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As my editing jobs have become more numerous, I have updated my Editing Fees and Guidelines. My editing and proofreading includes checking for grammar, sentence structure, misspellings, and pointing out plot inconsistencies, etc. At this time, my base charge is $0.008/word, with a minimum of $50, payable via PayPal. Editing jobs I am currently working on, received before May 1, 2014, will continue to be edited at the old rate.
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Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1)
MINUS FIFTY STARS!!!!!What IS it with women these days, thinking RAPE is sexy?????? Are these all Romney Republicans, who think that women should ALL be tied up, beaten and raped, then have to carry and raise any kids that come from rape?
Oh, goodie, lets create a whole generation of psychotics - the mothers suffering from the rape and the hatred of the kids that are the result, and the hatred of the kids who are hated by everyone around them for being the outcome of rape??
This book GLORIFIES conduct that should DISGUST any woman - and you are all talking about how GOOD it is?!?! Let's see, you are tied to a tree, have your clothes ripped off, have his hand shoved up inside you, then he says, "Oh, well, if you don't want to, we don't do it. . . " then she just stands there, without saying a word, and let's him rape her - oh, but it is really ok, right? She wanted it, right? Like if some stalker sneaks into your bedroom at night, ties you up, pistol whips you, and rapes you, that is all Okey Dokey, because he really does "love" you, and you will come to love him too, right? It is all in Fun?????
I know things are bad everywhere right now, and women are suffering enough from having to carry the water for the rest of the world, but what in the WORLD are these women writers THINKING???? More to the point, they wouldn't be WRITING the books if women didn't READ them .... WHAT IS GOING ON???? Is a majority of the female population really willing to go back to a time when abortions were performed with coat hangers and if you are beaten, raped and murdered by a man, you just had it coming?!?? I am simply sickened by this trend. Sick, sick, sick.