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Karen Cole Peralta
Executive Director
We're a professional inexpensive freelance and contracted book authors, ghost writers, copy editors, manuscript rewriters, graphics and CAD artists, publishing assistants, 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.
Our outsource workers are carefully screened, and they're the most professional and capable available on the World Wide Web. We will always perform for you - and that’s it, period. Hand us all your important projects, and you will see what we can do. We are the best in the business at giving you precisely what you require - to suit your every desire, whimsy or need.
Our hundreds of published feature, news and other articles are too lengthy to list herein, and are also held under copyright status laws due to many of them being by ghost writers. Often, when you are a ghost writer, you are not allowed to have any credit for your work. However, I will show you a brief sampling of my personal portfolio on the third page of this website.
RELATED EXPERIENCE:
I fervently hope you don't think this and the below is "boasting" or being arrogant. My and our authors' published books have been featured on "Hannity and Combes," "Montel Williams" and on the list for published books on "Oprah Winfrey." They've also been on the "New York Times Bestseller" lists, promoted in France and the UK, and sold at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and other major booksellers around the world. The skies are really the limits with your own book or books as well.
I am a member of many writers and editors groups, 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; "TFG" of Madison Ave., 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; and the "Comic Writing and Humour" and "Journalism" groups of Write Words, a premier writers association of the UK. I also recently joined the "Writing Mafia" group at Yahoo! groups. I used to keep my older pro portfolio at "Writing.com," where my review work averaged 4.65 out of 5 stars. I may join them again someday, but for now I'm keeping my recent portfolio at MSN's SkyDrive:
It costs nothing - and is much safer than Writing.com in certain ways. You may access each item in the portfolio if you have either Word 97-2008, Word 2007 or Word Perfect, and even download any of my pieces to view them later at your leisure. I simply ask you to not reproduce or redistribute them.
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 have been an in-house poet, writer and editor at "Literary Magic" online literary arts magazine for the past two years, since 2007. I'm currently on staff there as the resident Fiction and Poetry Editor. They host my editor's brief biography and occasionally take my story and poetry contributions. I was also on staff as a poet at another literary arts online magazine, "The Jimston Journal," until it folded. "Twisted Tongue" dark arts literary magazine of the UK recently accepted one of my longer short stories for its winter of 2008 issue. I was also nominated for membership several times over in the International Society of Poets, and I have now attained their advanced membership. I am a member in good standing of the Canadian Federation of Poets, where they too run my brief biography. And lastly, freelance writer and media producer Linda Leon, head of MVP Print and Media Productions, has brought me into her team of media professionals as of March 2009.
WORK HISTORY:
I have performed professional work in the writing, editing and art fields since before 1980. I have won many prestigious writers awards, several of which have been from my work on the Internet. 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 have also been a ghost writer, copy editor, manuscript rewriter and proof reader for several fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for technical, psychiatric, medical and academic authors, many of whom have been multiply published. 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. And I've been a ghost writer, a copy editor, and a proof reader for several Internet websites, having designed much web copy and frequently updated it also.
These are among my finest completed projects, and I have multitudinous life experiences to work from for you as well. When it comes to being a publishing helper or assistant, I also help authors find literary agents or commercial publishers for their completed book manuscripts. I do charge an hourly fee for this service, up to twenty hours of searching, but I don't charge if I don't find a literary agent or publisher who is at least interested in your book manuscript.
RECENTLY PUBLISHED CREDITS:
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You may readily purchase my and our team's ghost written books through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, as well as other such planetary book venues.
"AC 666," not the real book's title, was authored by CO III and ghost written mostly by me. It was published by Port Orchard Publishing in 2006, having been published in New York City in 2005. It's a factually based science fiction novel set to be made into a major motion picture, when and if the deals involved come through. The author and his wife have been featured on "Hannity and Combes" and other TV and radio shows, being interviewed about their book. I also recently copy edited and rewrote a book that made it to the top of the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. I have basically proofed, edited, written, researched or rewritten portions or all of the contents of the books listed below, not to mention the list of some high points of my recent other published works.
