Services:

• Editing
• Research
• Proofreading

Contact The Word Boffin

By E-mail:
wordboffin@aol.com

By Telephone (UK):
01252 678671
By Telephone (USA):
011 44 01252 678671

By Mail:

Mary Ellen Foley
1 Petworth Villas
185 Guildford Road
Normandy, by Ash
Surrey
GU12 6DT
UK

What's a Boffin, Anyway?

"Boffin" is British slang for the technical wizards in the back room, who make the gizmos work!

Turn your prose over to the Word Boffin, for behind-the-scenes polishing and honing, or turn to the Word Boffin to do the research, leaving you time to write.
 

Client List

Diane Middlebrook (San Francisco CA)

“Mary Ellen has a flair for editing a manuscript. I could also be confident that she approached the research questions the way I would have done myself. She provided just the kind of information I was looking for.”

Titles:

• Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton
• Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, A Marriage

Betje Black Klier  (Austin, TX)

Titles:

• Tales of the Sabine Borderlands: Early Louisiana and Texas Fiction by Theodore Pavie
• Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Theodore Pavie to Louisiana and Texas, 1829-1830, Including Portions of His Souvenirs Atlantiques

Ernest W. Adams (Guildford, Surrey UK)

“Mary Ellen improved my wording, flagged ambiguities, and caught errors that even my publishers missed. She edited my books both rapidly and accurately.”

Titles:

• Fundamentals of Game Design
• Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design
• Break Into the Game Industry