Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.—Alexander Graham Bell
Welcome to Compass Rose Horizons.
We offer expert proofreading, editing, book design, eBook conversion, and transcription services.
Credits
Thanks to the following people and sites who have contributed to our editing and proofreading pages.
Neil Bromley
Heraldic Artist, Calligrapher, and Illuminator
Neil Bromley is the artist responsible for our compass rose logo designs. He graduated with an H.N.D. in Calligraphy and Heraldry at the Reigate School of Art. His work includes family crests, shields, full coats of arms, freedom scrolls, and medieval miniatures. Commissions include an illuminated address to celebrate the 100th birthday of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, a scroll for the Queen of Denmark, and a heraldic family tree of the British Royal family.
You may visit Neil at the Calligraphy and Heraldry site.
Teacher helping pupils in a Washington, DC grammar school, 1944. Image courtesy the US Library of Congress.
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Many of our proofreading, editing, and grammar tips and publishing-related articles are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. It is the counterpart to the GNU General Public License that gives readers the same rights to copy, redistribute, and modify a work and requires all copies and derivatives to be available under the same license. Copies can also be sold commercially, but if produced in larger quantities (greater than 100) then the original document or source code must be made available to the work’s recipient.
The license was designed for manuals, textbooks, other reference and instructional materials, and documentation which often accompanies GPL software. However, it can be used for any text-based work, regardless of subject matter. The largest project using the license is Wikipedia, a general-purpose encyclopedia. Certain “Grammar Tips” and “Publishing-Related” articles on Compass Rose Horizons have been modified from the following Wikipedia source material:
- “eBook”
- “Bookbinding”
- “Copy Editing”
- “Dangling Modifier”
- “Electronic Publishing”
- “Ghostwriter”
- “Grammar”
- “Offset Printing”
- “Printing”
- “Printing Press”
- “Print on Demand”
- “Proofreading”
- “Spell Checker”
- “Split Infinitive”
- “Style Guide”
- “Typesetting”
Articles Base
Additional “Publishing-Related” articles, as well as several editing and proofreading articles, on Compass Rose Horizons come from ArticlesBase.com. These include:
- How to Promote Your Self-Published e-Book
Article City
A few of our “Publishing-Related” articles on Compass Rose Horizons come from ArticleCity.com. These include:
- Working With a Freelance Editor
Article Rich
A few of our “Publishing-Related” and “Grammar Tips” articles on Compass Rose Horizons come from ArticleRich.com. These include:
- Greengrocer’s Apostrophe
Do You Need a Freelance Editor?
We hope you enjoy the free publishing-related articles we post on Compass Rose Horizons. If you found your way here because you are looking for an editor or proofreader, we can help you. To reach one of our freelance editing and design professionals, e-mail: editor@compassrose.com.
