Proof reading and editing?

Thank you all so much for your kind words and encouragement about my novel. If you do happen to read it, could I ask you please, to write a review for me? I need lots of reviews, preferably good ones!

Ed and I went into Norwich today for hair cuts (when I read that it makes it sound as we both have hair down to our shoulders. We don’t. Honestly. Well, not now, anyway) and I felt so sorry for the girl selling The Big Issue in the pouring rain, that I bought a copy. I quite often buy a copy when I go to Norwich, but seldom read it. Today, with nothing to do in the hairdresser’s, I started to read it.

There was an advert for a proofreading and editing course. Considering how much it has cost me to have my novel edited ( 15p per word – and a lot of words, work it out) – and only about three words were changed since it was virtually oven-ready – this sounds like a good idea.

If I can professionally proofread and edit and charge less than 15p per word, I should soon make my fortune. Or something. At least it would make considerably more than writing a novel is likely to make. Anyway, even if I don’t proofread other people’s books, I shall definitely proofread and edit my next novel myself, now I know what is expected. It’s a sequel to “Heaven Spent” and nearly finished.

Meanwhile, I’ve sent off for details of the course (which I can do online) just to see what transpires.

Ain’t this fun?