Wordwyze [books]

About WordWyze

[Colleen]There it was in a published book, with thousands upon thousands of copies in print. It glared at me, ugly, obvious and obviously missed. An error in the text. "…the the…" it read.

Hi, I am Colleen. As an avid reader, I have found spelling and punctuation errors in books or articles, which were supposedly professionally edited. Being thoroughly irritated by this lack of professionalism, I decided to retrain as a proofreader and copy editor, in order to help others (like you!) to produce quality publications!

Since then, I have learned so much! Not the least of which is that I am as fallible as anyone else, and that the Big Publishing Houses use several editors for one book, whereas I am one person, and making errors, or missing something is quite normal. I have had to eat humble pie a few times. But I endeavour to provide high quality work, and I work with my authors to bring about a publication that they are proud to hold in their hands.

I wanted to have a qualification that would be recognized overseas, as this can be a bonus for some overseas clients who can sleep while I work on their manuscript. And as it turned out, the international qualification came at the right price.


Graduated as Proofreader from the College of Media and Publishing Graduated as Copy Editor from the College of Media and Publishing

After researching, I decided to train with the
»College of Media and Publishing in the UK.

  1. 1. The College is accredited with the UK government,
  2. 2. The College is accredited with several other organizations.
This keeps its online learning quality to a high standard.

My husband, Jan helps out with photography and design, and you can find out more about him »here.

Jan & I have been married for nearly 30 years and together we have two adult children. My initial career was in the IT field. After we immigrated, I set aside my professional career to pursue motherhood. Now, the children are grown, my thoughts turned to my passion - reading, and thus, WordWyze came about.

Jesus is first and foremost in my life. My highest priority is to assist fellow Believers to publish their work. In the event that I am too busy with other projects, I will happily refer you to other service providers in my network.