| I have known Verlie Hutchens for several years and have found her work as a copyeditor and proofreader to be excellent. She is quite prompt, usually giving immediate response. Her keen eye and ear for detail, accompanied by her years of experience reading and writing children's literature, give her a distinct advantage in providing thorough line edits. She recently dove into my 42,000 word young-adult manuscript and not only caught a number of grammatical, punctuation and word misuse errors, but also provided me with great insights into improving the depth and emotional resonance of several of my characters. Sharry Phelan Wright |
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"I think one of the luckiest days of my writing life was when I landed in a critique group with Verlie Hutchens. She had a wonderful writer's feel for language and words and rhythm. She has a keen editorial eye for the details of the writing craft. And she has an artist's finely-tuned sense of illustration, proportions, and how to marry pictures to words. Verlie's perspective and advice have been invaluable to me in almost everything I write—from final revisions on a new picture book manuscript (FIREFLY MOUNTAIN; Peachtree Publishers) to a recent nonfiction magazine article on Benjamin Franklin (A SHOCKING THING TO DO; Appleseeds, Dec. 2004)." Patricia Thomas
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| "Dear Verlie, I just wanted to tell you that I have passed your name on to a friend who is looking for a copyeditor. I hope you can fit her in. I've told her to look no farther than yourself. I was delighted with the approach you have taken. You seemed to know how to fix the manuscript while respecting my writing style. (So many copyeditors seem to think their job is to rewrite the manuscript!) Regards, Gloria Spielman" ~Janusz Korczak's Children (working title), Lerner Publishing, 2007 |
"Verlie's insights are invaluable to me. One of her greatest strengths is putting her finger on exactly what's off about a particular passage. I'm especially grateful for her patiently reading and re-reading (and RE-READING!) many drafts of the manuscript that I eventually sold to Dutton. Couldn't have done it without her!" Kim Norman
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| "As a freelance writer I have relied on Verlie Hutchens for the past two years for thorough and insightful editing as well as exacting proofreading. She has consistently given prompt, accurate and precise feedback." Ruthann Heidgerken |
| Verlie had a hand in Glove (Look Ma, I made a pun!) when I subbed it to our online critique group.
Gail Johnson
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