Don't ever think I'm merely a poetess; my work is sometimes poetical in its nature, but I also write both fiction and non-fiction prose quite capably. Howsoever, in both 2007 and 2008, I was nominated for Poet of the Year - and appointed a Poetry Ambassador by Poetry.com. They host the International Library of Poetry. Recently, I have won two of their "Outstanding Achievements in Poetry" awards. Several of my poems were or are going to be published in their 2006, 2007 and 2008 anthologies. My poem "Pregnant Because I'm Pregnant" - which won an Editor's Choice Award at Poetry.com in 2007 - was included, along with "Woes = Two Dozen Bears," which also won an Editor's Choice award. I have since won ten more Editor's Choice awards from them, including one for "You are NOT 'Disabled, Too'" in January of 2008, and I've won two Poetry Fellowships from them. I've also won three of their Best Poet awards. And my "Winter Calls the Way of Life" poem was published in their winter 2008 anthology, too.
You may also read a growing segment of my poetry at: Karen Peralta's Poetry.
Other poetry companies than Poetry.com have also been greatly intrigued by my poesy. My brief poem "Autumn Leaves Never Die" was accepted into the poetry anthology "Centres of Expression," which was published by Noble House. Two of my poems were accepted for inclusion in the Reese Tyler Poetry Anthology, and I won their best poetry award as well. I also copy edited and proof read a book length poem about St. Joan of Arc in 2007 for B. Kennedy, which was published in 2007. I haven't been mainly writing poetry in 2009, and am not currently planning on writing much more poetry in 2010. I am pretty much open for ghost writing jobs instead.
I have also contributed articles and corrections to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. I successfully entered and corrected an article on RSS codes and one on Center Park, the first apartment building in the United States built specifically for people with handicaps. I have written many service related blogs which are starting to get higher Google rankings, and will be writing several more. One of my favorite blogs, which is hosted on Google Blogger, features fan fiction I wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It helped land me a job in 2007 as the ghost editor of a book about the investigation of his assassination, which is about the life and times of the Birmingham, Alabama FBI team who investigated Dr. King's assassination, and who located and arranged for the arrest of his murderer. One of this FBI's team's members is the man who arrested the assassin of President Kennedy. Also, I recently worked on a book by a Mafia widow which revealed how the East Coast Mob was brought down by one man and how that same man stopped a plot to kill President Kennedy by assassinating his potential assassin.
Anyway, below this paragraph you will find a rundown of my recent projects, the ones I'm able to mention. Over the past 30+ years, I've worked on or assisted with the creation of hundreds of books, both fiction and non-fiction, and performed numerous other projects - such as assisting with screenplays. Many of the books I've ghost written, edited or otherwise assisted with their production have become best-sellers; but I'm not able to mention who wrote them, or the books' titles. Most especially when a book becomes a best seller, the author would rather take all due credit for his or her hard work. It's considered to be author's privilege, although if you don't mind, I can share credit with you as a book's coauthor or through the traditional ghost writer methods, such as using the phrase "As told to Karen Peralta" on the book jacket or cover, or using "This book would not be possible without the assistance of my editor, Karen Peralta" on the book's acknowledgments page.
