Freelance Opportunities
Thank you for your interest in freelancing for the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. We publish scholarly works in the humanities and social sciences under our Rowman & Littlefield and Lexington Books imprints, reference and library science books under our Scarecrow Press imprint, and serious nonfiction trade books under our Taylor Trade Publishing imprint. To be considered for proofreading and copyediting work at RLPG, all freelancers must take our standard tests and have email; proofreaders must be able to print out a booklength set of page proofs on their printers. NOTE: Because of payment issues, we are unable to work with freelancers outside the United States and Canada.
Proofreaders | Copyeditors | Indexers
Please download and complete our proofreading test (manuscript & pageproofs) using The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) and Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) as your references. For the test, please proofread the section of page proofs against the corresponding section of the copyedited manuscript for dropped text, formatting, etc. Continue with a "cold" proofread on the page proofs checking for spelling, consistency, and sense. Please mark changes clearly in the margins using standard proofreading marks and identify printer’s errors as PEs. Queries may be written in the margin or on notes affixed to the page. Don’t forget to write your name on the test.
Note: We are accepting very few proofreaders at this time.
To take the proofreading test you will need Acrobat Reader to download and print it.
Return the test and your resume to:
Lynn Weber
Freelancer Coordinator
4501 Forbes Blvd.
Suite 200
Lanham, MD 20706
Please allow 4-6 weeks for our review. We are unable to provide detailed feedback on your test, but will inform you of your results by email.
Please download and complete the disk copyediting test (a Microsoft Word 97 file, zipped) using your word processing system’s redlining feature to copyedit this text and using the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) and Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) as your references. You should edit for style, consistency, sense, grammar, and spelling. Queries to the author/editor should be boldface, set off by square brackets, and embedded directly into the text; do not use the comments feature or highlights in Word. When you are done, e-mail the redlined test, your style sheet, and resume (please zip the files together in one zip file) to Lynn Weber. Be sure to include your name on the test.
Please allow 4–6 weeks for our review. We are unable to provide detailed feedback on your test, but will inform you of your results by email.
We occasionally add new freelance indexers to our existing roster. If you are interested in having your resume on file with us, please send your resume, samples, and list of books to:
Lynn Weber
4501 Forbes Blvd.
Suite 200
Lanham, MD 20706
Although we cannot respond to resumes because of the volume of indexing resumes we receive, we will keep your information on file and contact you if we have work.