Editing Services
These services are charged by word count, one cent ($.01) per three (3) words. A 50,000 word manuscript evaluation or copy edit would total $150.00. There is a $30 minimum charge. Additional charges may apply if the manuscript requires extensive evaluation
or editing.
Interior Book Design and Typesetting
Design services start at $30. Print typesetting services start at 1/2 cent per word (minimum charge $100). E-book formatting (html, pdf conversions, etc.) 1/2 cent per word (minimum charge $100).
Copywriting
Taglines and teasers are $10 each. Longer projects are charged at $0.05 per word, with a minimum
charge of $10.00 per project. A 300-word press release or blurb would cost $15.
Book Covers
E-books (front only) start at $25. Print books (front, back, spine) start at $75.
Websites
Header design only, $15. Image mapping, $25. One page site, $40. Multiple page sites, $10 for each additional page.
Video Trailers
Prices start at $25 (not including cost of images).
Banners
Static banners start at $12. Animated banners,$12 plus $1.50 for each additional frame.
Promotional Design
Business card, bookmark,post card, brochure & flyer design, all start at $10.
Consultation
Orders include two e-mail consultations -- one pre-design when you provide information about your story or other product and any suggestions for your design, and an in-process consultation to evaluate the preliminary design.
Payment
For services of $100 or more, twenty-five percent of the payment is due after the first
consultation, with the remainder due upon delivery of product/service. Payments are to be made via PayPal. Other methods of payment may be implemented in the future.
(Prices are subject
to change without prior notice, but will not affect orders in progress.)
Questions? Send
them to us at
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"Us" is me -- Connie Ward.
I am a writer, editor, graphic designer, video producer and website builder.
My Experience
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Graphic Design --
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first desiging and creating
flyers, brochures and posters for church and school. For various employers,
I have created flyers for such special events such as child-safety-seat
inspection day and a senior fitness event. In the days before desktop publishing,
I edited and produced a monthly newsletter for a senior support agency
where I worked.
In conjunction with graphic
design, my desktop publishing experience goes back to the 1980s, when I
used an early version of Page Stream on my Amiga 1000. I learned DTP producing
flyers and brochures for political campaigns and various causes (frequently
at no charge) and planning and preliminary design of the tabloid newsweekly,
The Florida Sun, prior to its launch.
Writing & Editing-- I was a staff writer for a local tabloid news weekly, The Florida Sun.
I also wrote, edited published my first novel, Southern Man. My second,
Storm Surge, was released April 2011 by Desert Breeze Publishing. As a staff writer for The Florida Sun I produced two original articles per issue, and selected and edited news service stories and articles.
In addition, I have five years experience in online and local critque groups.
Business writing experience
dates to the late 1970s, to my first product, a manual for intake secretaries
of a multi-county social service agency in the Midwest, and includes composition
of business and political correspondance and grant applications.
Video production and
post production -- My experience dates to the 1980s, when my sister
and I partnered in a wedding video company and produced computer graphics
and animations for broadcast video production companies in west Florida
and south Alabama. Clients for the latter included various advertising
agencies, the Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola NAS, Ingall's Shipbuilding
in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama's "Clean and Green" campaign.
In the 1990s, I shot and
edited numerous political videos, mostly campaign commercials, for my employer,
a United States Congressman, including several half-hour television programs
for broadcast on a local-access TV station.
Web design -- I taught myself .html coding starting in 1999 and used the knowledge to
publish a monthly e-zine on Southern culture and politics that ran online
from 2000 to 2004.
I created and currently maintain
three of my own websites,
ConnieChastain.com,
BrasstownBooks.com, this
one, Word Slinger Boutique, and another author site,
TommieLyn.com.
Software used
For typesetting --
Print books: QuarkXpress, Serif's Page Plus, Open Office. Usually output
as a pdf files. Electronic books: Open Office, Netscape Composer, Note
Tab Lite.
For website creation -- initially
laid out in Netscape Composer. The resulting html code is tweaked and edited/fine
tuned in my workhorse text editor, Note Tab Lite.
For graphic design -- Adobe
PhotoDeluxe, Ultimate Paint, Serif Draw, Microsoft GIF Animator
For video editing -- Microsoft
MovieMaker, Serif's Movie Plus, Audacity sound editor.
Limitations of Use
Word
Slinger Boutique markets our products and services to independent publishers
and authors primarily of genre fiction, particularly romance fiction, although
we welcome any and all who wish o use our services. As promoters of romance
fiction, we understand and approve of explorations of the
sexual nature of romance relationships. However, we will not knowingly
promote pornography, erotica, same-sex or multiple partner romance, or
portrayals of pre-marital or extra-marital sex as acceptable and positive,
or stories that encourage rape, incest, or bestiality, or portray reward,
profit or benefit from illegal, immoral behavior.
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