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Freelance Editorial Services was founded in 1984. Since its founding, FES has witnessed a change in what editorial services are wanted and how they are provided — progressing from working on paper to working electronically, requiring skilled, technologically savvy editors; from working primarily in-house to outsourcing, from outsourcing locally to nationally to worldwide; and, as knowledge about our world has grown with daily innovations and discoveries, the growth of books from single-volume to multivolume treatises that require an ever-increasing amount of editorial collaboration. FES has met and embraced these challenges, and continues to do so.
Our website gives you entry to copyediting and proofreading services performed by highly skilled professionals whose sole focus
is quality work done on time. FES is a group of full-time and
part-time copyeditors and proofreaders. Bios of some of our copyeditors and proofreaders can be found at
Our Staff.
As the world of copyediting and proofreading has changed, we, too, have changed. Among our many innovations, FES offers clients the ability to monitor a project’s progress, self-schedule
projects, communicate directly with the editors, and review the wordsnSync Real-Time Stylesheet at any time. Three of our newest innovations are real-time collaboration, file tracking, and wordsnSync Real-Time Stylesheet — all designed with you in mind.
Real-Time Collaboration
Because we work as a team, help is always available. But there are times when a verbal or written description of a problem inadequately conveys the problem. An FES editor who wants input from fellow editors can conference with 1 or more fellow editors and all can view — and even live edit — simultaneously the problem material on the initiating editor’s computer. It doesn’t matter where the editors are located — editors in New York, Washington State, and London can work together in real-time to solve the problem. This system is also used by FES staff to conduct training and skill-improvement seminars. Want to know more about how this works? Call FES at 845-471-3566, e-mail us at info@freelance-editorial-services.com, or contact us by instant messaging or live chat.
File Tracking
One problem of multiauthor and multicopyeditor projects is that chapters often are ready for editing out of sequence, which can make setting pages problematic. Our file tracking system helps solve the problem in several ways. First, it recognizes that copyeditors work at different speeds and that chapters require differing amounts of work. Second, if 3 weeks into a project we receive chapter 2 for editing, having already edited chapters 1 and 3, file tracking makes chapter 2 the next available chapter for editing by the next available editor — it doesn’t go to the end of the list. There is a lot more to file tracking, and a demo of it is available. To arrange a demo either call FES at 845-471-3566, e-mail us at info@freelance-editorial-services.com, or contact us by instant messaging or live chat.
wordsnSync's Max -- the Real-Time Stylesheet (patent pending)
A second problem of multiauthor and multicopyeditor projects is that chapters often are inconsistent and it is difficult for editors to ensure consistency among themselves. Even in the best
of situations, it is difficult for copyeditors working at different times and in different places to coordinate — that is, until now.
Freelance Editorial Services proudly uses the patent-pending wordsnSync Max -- the Real-Time Stylesheet system, which is designed to promote
uniform usage. When one editor adds an entry to the wordsnSync Real-Time
Stylesheet, every other editor
who is also working on the project knows of the entry within 60 seconds. No more instances of one editor using, for example, distension and another distention and both
appearing in wordsnSync's Max and the book. In addition, the most current version of wordsnSync's Max is instantly available
to you, our client
— 24/7. There is a lot more to wordsnSync's Max -- the Real-Time Stylesheet, and a demo of it is available. To arrange a demo either call FES at 845-471-3566, e-mail us at info@freelance-editorial-services.com, or contact us by instant messaging or live chat.
Thank you for visiting us. Please come again.
Rich Adin and the staff
of Freelance Editorial Services
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