These services are charged
by word count, one cent ($.01) per three (3) words. A 50,000 word manuscript
evaluation or copy edit would total $150.00. There is a $30 minimum charge.
Additional charges may apply if the manuscript requires extensive evaluation
or editing.
Interior Book
Design Typesetting and
Formatting
Design services start
at $30. Print typesetting services start at 1/2 cent per word (minimum
charge $100). Electronic typesetting (html, pdf conversions, etc.)
1/2 cent per word (minimum charge $100).
Book Covers
E-books -- front only
-- start at $25.
Print books (front,
back, spine) -- start at $75.
Copywriting
Taglines and teasers are
$10 each.
Longer projects are
charged at $0.05 per word, with a minimum charge of $10.00 per project.
Web Works
~Website/blog header,
$15.
~Image mapping, $25.
~One page website,
$40.
~Multiple page sites,$10
for each additional page.
~Static splash screen,
$25.
~Facebook graphics:
profile image, $15; welcome graphic, $25; both, $35.
~Static banners, $12.Animated
banners, $12 plus $1.50 for each additional impression.
Video Trailers
Prices start at $25 (not
including cost of images).
Promotional Design
Business card, bookmark,
post card, brochure & flyer design, all start at $10. Romance trading
cards start at $15.
Consultation
Orders include two e-mail
consultations -- one pre-design when you provide information about your
story or other product and any suggestions for your design, and an in-process
consultation to evaluate the preliminary design.
Payment
Twenty-five percent of
the payment is due after the first consultation, with the remainder due
upon delivery of product/service. Payments are to be made via PayPal. Other
methods of payment may be implemented in the future.
Graphic Design --
I have been doing graphic design since high school, firstdesiging and creating
flyers, brochures and posters for church and school. For various employers,
I have created flyers for such special events such as child-safety-seat
inspection day and a senior fitness event. In the days before desktop publishing,
I edited and produced a monthly newsletter for a senior support agency
where I worked.
In conjunction with graphic
design, my desktop publishing experience goes back to the 1980s, when I
used an early version of Page Stream on my Amiga 1000. I learned DTP producing
flyers and brochures for political campaigns and various causes (frequently
at no charge) and planning and preliminary design of the tabloid newsweekly,
The
Florida Sun, prior to its launch.
My graphic design experience
includes transitioning to the digital/internet field, including web page
components. Although I am not primarily an illustrator, my experience includes
pencil/ink and digitally created artwork.
Writing & Editing--
I was a staff writer for a local tabloid news weekly, The Florida Sun.
I
also wrote, edited published my first novel, Southern Man. My second,
Storm
Surge, was published by Desert Breeze Publishing, April 2011. As a
staff writer for The Florida Sun I produced two original articles
per issue, and selected and edited news service stories and articles. In
addition, I have five years experience in online and local critque groups.
Business writing experience
dates to the late 1970s, to my first product, a manual for intake secretaries
of a multi-county social service agency in the Midwest, and includes composition
of business and political correspondance and grant applications.
Video production and
post production -- My experience dates to the 1980s, when my sister
and I partnered in a wedding video company and produced computer graphics
and animations for broadcast video production companies in west Florida
and south Alabama. Clients for the latter included various advertising
agencies, the Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola NAS, Ingall's Shipbuilding
in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama's "Clean and Green" campaign.
In the 1990s, I shot and
edited numerous political videos, mostly campaign commercials, for my employer,
a United States Congressman, including several half-hour television programs
for broadcast on a local-access TV station.
Web design --
I taught myself .html coding starting in 1999 and used the knowledge to
publish a monthly e-zine on Southern culture and politics that ran online
from 2000 to 2004.
I created and currently maintain
several blogs and three of my own websites, ConnieChastain.com
and BrasstownBooks.com and this
one, Word Slinger Boutique, along with another author site, TommieLyn.com.
Software used
For typesetting --
Print books: QuarkXpress, Serif's Page Plus, Open Office. Usually output
as a pdf files. Electronic books: Open Office, Netscape Composer, Note
Tab Lite.
For website creation
--
initially laid out in Netscape Composer. The resulting html code is tweaked
and edited/fine tuned in my workhorse text editor, Note Tab Lite.
For graphic design
-- Adobe PhotoDeluxe, Ultimate Paint, Serif Draw, Microsoft GIF Animator
For video editing --
Microsoft MovieMaker, Serif's Movie Plus, Audacity sound editor.
Limitations of Use
Word Slinger Boutique markets
our products and services to independent publishers and authors primarily
of genre fiction, particularly romance fiction, although we welcome any
and all who wish to use our services. As promoters of romance fiction,
we understand and approve of explorations of the
sexual nature of romance relationships. However, we will not knowingly
promote pornography, erotica, same-sex or multiple partner romance, or
portrayals of pre-marital or extra-marital sex as acceptable and positive,
or stories that encourage rape, incest, or bestiality, or portray reward,
profit or benefit from illegal, immoral behavior.
NOTE-- Some of the
products depicted on this site are fictitious and represent no actual publication,
author or publisher. They are used for illustration of our experience and
software capabilities only.
Word Slinger Boutique and
Connie Chastain Ward make no warranties for the products and services offered
on this site. We accept no legal liabilities for the use of our products
except for those specifically required by applicable law. We reserve the
right to alter or amend or discontinue our products, services and information
at any time. Links to or mention of third party websites or businesses
do not necessarily constitute endorsements or recommendations regarding
those sites. We welcome links to this site that are appropriate in design
and content. We accept no responsibility for the content of third party
sites displaying links to Word Slinger Boutique or any loss or damage arising
from the use of links to our site.
