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Q: What services do you offer?

We write columns, articles, books, audiobook scripts, white papers, and more. We are established professional writers in many subjects, including technology, history, food, wine, travel, and gardening.
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As editors, we work with you at the appropriate level, whether that’s conceptual brainstorming or concept critiquing, high-level structural editing or line editing, fact-checking, copyediting, or fine-detail proofreading. We tailor the editing and the process to your individual needs.
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We will help you in all stages of audiobook creation, including scripting, voice work, and voice critique.
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Q: What are your qualifications?

A: We’ve headed up editorial departments for major magazines. We’ve written and edited thousands of articles, books, and audiobooks. We have deep knowledge in technology, business, food, wine, travel, and gardening.
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Q: What do you charge?

A: We charge competitively and work by the hour or word or job. For editing, audio critiques, and research, this is typically between $35 and $65 per hour. Rates for ghostwriting, articles, audiobook scripts, and voice work are typically negotiated.

Q: What is the editing process?

A: What do you need it to be? We customize the process to your needs. Email us to discuss what we can do for you.

Editing

If you’re writing a book, an article, a blog, a whitepaper, or a speech…

we can:
• help you write it
• copyedit your text
• proofread your text
• collaborate with you

Developmental Editing

Explanation of what developmental editing is, the process.

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Copyediting

Explanation of what copyediting is.

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Proofreading

Explanation of what proofreading is, when it is done.

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Collaboration

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read what people are saying...

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“Michael is one of the best technical journalists: knowledgeable, perceptive, articulate, personable, and possessed of a charming sardonic sense of humor.”

Dennis Allison, professor, Stanford University; co-founder, Peoples Computer Company

“If you’re going to read one history book this decade, read [Fire in the Valley]. You need to know the hilarious saga of the wizards and the wing nuts and the little miracles by which they created everybody’s future.”
John Perry Barlow, cofounder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; lyricist, Grateful Dead

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“MIke’s funny and insightful, and he writes about complex subjects with great clarity. He’s one of the few technology writers who is universally respected by programmers.”

Rich Seidner, president, Silicon Valley Virtual, Inc.

“Fire in the Valley is the seminal story of Silicon Valley. It is the first and only biography of the place that made and continues to make innovation history. Swaine and Freiberger capture the emotions and motivations at the core of this very special place with tenderness and finesse that endure to this day.”

Andy Cunningham, founder and president, SeriesC

“The breadth of his personal network of people in the computer and publishing world is astounding.”

Al Williams, contributing editor, Dr. Dobb’s Journal

“Fire in the Valley is the memory lane of personal computing’s early years... reading like a high-tech Three Musketeers, but with characters out of Dickens by way of Popular Electronics. A book not to be missed, just plain good reading about the drama of the kids next door turning their dreams into millions.”

John Markoff, The New York Times

“Michael is a brilliant thinker and witty writer about issues related to application development, the IT market, and life in general. His insights as the long-time columnist for the legendary Dr Dobb’s Journal are a major reason Dr Dobb’s will remain a legend.”

Mark Hall, editor in chief, Miller Freeman

“Like indulgent gods, Freiberger and Swaine seem to love all of Silicon Valley’s children, but their hearts are clearly with the hobbyists and hackers, gifted weirdos and insanely curious oddballs, the ones they show us most clearly.”

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