Editorial Services of Los Angeles (ESOLA) & Lisa Rojany Buccieri

EDITORIAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES (ESOLA) is devoted to helping writers make their work the best it can be.

EDITORIAL SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES has been in business for over 20 years, and has helped many writers — of both children's and grown-up books — get published or improve their chances for publication.

ESOLA offers everything from line editing to ghostwriting, book packaging, and creative and developmental consulting.

* Line editing: ESOLA will go through a manuscript from start to finish and edit every line for everything from grammar, spelling, and style to drama, pacing, and characterization, and anything in between. Editing done on a hard copy of the manuscript or using the change tracking tool for an electronic document. Detailed critique letter included.

* Book doctoring: ESOLA edits and fixes a manuscript that has already been written.

* Copy editing: ESOLA can fact check your book for accuracy; usually used for nonfiction books.

* Creative & publishing development: ESOLA can help you turn your idea into a flat children's book, novelty book, grown-up book, or series of books. If you are a publishing or packaging house or even a toy company in search of new material, ESOLA can help spice up your lists—handling any stage of the process from concept through manufacturing and delivery to your warehouse.

* Ghost writing: ESOLA will write or rewrite the original manuscript from start to finish — uncredited or credited on the book, as you wish.

* Literary consultations: ESOLA helps new and seasoned writers determine the literary merits of a work in progress. This can range from a read-through of the work and a citing of general impressions to more involved editing for character development to complete line editing. ESOLA can also edit during the publication process to help you through the publisher's edits.

* Proposal writing: ESOLA helps you deliver a solid proposal for a book or series of books, including pitch/​query letter, marketing plans, evaluation of competition, bio, table of contents, publicity, and sample chapters.

* Proofreading: ESOLA checks one proof of a book against another printed proof of the book to make sure it doesn't have misspellings, nothing is missing, images correspond to text, and all the edits were performed as indicated.

* Read-through and general evaluation: ESOLA performs a general, overall reading of the work, which points out the major flaws that need to be addressed without necessarily telling the writer how to go about executing them in detail.

* Writing coach: A writing coach works one-on-one with you. ESOLA can be your editor, teacher, and mentor throughout the entire publishing process.

* Writing workshops: ESOLA offers writing workshops. These are small classes lead by an editor or writer. Writers are assigned based on work in progress.

1. Email ESOLA your complete manuscript — see formatting requirements below. (If you prefer, you may snail mail us a hard copy instead — don't forget the prepaid SASE! — please email us for address.)
2. Tell ESOLA what type of service you are interested in and the format of your book (adult fiction or nonfiction, picture book, middle-grade novel, YA novel, nonfiction picture book, novelty book, etc.).
3. Don't forget to tell ESOLA if you are a member of any professional writers' organizations (you will get a substantial discount on the $150 hourly fee).
4. Usually within 48 hours ESOLA will email you (or call you if you prefer) with an estimate of how much the service you have chosen will cost.
5. You let ESOLA know if the estimate is acceptable to you. (For need-based clients, ESOLA may work on a sliding scale.)
6. If you agree to the amount specified, you send ESOLA a cashier's check or money order for the estimated amount (don't forget the SASE). When it clears, ESOLA puts you on the schedule and starts! ESOLA can usually get your work back to you within 3-4 weeks. Rush clients please indicate deadlines in your cover letter or email query.
7. If ESOLA goes under the estimated amount, ESOLA will simply send the money back in a personal check with the manuscript. If ESOLA needs to go over, ESOLA will contact you first and ask you if you want us to continue or to stop and send what we have. (ESOLA has only needed to go over the estimated amount once in 15 years and that was because the writer was a nonnative English speaker whose every sentence needed rewriting.)

ESOLA is professional, fast, on target, and reliable. Specific line editing is usually done right on the manuscript, and we provide you with a critique letter that is more generalized. ESOLA encourages feedback — our goal is to help you make your work the best it can be and get it ready for submission ASAP.

ESOLA can also help you craft a great query letter if you wish — so include it if you want help with that as well!

ESOLA requests that you submit the manuscript in Courier font, 12 point, with 1-inch margin on the left, ragged right text, double spaced, and continuously paginated with all your contact info on the first page. Microsoft word documents with the .doc suffix are preferred (no Vista .docx please).

• DISNEY (English Language Learning Program using Disney characters)
• LIFE'S BUILDING BLOCKS (book development)
• TREASURE BAY (writing and editing phonics book series)
• THE SCARLET STOCKINGS TRILOGY: The Enchanted Riddle by Charlotte Kandel (Dutton Children's Books, Spring 2008)
• THERE'S AN EASTER EGG ON YOUR SEDER PLATE! Surviving Your Child's Interfaith Marriage, by Steven Carr Reuben, Ph.D. (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, edited)
• INTERVISUAL BOOKS/​PIGGY TOES PRESS
• THE GO-TO GUIDE FOR GUYS: THE ABCs FOR EXPECTANT DADS by Todd Barrett Lieman (agented, Dalmatian Press, 2007)
• TANGLEWOOD BOOKS (Edited THE MICE OF BISTROT DES SEPT FRERES, 2006, and other YA titles, including 64 KNOTS and TWO MOON PRINCESS)
• MERRY LANE PRESS (Edited all children's titles for this new publisher in 2004, 2005, 2006)
• SIMON & SCHUSTER (Created books for)
• SILVER DOLPHIN/​AMS (Created books for)
• CARTWHEEL/​SCHOLASTIC (Created books for)
• ROBIN COREY BOOKS/​RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS (Wrote SAMMMY'S SUITCASE, 2008)
• HARPERFESTIVAL (Created books for)
• SOUL AGREEMENTS by Dick and Tara Sutphen (Edited, Wiley, 2005)
• FOR THIS I AM GRATEFUL (Writing contributor, 2005, becker & mayer!)
• THE EAGLE HAS LANDED by J. A. Michelson (thriller in final edit)
• LEAH'S WAY, by Richard Botelho (Edited, 2003, Windstream Press)
• THE DEVIL'S BROOD by Ellen Jones (Edited, third in a series of historical novels)
• JUSTICE PROJECT (working title) by Mimi Latt (Edited, Simon & Schuster, pub date TK)
• ULTIMATE JUSTICE by Mimi L. Latt (1999, Simon & Schuster)
• PURSUIT OF JUSTICE by Mimi L. Latt (1998, Simon & Schuster)
• DISNEY INTERACTIVE (Creative consulting on development of “Princesses” CD-ROM, 1998)
• NEW AGE SHORT STORIES by Dick Sutphen (Edited, 1997, Valley of the Sun Publishing)
• BELOVED ENEMY by Ellen Jones (Edited, 1994, Simon & Schuster)
• POWERS OF ATTORNEY by Mimi L. Latt (Edited, 1993, Simon & Schuster)
• THE NASTY DRAGON by Richard Sutphen (Edited, 1993, Valley of the Sun)
• THE ULTIMATE HOLLYWOOD TOUR BOOK by William Gordon (Edited, 1992, North Ridge Books)
• AHA! ENTERTAINMENT, an L.A.-based production company (Editing)
• WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, MI. (Editing)
• SPINE-TINGLING PRESS, LOS ANGELES, an adult trade fiction imprint (Editing)
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR (Editing)
• GLENCOE DIVISION, MACMILLAN /​ MCGRAW-HILL CO. (Editing)
• SILVER BURDETT & GINN (Editing)
• MIT UNIVERSITY PRESS (Editing)
• FIDELITY, INC., BOSTON, MA. (Editing)
• HEINLE & HEINLE PUBLISHERS, INC. (Editing)