Testimonials

“I am forever grateful to Arlene for her extensive editing of my book, Brain School. Editing is not a talent of mine, having been diagnosed with Dyslexia in elementary school. Thus, I needed an editor with a keen eye for both the contextual conventions and story composition of written language. Arlene was just that person! Arlene turned my manuscript into a highly readable narrative that flowed smoothly from one chapter to the next. Thanks, Arlene, for all that you have done for my book Brain School.”

— Howard Eaton, Ed.M
Brain School
Vancouver, 2010
www.gliapress.com/

“Arlene, I am about 80 percent of the way through the manuscript, and I must say that I am very impressed with your work. You have caught errors that have remained in various versions of the manuscripts through numerous readings by numerous people. Your grasp of the rules of grammar and punctuation far exceed anything I can ever hope to achieve, and I thank you for saving me from numerous ‘gotchas’—misusages, misspellings, poor punctuation, and story inconsistencies. This novel will not be perfect, but it will be much closer to perfection than it would have been without your magic red pen.”

— B. K. Mayo
Tamara’s Child
Oregon, 2009
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“As a first-time author, I needed more assistance than most. Arlene was more than an editor; she was a sounding board, a teacher and at times a voice of reason. Arlene helped me navigate little-known topics far beyond grammar and spelling. I learned as much or more in the editing phase than I did throughout the entire writing process. I highly recommend Arlene to seasoned veteran authors seeking professional and efficient editing services, as well as to needy novices like myself. Thanks a million, Arlene!”

— Michael Walrath
Angelfish
Florida, 2010
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“Arlene has a keen eye for detail which is exactly what you want in an editor. She caught many things that others had missed, and made some great suggestions while respecting my own personal writing style. Don’t go to press without her!”

— Mary Charleson
5 Minute Marketing
Vancouver, 2010
www.charleson.ca
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“I have you – and you alone – to thank for lopping off one of the many heads of my ego-hydra: the one that had to have all the parenthetical ‘asides.’ I really can’t thank you enough for your insight, courage, and steadfastness in the face of the monster. It was indeed painful to fix them all, but not from an egoic perspective, rather from the sheer tedium. In the end, the tedium itself reinforced for me your long-held and mucho-accurate position that there were just too damned many of them! Thanks for being so good at what you do.”

— Paul L. Gubany
Return to Abundance
St. Louis, MO, 2009
www.returntoabundance.com

“Arlene, I want to thank you for the fine editing job on Super Virus. I know that some of your comments were of the ‘devil’s advocate’ nature, and I appreciated your views from that perspective. Most of your changes were excellent ones; in just a few cases, I wanted to keep the original wording. Mostly, however, you flagged really important stuff, and I went back and rewrote the passages, trying to make them clearer. Thanks again for the strong editing job. My book is definitely much better for it.”

— Lawrence Lapin
Super Virus: Immortal Sins
California, 2009