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	Writing, from 900 to 90,000+ Words Kindle books, How-to manuals, About Us pages, Blog posts, Ezines, Wikipedia articles, Brochures, Flyers, Ads, Newsletters, Fact Sheets, Company Histories, Catalogues, Website Content Polishing & Publishing Your Writing Editing & proofreading; Layout & design for ebooks, PDFs, print, and the Web; Marketing Research Image research, Historical research, Transcription of historical documents

About VersaQuill and Dianne L. Durante

For 30 years as a writer, researcher, teacher, and lecturer, I’ve tackled the challenge of communicating information - and found delight in seeing people reach that “aha!” moment, when they grasp an idea and its value to them.

My goal is always to write material that’s accurate and effective. Before I sit down to write, I take the time to find out who your target audience is, what message you want to convey, and what goal you want to achieve. Any required research is done thoroughly and fact-checked meticulously. Then I find the right words and ideas, and present them in the right order, with the right flow. I do editing and proofing old school, to exacting standards. In layout and design, I focus on clarity and legibility, not glitz.

I’ve written and lectured on topics that range from American history to veterinary science and from dental veneers to Jan Vermeer. My wide range of experience allows me to ask the kind of questions your potential clients might ask, so that I can focus on conveying the answers in a way they’ll understand.

I take pride in providing material that meets high standards of both style and content—and is delivered on schedule.

Highlights

For details, see Resume.

How-to Guides

• Step-by-Step Kindle Publishing
• VersaQuill Copywriting Workbook
• Instructions for Filemaker, InDesign, Word, and administrative procedures

Description, Research, Analysis

• Descriptions of books for Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books and Martayan Lan Rare Books
• Blog posts evaluating About Us pages for Corporatehistory.net
• Wikipedia articles for StudioEIS, Harry McPherson, Zenos Frudakis, Marian Calabro
• Internationalism, a series of short essays on American foreign policy since World War II

Images

• Image research for an Android app version of Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide (release date May 2013)
• Thousands of photographs of outdoor sculptures in New York for Forgotten Delights, and of architecture in New York and Chicago (for New York and Chicago Upward Glance screensavers)

Layout & Design

• Cover design and ebook layout for From Portraits to Puddles: New York Memorials from the Civil War to the World Trade Center Memorial (Reflecting Absence) and 7 other Kindle ebooks
• Catalogue layouts for Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books
• Image research, layout, cover design, and production management for a book issued by an independent press at Duke University

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The elephant in the room: Why pay me to write for you?

If the thought of facing a blank page, grinding out a first draft, editing and proofing versions for hours on end thrills your soul ... then I hail you as a kindred spirit. If it doesn’t, why not pay pay me to do it for you? Writing persuasively is as much a skill as computer programming, auto repair, or cooking. It makes sense for you to focus on the job you do best, and pay a specialist to tell potential customers about the quality of your work or services.

Let's let Bernini’s charming elephant lumber out of the room and back to Rome, where he belongs. Click here to return to the top of the page, where you can read about my qualifications and experience as a writer.

Gianlorenzo Bernini, base of Elephant and Obelisk, 1667. Rome, Piazza della Minerva.

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