Hi - thanks so much for getting back to me,
and for your kind words (necklaces?)
I consider myself a New Yorker, too, having
lived there for 25 years, before a decade
in N. Calif. and now back to my hometown,
Montreal.
Re the sample you sent;  great copy-editing.
A few questions:
1) what would be your fee to edit a chapter
the size of the one I sent you?
2) I might need more than copy-editing.  Parts of this material were written at different times and for different purposes (the first few pages - the ones you edited)
were meant for a book proposal, not necessarily for the intro chapter of a whole book.  So I think I'll need "major surgery" -
really looking at the entire concept, editing
out repetitive sections, maybe even reorganizing or brutally cutting out
irrelevancies or tangents.  I'm too close to
this to do it for myself.
Comments?
Best, Elaina