Editorial Services
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- 25 Years of Experience
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Hastings Business Service offers you quality editorial services at reasonable rates to help you improve your presentation. I aim to improve on your material where it needs improvement and leave it alone where it's already good enough. In the finished product, I aim to preserve your individual style and voice.
Editors and publishers are busy people and can't read every submission they get. The more thoroughly you and I catch and fix any technical problems before submission - grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage, syntax, style, formatting - the better shot you'll have at getting the publisher to read your piece.
All of us, including me, benefit from getting a second opinion of our work. Especially in first drafts, we all make subtle and not-so-subtle errors. Even in this age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), some of the best spell-check and grammar-check tools often fail to catch these errors. When they do catch them, the suggestions they offer are sometimes misfits. A writer who doesn't know the rules of grammar and usage in the first place can then end up with a presentation that looks and sounds worse than what he or she started with.
Email transmittals have largely replaced hard-copy delivery. Check with each publisher for specific requirements.
We provide editorial solutions to customers nationwide. Give us a call today for a free initial consultation:
(256) 213-9966 - OR - (231) 929-3773
Complete Editorial Services
- Resumes
- Article and book manuscripts
- Theses and dissertations
- Training materials
- Website texts
- Marketing materials
- White papers
- LinkedIn profiles*
* NOTE: I no longer make inputs to LinkedIn pages or any other outside websites where you have login credentials. However, I'm happy to edit and update the page texts themselves. You will then need to use my text files to copy and paste the revised or updated information to your pages.
Eliminate Errors from Your Material
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Usage
- Syntax
- Style
- Formatting
Background and Credentials
I became a published freelance writer in 1990, when my first op-ed pieces ran in several major American newspapers. Opinion pieces need to be timely. A major news event such a hurricane or the outbreak of war can push other subjects off the page overnight. This was often the case during the 1990 Desert Shield buildup phase to the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
In early February 1992, Jeff Jacoby, who was then Chief Editorial Writer of the Boston Herald, called to request a column from me for the paper's Counterpoint page, a weekend pro-and-con debate feature. The piece ran on February 16, 1992.
With the startup of my own business in 1996, I joined the ranks of freelance editors. Since then, I've had little time for my own writing, because I'm concentrating mostly on yours.
About 95 percent of the writing on this site is my own work, except for some subheads and callout boxes. I write occasional blog posts, when time allows, such as the piece linked below for violinist.com. It will give you another view, beyond what you see here on tchastings.com, of what my own writing is like:
Celebrate Classical Music: A Blessing in Childhood and Beyond
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