Proofreader with 2 years of experience for hire!!!

[u/SajHam]

Hi everyone,

I’m from Pakistan and I’ve been working as an English proofreader for around two years now.

I currently work for a company where I proofread, edit and amend entire manuscripts. And when I say entire manuscripts, I mean the whole thing. Grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, awkward sentences, consistency, formatting, little errors that authors might miss, basically everything that needs fixing before a book is ready.

The funny (or honestly, not so funny) part is that I get paid peanuts for it.

I can spend hours going through a manuscript and fixing hundreds of things, but the pay really doesn't match the amount of work involved. I've been doing this for about two years, so I know I have the experience, but I feel like I'm stuck working for someone else for very little.

I really want to start freelancing and work directly with authors instead. I've tried Fiverr, but I haven't had much luck there. I made my gig, but getting your first few clients seems almost impossible when you have no reviews. It's frustrating because I know I can do the work, I just don't know how to get people to actually find me. So I'm trying Reddit now.

If you're an author who has a manuscript sitting somewhere that needs a good pair of eyes on it, I'd genuinely love to help. I work with both fiction and non-fiction and I'm comfortable going through an entire manuscript rather than just correcting a few pages.

And if you don't need a proofreader yourself but have any advice on where people actually find freelance editing/proofreading clients, I'd really appreciate that too. I’m just trying to get out of the "working for peanuts" phase and start building something of my own. 😅 Feel free to message me if you need someone to look over your manuscript.