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the only place where you can get all the help you need to produce top-rate Western
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Why should you chose us
to help you with your Western fiction novel?
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We live on a ranch and train
and ride our own horses. |
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We have traveled and camped throughout
the West and the Rockies. |
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We have performed research and
have cultivated a knowledge of the history, and a feel for the lifestyles, of
the Old West. |
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1-800 number for use in constant
consultation between writer and editor. |
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Proofreading - Finding
obvious mistakes, proper punctuation |
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Copy Editing - Style,
tempo, sentence structure, word usage, includes proofreading |
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Story Editing - Help with
dialogue, character development, plot, local vernacular, colloquialisms. We use
Microsoft Word, a wonderful program which makes it possible for the writer to
either accept or reject any suggested edits. If you are not versatile with this
software, we will be happy to give you a quick tutorial on the many tools that
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Our other services include
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Fact Checking and Research- If your story is based on actual historical facts,
you probably want to make sure they are in fact...FACTS. Our fact checking will
provide verifiable sources that back up the important facts in your manuscript.
We also offer research services for authors looking for specific historical facts,
lifestyle and occupational facts and information, animal husbandry, travel and
transportation. Our research services can provide you with the simple information
that adds interest and flavor to your characters, to the more complex facts that
help support your plot and build your story line |
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Map Creation - Real and
fictional maps. Stories involving geographic descriptions, multiple scenes of
action and adventure, or complicated patterns of character movement, will benefit
from a map. A map helps readers identify important events with the specific geographic
locations where they took place. We can create maps from actual historical maps
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Illustrations -
Illustrations are a great way to spice up your page layout. Custom designed pen
and ink drawings added to each chapter page or full page illustrations placed
throughout the book are an added touch readers enjoy. We can also work with you
on illustrating a specific event in your book for your front cover.
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Manuscript Formatting and
Styles - Many
writers have problems formatting their manuscripts, often times leaving font and
formatting mistakes that reflect upon their work. A properly formatted manuscript
gives your work the professional touch that publishers and agents expect from
writers. We can help clean up the mistakes by applying styles and formatting to
your document, eliminating improper paragraph indents and spacing, extra sentence
spacing, mixed fonts and formatting in body text, mismatched chapter titles and
many other common formatting mistakes. We can also add headers and footers to
your pages that can include author name, book title, chapter titles and page numbers.
We can also build table of content and index pages for your book. |
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Book Page Layout and Design
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you are self publishing your book, we can turn your manuscript into a document
that is ready to send to your printer or publisher. Our book layout and design
services include:
Typesetting - choosing fonts and type sizes for your book.
Page Layout - placement of text on individual pages and flow through the
complete document.
Page Design - setting margins and arranging body text, header, footer,
photos or images, captions, and page numbers on individual pages into a pleasant
composition. Chapter title pages and section pages can be designed with simple
text and/or graphic enhancements, or add a distinctive touch with illustrations.
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Book Cover and Dust Jacket
Design - Creative,
imaginative cover design for western and historical fiction. Let us create a cover
that will reflect the story and style of your writing. Authors are welcome to
provide their own cover images or we can show you designs using our large library
scenic photographs of western images. We also offer custom illustrations for more
specific graphic requirements. |
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Web Site Design
- Promote
and sell your books on line. Inexpensive way to reach a worldwide market for your
books and publications. |
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