.com
Who uses my writing services?
- Business owners who need help establishing themselves as the experts in their field, because they know how to do what they do, but may not know how to write about it.
- Public Relations firms that need extra help behind the scenes on special projects
- Bloggers who want to use a ghost writer or guest writer
- Nervous brides and grooms or their guests who want to make speeches
- Business people who need to make speeches for special events
- Website owners struggling to find the perfect words to portray unique personalities of their business
- Authors struggling to condense their books into summaries, query letters or synopses
Research Services
Online and in-library research with or without references
Search for photographs for use online
Research your online presence
Research your competition’s online presence
Other customized research
Who uses my research services?
- Teachers
- Students
- Novelists
- Non-fiction writers
- Publishers
- Entrepreneurs
Learn how I can ease your research needs.
mary@marybrotherton.com
