The COLOUR of WORDS
Hire Your Own Writing, Editing and Marketing Coach
Bernice Lever will listen to your needs and wishes, then offer advice with constructive comments on what you can improve to make your words reach a wider audience. Your unique voice and style is what you have to offer the world. You are an individual with your own story and views to share with others: words no one else can express in just your way.
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My rates are reasonable and negotiable for whatever type of writing project you are undertaking. Now Writer-in-Residence for the Vancouver and Ottawa branches of the Canadian Authors Association. www.canauthorsvancouver.org
Basic non-member fee for reading, editing and suggesting markets for a 20 page, double spaced typed example is $50.00. Then my rate is often $2.00 per page after a contract is agreed upon. Please include one page of who you are and what your writer's goals are with a SASE. Mail your manuscript sample in a 12 point, clear font to RR1, B69, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0 CANADA
Over the decades, I have aided many writers with their words: in poems, letters, short stories, articles, novels and more to get into print, posted or broadcast.
THE COLOUR OF WORDS - 15 chapter text book on English language structure and writing is available as CD in colour = $20.00 , as Electronic file in colour = $20.00, taxes included.
Whether you want to develop some simmering ideas or ideals into an outline, then to choose a genre or format; to create an effective query letter or fascinating synopsis; to revise and hone a fiction or non-fiction manuscript; to decide if your poems are for a literary or mass market publication; to find an agent or suitable publisher when you have a finished product; to reach a reading or listening public for your writing; or to grow as an accomplished writer in your job or personal life.
For individuals or groups, I am available as a workshop leader for business, commercial or literary topics; private tutor; ghostwriter; manuscript evaluator; editor; reading tours and marketing advice.
Bernice Lever, RR 1, B69, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G0
Testimonials:
Thelma Orchard, author of "My Sad Is All Gone, A Family's Triumph Over Violent Autism", Lucky Press, 2004:
"I am deeply grateful to Bernice Lever for her fine editing and insight. She helped me prepare my successful MS by encouraging me to retain many lively scenes rather than over-cut, allowing the flow of the story to evolve. She suggested I move one particular scene to the beginning of the book to form a gripping opening chapter. She noted within a quotation by the main protagonist, Dr Huggins, a unifying thematic phrase: Life On Hold, which is clarified in MY SAD IS ALL GONE. Bernice also has good instinct in recognising and correcting fuzzy time-sequences here and there in the text and encouraged me to re-shape Part One as a 'flash-back', a technique which has worked well for the book and gave it movement."
Alex Z. Modzelewski, author of "Sinners in Paradise", Humpback Publishing, 2008 Hawaii, said in his novel's Acknowledgements, " Sinners in Paradise would never have happened without my editors: Bernice Lever - an angel of forgiveness who ploughed through the early versions of the book, and Joyce Libby who provided finishing touches."