Freelance job, book copy editor for Austin book company, payment: $3 per page

A minimum of two years of book copyediting experience is required for applicants who wish to contract for freelance copyediting assignments for an Austin book production and composition company. Please supply a resume if you are interested, but note that a successful completion of our demanding copyediting test is also required.

Responsibilities include:

• Responding promptly to an offer of a project for copyediting
• Completing the copyediting work according to the agreed upon schedule (typically 2-5 weeks) and carefully following the instructions of our project editor
• Including politely worded queries to the author to resolve content questions
• Performing the “clean-up edit” following author review of the edited manuscript

Experience and skills required:

• At least two years of scholarly copyediting experience
• Experience with MS Word and with electronic editing
• Proven ability to meet deadlines
• Knowledge of the main style guides, such as Chicago and APA
  

Location: Near MoPac & Bee Caves

Compensation: We pay copyeditors per regularized manuscript page (double-spaced, 12-point font, 1” margins). Rates average $3.00/MS page.

Telecommuting is ok.

Via: craigslist.org

Contact Information:

For inquiries: job-zsjvk-2329901842@craigslist.org

For submissions: job-zsjvk-2329901842@craigslist.org