Carol Bloom
Bloom Ink Publishing Professionals
Member since 1996

 

Committed to Lifelong Learning through Effective Communication

Mission
Bloom Ink provides editorial, marketing, and publishing consulting services to publishers, businesses, and authors of nonfiction.

Areas of Expertise
Bloom Ink’s content expertise is exclusively in nonfiction—education, humanities, history, and geography. Bloom Ink’s publishing expertise ranges from brochure copy and nonprofit organizations’ newsletters to academic journals and professors’ drafts to social studies textbooks and ancillaries, and trade reference books.

  • Editorial
    Proofreading
    Copyediting
    Developmental Editing
    Writing/Research
  • Marketing
    Copywriting
    Marketing Plan Writing (small business)
    Marketing Plan Implementation (as needed)
  • Publishing Consulting
    Manuscript Analysis
    Publisher Research
    Book Proposal Writing
    Full Representation to Publishers (nonfiction & education only)
  • Website Planning and Consulting
    Coordination for Client of Staff, Web Designer, and Internet Service Provider
    Develop text/content for client
    Proofread Text
    Test Downloading Speed and Links
    Independent Site Evaluation

Representative Projects

  • Editing 
    Edited and coded preferences for layout of Manners for the Oh! Generation, an etiquette handbook for young adults.
    Copyedited camera-ready pages of reference books: Historical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, Volume 2 and the Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism.  University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Writing
    Wrote book proposal for reading teacher resource book series for kindergarten teacher. Represented author to publisher through contract negotiations.  Bridge to Home series released in spring 2001.
    Wrote self-test questions for 10th-grade World History: The Human Experience. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Publishing.
    Wrote GED social studies practice exercises.
  • Copywriting
    Wrote text and coordinated web site development for bed & breakfast.    Commandant’s Home Bed & Breakfast (hot link: www.commhomeb-b.com).
    Wrote TV commercial scripts and coordinated production for local restaurant and bed & breakfast.
    Wrote new corporate identity brochure and television commercial for local cemetery.
  • Book Production Management
    Developed and produced text/study guide for 12th-grade Magruder’s American Government Prentice Hall.
    Developed and produced 80-page state-specific activity workbook for 8th-grade social studies program.  The American Nation. Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster Education Group.

Recognition

1997 Chicago Women in Publishing Award of Excellence

  • First Place in the Textbook Division
    Text for 12th-grade American Government, Essentials of American Government.
    Reading level reduced form 10.5 to 7.5
    Digested version of Magruder's American Government
    Targeted as text for poor readers and ESL students
    Also used as study guide by low-achieving students
    A Bloom Ink team wrote, edited, designed, illustrated, and paged this 192-page perfect-bound text/study guide. Bloom Ink sent disks in Quark Xpress to Prentice Hall's production department, ready for approval and printer output to film.

References

Please e-mail carol@bloomink.com and request Carol Bloom's resume and professional references.

Rates
Standard Rates and Policies for Our Full Range of Services

Project Management; Supervision & Planning $75 per hour
Web Site Planning  & Supervision $75 per hour
Writing; Proposal Writing $65 per hour
Copywriting $65 per hour
Copy Editing-Moderate edit (800-1,000 words per hour) $55 per hour
Proofreading $45 per hour
Web Site Link-testing/proof $45 per hour

Rates effective January 2, 2002

Call, fax, or e-mail us to discuss how we can help you with your publishing project. 

Estimates are eagerly given from detailed specs or sample

Advance Scheduling

Please make arrangements with Carol Bloom, President, no fewer than 5 workdays before startup to adequately schedule your assignment.

Rush Jobs

Bloom Ink has no minimum charge, but rush jobs that require putting aside other clients’ work are charged at 150 percent of the standard rate and same-day turnaround at 200 percent the standard rate.

Payment

Payment is expected 15 days from date of invoice unless other plans have been made at launch. An interest rate of 1.5 percent is charged on all accounts that pay later than 30 days from date of invoice.

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 



  
       
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