Let Us Write For You
martin@queensenglish.co.uk
Our services are many and varied: some we charge for, others we give you free – with our compliments. Our main purpose is not to make a lot of money (though some would be nice) but rather to promote the cause of good written English.
Over time, this website will develop into an authoritative resource of articles and tips, where people at all levels of learning can improve their written English skills. As with most skills, there can be no substitute for practice. The more you write, the better you will become – I guarantee it.
Our chargeable services include the following:
- Proof-reading
- Copy Editing
- Re-writing
- Article writing
- Technical brochure copywriting
- Sales copywriting
- Web copywriting
- Ghost writing
All are available as single services or in combination, and prices vary.
With modern spell-checkers, the work of the proof-reader may seem much reduced.
But take the words ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’. No spell-checker will highlight them – they are all correctly spelled – but in every instance two of them are incorrect. Then there are the pretentious words that go wrong. I once edited a newsletter where the writer described a method of remembering as ‘pneumonic’. It’s a correctly spelled word, but has nothing at all to do with remembering. The word he intended was ‘mnemonic’ – which most people would not have understood anyway.
If you have a letter, an essay, a sales email, a website page or any other piece of written English you want to create, the cheapest and most effective way is to write it out as well as you can, send it to us, and we will re-write it as necessary.
The best work will result from a clearly written brief where we write from scratch, but that is neither the cheapest nor the quickest way to proceed.
We will always agree a price in advance, and stick to it.
Our past work has included all of the following:
Websites
Well-written, grammatically correct, interesting pages of text are our speciality. We also undertake search engine optimisation for our web text assignments.
Magazine articles
We often ghost-write magazine articles for people who are experts in their field but whose written English is less than perfect. We have the satisfaction of seeing an informative article transformed into a well written piece of prose, while the client has the satisfaction of seeing their expert ideas expressed clearly and unambiguously. All their readers can then appreciate the value of the content without being distracted by unnecessary mistakes or clumsy writing.
Press releases
Although the style of a press release is often different from other forms of writing, it is important that the content is expressed in words that a news editor can copy and paste, without the need for endless re-writing. They are busy people: they aren’t searching for unnecessary work.
Sales letters
Whether paper copy or email, a sales letter has to grab the reader’s attention with a strong headline, hold it with interesting copy while they read your message, then persuade them to buy your product or service.
Brochures
If you’re spending hundreds (maybe even thousands) producing a glossy brochure for your holiday home investments, you certainly don’t want it riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, or clumsy prose.
Software User Manuals
Most copywriters shy away from such projects! But someone has to do them and, for an appropriate fee, we can always be persuaded. It will be fun and you will have a great product at the end.