Rainbow Writing, Inc.
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We’re a professional inexpensive, affordable freelance and contracted book authors, ghost writers, copy editors, proof readers, manuscript rewriters, graphics, book cover art and CAD artists, publishing assistants, script and screen writers, editors, analysts and coverage workers, and website developers international services corporation.
We usually charge by project size – and not expensive hourly rates. Our turnaround times are lightning fast, and we are both extremely thorough and deftly efficient. Our company does virtually everything in the abovementioned fields, and we professionally outsource anything else to suit your unique and particularized business needs.
I have been involved in the writing, editing and art design fields since well before 1980. I have won several prestigious writers awards for both poetry and prose. My published writing and editing credits include local and national newspapers, print and Internet magazines, and fiction and non-fiction short stories, novellas, novels and books. I also have copy edited and ghost written fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for several aspiring, technical and academic authors, many of whom have been multiply published. And I’ve written and edited articles, ad copy, business letters, sales letters, proposals for e-books and documents for various Internet-based companies and organizations. These are among my finest completed projects, and I have multitudinous life experiences to work from for you as well. I also now help authors find a literary agent or commercial publisher for their completed book manuscripts.
I am a proud member of several writers and editors organizations, including “The National Association of Women Writers,” with which I’m affiliated; “Today’s Woman,” a prestige group of poetry writers who “bring poets together”; “Working Writers,” a discrete, highly discriminating and limited-membership group of working writers, editors, and publishers; “Copy Editors,” an Internet-based group devoted solely to the fine art of copy editing; “Writerfind” of New Zealand, where I list as a copy editor, editor, and ghost writer; “TFG” of New York City, where I work occasionally as a ghost writer; “The eWriters’ Guild,” which is described as ‘a society of talented and noteworthy writers of the Web’; “Freelance Writers,” which is for all kinds of sophisticated freelancers; “Authors Den,” of which I am a Bronze Member; “Writing.com,” where my review work averages 4.65 out of 5 stars; and the “Comic Writing and Humour” and “Journalism” groups of Write Words, a premier writers association of the UK. I was accepted for membership in a highly exclusive group of writers and other creative artisans called “Phenomenal Women of the Web,” and was welcomed into their upper circle, becoming the “Epitome of a Phenomenal Woman.” Also, I was active in Simply Enchanting Angels, a philanthropic women’s group of the Web. I joined Mike’s Writing Workshop, and I am also an ongoing member of GreatReporter.com, where many of our very best filed Internet worldwide news stories are kept. I am currently listed with Daylo, WriteSight and WritersNet. I am an Expert Author at Ezine Articles, having attained their Platinum (10% of the Expert Authors) membership, which is only given without fee being paid to a few writers who submit their articles to this content-driven service. And I am also an Expert Author at ArticleClick.com, where I am multiply published.
I was also taken on as the in-house Fiction and Poetry Editor by “Literary Magic” online literary arts magazine in 2007, getting to continue this position in 2008 and 2009 and on into 2010. They host my brief biography and occasionally take my story contributions. I was also a poet at another online literary arts magazine, “The Jimson Journal,” which sadly recently folded. But you can look up our work there, as it’s still stored online. And I was nominated for membership in the International Society of Poets, which I may finally go ahead and join, being one of their Poet Fellows. Lastly, I’m a member in good standing of the Canadian Federation of Poets, where they run my brief biography.
I have copy edited multiple websites, am continuously writing and editing text copy for websites, articles and business documents, and have many returning satisfied customers on my clientele list. I was recently hired to write a few short articles per week for an Internet weight loss company as its in-house features contributor, but had to forsake that job due to low pay and boredom. I hereby ask you to consider always paying us what you think we’re worth, rather than trying only to “save money.” But we will always try to work, as a team and as me separately, within your needed budget.
As stated above, I have been a freelance and contracted manuscript book ghostwriter, copyeditor, proofreader, rewriter, cowriter, coauthor and book author of many published and going to be published books. I don’t do script or screen writing lately, as I send that out to capable pros in those fields on our team. One thing we will always do is try to match you with the right professional writer or artist for whatever job or project you need done, and I can usually provide references as needed.
You may purchase my (and our team’s) ghost written books through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, as well as other planetary book venues. Several of the books I have written or edited do not have my name anywhere on the cover, as I am a ghost writer, although it might be somewhere within the book. Sometimes I am credited as the book’s “editor,” even though I wrote most or all of the book myself. Also, I am not allowed to talk about certain books in detail, such as the one I copy edited for a famous university professor, due to ethical reasons.
Ghost writers are not supposed to have written “their” books themselves. Each book is seen as the sole property of the book’s original author, which is usually you. The authors of the books are sometimes cited as the people who hire us to write them, but you don’t have to give your ghost writer any credit whatsoever. This is perfectly legal – and is done with the full consent of both author and ghost writer. It’s considered to be a paid job of work done discretely and professionally, with full copyrights staying with the book’s author. But most of our clients don’t mind crediting me or us with some work – as I have over thirty years’ experience as a pro freelance book manuscript ghost writer, copy editor, proof reader, rewriter, cowriter and coauthor – and our other writers and editors are typically just as experienced.