However, I can give you some of my partly acknowledged work since I hit the Internet in 2003. Here's a list in the form of a very long run-on sentence, which is all right in this case: a fiction novel about three black ladies and how their love of God intertwines with their love lives, edited and rewritten with additional material by me, project to begin in August 2009; a non-fiction book about a Holocaust survivor's life experiences, co-authored by the survivor, me and the survivor's son, to be made into a movie produced in Florida next year; a young adult chapter book/fiction novel about a Hispanic girl with leukemia, edited, rewritten and proof read by me in May 2009, to be published sometime later this year; a fictionalized book on the non-fiction subject of home foreclosures, edited, rewritten and proof read by me in April 2009, to be published sometime later this year; a fan fiction short story about Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X, to be published in the August 2009 issue of NVF Magazine, an online and print horror magazine; a long, detailed synopsis for the science fiction book listed above by CO III and other related documents, completed in March 2009; a fiction based on fact memoirs about corrupt Florida government, murder and money laundering in the Caribbean, edited, rewritten, doubly proof read and the project overseen by me, finished in February 2009 and seeking representation; a non-fiction memoirs of a Mafia hit man by his widow, my work completed toward the end of 2008; a non-fiction book on English home party sales, rewritten by me, finished in September 2008; a non-fiction book on yoga by a Singapore teacher, rewritten and further researched by me, completed in May of 2008; "Timeless Wisdom," a book of wise and timeless quotes on how to become a success in life, by João de Saldanha, copy edited and further researched by me, finished in December of 2007; "The Boys of Birmingham," about the FBI team which handled the investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, by P. L. Ryan, copy edited and partly rewritten by me, finished in July 2008 and currently seeking representation; "The Tin Gods," a book about major corporations and how they control the world, by Dave Taylor, copy edited and rewritten by me, begun in mid 2007, to be finished sometime in the future - if Dave, a U.S. serviceman, comes back from the Middle East conflict; "Maid of Heaven: The Story of St. Joan of Arc," a book length poem published in mid 2007, by Ben Kennedy, proof read and edited by me; "Blending Botany and Budo," a non-fiction book about the martial arts and Chinese herbology, by Thomas Joiner, copy edited and proof read by me, published in 2006; "AC 666," a heavily researched science fiction novel based on much factual data by CO III, ghost written and doubly proof read by me and assisted with new material by a team of others, first published in late 2004, republished in early 2005; "Love's Dark Kiss," a dark fantasy novel by Michelle Krogh, copy edited and rewritten by me, published in 2005; "Escape Into Hell," a mystery crime thriller by Vincent DeCampo, copy edited and rewritten by me and published in mid 2004; "A Tale of Pangaea - Thais," a Latin-based fantasy novel by Christopher Brown, edited and rewritten by me, published in 2004; "DevilGod" and "Sarlakk," an adult dark fantasy novel and an adult science fiction novel, both by the famous artist Claudia San Luis, rewritten by me, published in 2004 and 2005 (I have also rewritten a short story for her, and she is going to hire me to rewrite three of her children's chapter books); "A Life Less Ordinary," a modern youthful autobiography, rewritten by me, published around 2004, made into a blockbuster movie; "Dragon Valley," a fantasy children's chapter book by Jack Orr, ghost written by me, published in 2004; "Why is America so Fat?" a medical information book by Ben Kennedy, edited by me, published in 2004; "Forever Young and Beautiful," a book about health, beauty, nutrition and childcare by Joanne Parrotta, researched and rewritten by me, published in mid 2004; a mid-length short story called "Fanfiction: A Most Genre-ous Offer," about the Twilight Zone and Batman, published in the November issue of "Twisted Tongue" literary arts online magazine; several short stories and poems for various issues of "The Jimston Journal" online literary arts magazine, in 2006 and 2007; an article published by Woman's Corner Magazine, their March 2006 issue; several articles on various topics both written and edited by me, or written by others and edited by me, published in various print and Internet venues; website copy for various clients; an article/blog called "The Sims Online Hosts the Mafia," which it used to do, published in a variety of venues; an article/blog on RSS, Atom, ROR and Google Sitemap XML/RDF codes for WebProNews, the Internet newsletter for serious webmasters; ad copy for e-books from Thomas Wallace of Human Imagineering; two ghost written science fiction stories, which were sold in PDF format on the Internet; several articles for newspapers, including “Seattle Downtown News,” “Single’s Life,” and “FishHeads,” all of the USA; articles on various subjects for the USA's AP and UPI news wire services; several pieces for magazines and university research, including “If Puget Sound is Falling Down,” about earthquakes in the Pacific NW, "Hippies of Ohio," for Athens Magazine, and “Improving Team Management,” for AIU Magazine; “Office Politics” and “Three Nights of Awesome Splendor,” two formula-written adult humorous fiction stories involving humiliating catfights for a New York City and Internet-based reading company; “Bubbleator 2050,” a science fiction story for “The Crusader” literary magazine of Seattle; a ghost written article which was published in several Deaf Community media about the prevalence of gossip and slander among Deaf People; several other articles, including one for Starbuck's about their version of a coffee-wearing superhero who sports a special self-pouring beverage machine to promote their restaurant, containing a lengthy interview with the device's inventor; an interview with Seattle area mental health authorities and another interview about UFO national government cover-ups; "I Wish It Could Have Been Otherwise" and "How a Head Cold Got Me Married," both written for book anthologies in 2003, and both award-winning and favorably criticized stories; and interviews with local and national musical and artistic figures, including blind musician/writer/publisher/author Douglas Bright of Seattle and famed country-western singer Dolly Parton. I was also a Staff Editor and Writer on the Human Imagineering Company's "WebZine." And I have several poems on file with the International Library of Poetry at Poetry.Com, where I've won awards such as their Editor's Choice award - at least six times now.
