Need Latin American Spanish proofreader for romance novels

Posted 2 days ago

Worldwide

Summary

I’m looking for a native speaker from Latin America (NOT from Spain) to proofread Latin American Spanish translations of my mafia romance novels produced by a new AI translation system. The output quality is high – I just want a human to do the final pass. I have eight novels ready to be proofread right now. The first book is 66,000 words. The other books range from 96,000 to 178,000 words, and the total of all eight books is just under 1 million words. I’m not looking for a “Is this a perfect translation from English?” proofread. I just want you to catch anything that would make a reader in Mexico or Central/South America go “Huh?” (Poor vocabulary choices, grammatical mistakes, sentences where an idiomatic Spanish phrase would work better, etc.) I'm not looking for a rewrite or a re-translation – a light touch is a good thing. Also, I don’t want the translation locked to a specific country like Mexico. I want the vocabulary to be easily understandable for readers throughout Latin America. One exception: the crude/sexual slang leans Mexican, because there's no neutral Latin American option. Everything else should be understandable everywhere. I’m looking for someone whose rate is 0.002-0.008 USD per word. I’m willing to pay more for someone with a history of proofreading romance novels (particularly dark romance) or with experience in neutral Latin American Spanish (español neutro) localization. One warning: the books are mafia romance and deal with dark romance themes. I will supply a Word .docx file. The file you give back to me needs to be a Word .docx with Track Changes enabled so I can see every edit. If you're interested in this job, please let me know... - if you’re a native speaker from Latin America and which country - if you've proofread romance novels before - if not romance, then what fiction genres you've proofread - if you’re comfortable proofreading books with dark romance content and themes - your rate for proofreading per word - your estimated time to turn around the first book (66,000 words) - your estimated time to turn around future books, based on a length of 110,000 words - if you can supply me with a Word .docx with Track Changes enabled As part of the hiring process, I would like you to proofread the first three chapters (3900 words) of the first book so I can evaluate your work. If I ask you to do this, I will pay you for the test at your quoted rate. I need to weed out people who just skim job postings, so please include the word ‘novela’ as the first word in your reply to me. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

  • Less than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • 1-3 months
    Duration
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • Remote Job
  • Ongoing project
    Project Type
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Spanish
Latin American Spanish Accent
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:50+
  • Last viewed by client:yesterday
  • Interviewing:
    26
  • Invites sent:
    54
  • Unanswered invites:
    22
About the client
Member since Oct 14, 2016
  • United States
    Lawrenceville6:30 PM
  • $16K total spent
    48 hires, 41 active
  • 20 hours

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