I have some 150 books out, which I have worked on with many other people. Some were written by me; most were ghost written or copy edited and rewritten by me; and some were only helped out on, advised on, researched for, analyzed and/or proof read by me. These are all nonetheless to my credit, published and not published, on and off the market, and visible or otherwise when it comes to my being able to cite them. It’s simply that in 90% of the cases, I received no written credits for my work. For example, I helped out on “A Life Less Ordinary,” which was made into a blockbuster movie, but received no credit whatsoever for my work on that particular project.
I have five of my own books published, but the credits for them all run under another name, to which I have since sold the rights to a major publisher. I have coauthored several novels where my name is nowhere on the credits, but I performed most of the job – from preliminary to finishing work. Sometimes I appear as the book’s “Editor” somewhere, such as on the Acknowledgments page, but in most cases I’m not shown at all. It’s become more standard practice in recent times to credit ghost writers, especially since I began my Internet days; so lately I’m a little more “out and about.”
For example, a typical Spartan book credit for me nowadays runs within the Acknowledgements page: “I couldn’t have done this without the help of my Editor, Karen Cole Peralta.” I tend to get mentioned as a coworker with family and friends, which is a nice “homey” style of credit. But in many cases, I don’t ever get mentioned anywhere. Lots of my clients want to be seen as their book or other work’s only writer, which is fine with me. As long as I’m paid for my work, I’m happy. And it’s not seen as a dishonest practice – you are simply paying me to assist you with your own writing. I consider it good marketing, my livelihood, and the privilege of the author, who either simply didn’t have time to write a book or had plenty of good ideas and no way to cogently or grammatically express them in the English language. I make my living from working on your own original work, and improving it. So I don’t always need full or even partial credit for what I do for you – you are the true author of your own work.
Thus, the below is a partial list of credits, although many of my client authors have been willing to list references as long as I detail exactly what I did for them. On the other hand, I once helped out on a book about a male celebrity, a famous radio “shock jock,” and I’m not allowed to say what I did, nor am I allowed to cite that book’s title. Either case is typical of my clients nowadays. I have also proofed, edited, written, researched, helped out on or rewritten portions or all of the contents of the books listed below, not to mention the list of some high points of my other published works.
Starting in 2006 in particular, I have been outsourcing (to our capable professional team) many of the ghost writing and copy editing jobs that come into this company, as well as graphics, search engine optimization, website creation and other jobs. But when it comes to my own work: I rewrote an artist’s statement for a famous graphics artist, near the end of 2007; I copy edited, rewrote and proof read a book on general sales techniques and another book about a system for winning at horse races in late 2007; I proof read a Russian textbook on a new method of reaching the minds of small children in the summer of 2007; and I was the lead ghost writer for a promotional literature in-house manual, published by a company on Madison Ave., NYC, in the beginning of 2007. As for outsourcing, I have sent a book out to one of our capable “ghosts” this year concerning CIA activity in South America, and am always sending out other projects. Please inquire with us at our email address if you are interested in becoming one of our ghost writers. But be warned – we only take those with proper educational and experience credentials. However, we will consider very talented beginners with the proper education and some related experience credentials, after carefully reviewing your related work and good references.
When it comes to books for which I have been a ghost writer, there are several. For example, one I’m quite proud of, “AC 666″ – I can’t list the real title – was authored by CO III and ghost written mostly by me. It was published in both New York and Washington State. The book is a factually based and highly technically detailed science fiction novel, involving time travel, Mars, religion, conspiracy theory, space aliens, and real life current nanotechnology, not to mention cutting edge rocket science. It’s set to be made into a major motion picture, when and if the many deals involving it come through. It was first published in 2005 and then in 2006, when the promotional ad campaign on it began. It’s been mentioned on TV several times, and was promoted on “Hannity and Combes.” The author is a multimillionaire, and I can’t wait for the movie to finally premiere- we are all holding our breaths on this one.
karenperalta 6:05 pm on November 13, 2009 Permalink |
Anyone who wants to contact me for a ghostwriting job in 2009 or 2010, please write me at karencole@rainbowriting.com rather than posting here. I check this blog with great infrequency.
karenperalta 5:54 pm on November 13, 2009 Permalink |
Dear Natalie,
I haven’t checked on my WordPress blog for a long time. Are you still interested in hiring us to ghostwrite your book? If not, how did you do on it? Please let me know by writing to karencole@rainbowriting.com and thank you very much.
Yrs,
Karen Cole Peralta
karenperalta 12:53 am on November 23, 2009 Permalink |
Dear Natalie,
Please visit our website at http://www.rainbowriting.com if you are still looking for a ghostwriter. You can also write me directly at karencole@rainbowriting.com with any questions about our ghostwriting services. We will ghost a full book of 200-400 pages for you for only $5000, and will copyedit an existing manuscript for only $2000-3000. Please write and let me know more in detail about your project. And thank you very much!
Yrs,
Karen Cole
Rainbow Writing, Inc.