For the last three years, however, I've been outsourcing to our professional team many of the ghost writing and copy editing jobs that come into this company, as well as graphics, website editing, and whatever rolls in. But when it comes to my own work, among other unlisted projects, I managed to: coauthor a promo lit ghost writing manual for a book publishing company on Madison Ave of NYC; proof read and copy edit a Russian textbook on a new method of reaching the minds of small children in summer; copy edit/rewrite a book on general sales techniques and another book about a system for winning at English horse races in autumn; and rewrite a graphic three dimensional artist's annual statement of purpose. We also outsourced a book about murder, political cover-ups and money laundering in the Caribbean to one of our "ghosts" - and it may sell reasonably well. Due to the economy, the money is getting tighter when it comes to book publishing. We are hoping things will improve in the future, and encourage you to attempt this exciting experience with us.
I have done much other work, both recently and from years ago, which cannot be listed above for privacy of client privilege reasons. Lastly, I am also the ongoing President and Executive Director of Rainbow Writing, Inc. As I have previously stated, RWI's workers include freelance and contracted ghost writers, copy editors, proof readers, manuscript rewriters, cowriters, coauthors, and book authors of several published and soon to be published book manuscripts. And I have been hired as a ghost writer, copy editor and proof reader for multiple websites, am continuously writing and editing text copy for websites, articles and business documents, and have many returning satisfied customers. I was also hired to write articles regularly for an Internet weight loss company as its features and short weight loss related articles contributor, a job which I had to forsake due to low pay. I must insist here that ghost writers do need to be paid properly for their good work and services, in most cases in advance of completing a job. We can sometimes make other arrangements in certain special cases, but generally speaking we need paid a decent wage in advance of our professional writing services.
RELATED EDUCATION:
From 1978 to 1980, I went to Ohio University of Athens, Ohio, and I attended other schools up through the nineties. I have a self-determined degree in journalism, the fine arts and creative writing. I have attended seven other institutions of higher learning, both on physical campuses and via the WWW, and I've taken several field related classes. I once co-taught a workshop in mass communications and magazine publishing. I also took an Internet-related training course in high-end sales letter writing for multinational corporations. As you can plainly see, I'm always in the process of continuing my own self education.
PERSONAL ENDING STATEMENT:
When it comes down to computers, writing, editing and the fine or the commercial arts, I feel that I'm largely self-taught. My greatest learning will always be through my own individual efforts. However, I have recently taken classes in both team dynamics and project management, and I feel capable of handling the basics of both project integration and group cooperation. I have lots of knowledge and team-oriented access regarding software, hardware and general "hacking around," and I could always stand to learn more and about virtually anything. And I retain ample knowledge regarding the realities of being a cooperative, vital, organized and inspirational team member.
Really, you should hire me and/or
the members of our RWI Outsource Team.
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