Editing
If you’ve dreamed of becoming a published author, or you’d like to continue to publish but you are pressed for time to “do it all”, I want you to experience the joy of creation without worrying about the tiny details that can stunt your imagination. Please allow me to take care of details like helping you develop your ideas, revision, editing, proofreading, and even indexing, so you don’t have to worry about anything except the writing and other parts you want to focus on yourself. You can hire me to do one task or several to help you bring your creative fiction or non-fiction to life!
Affordable, Up-front Pricing
I offer a 3-tiered pricing model for my work: 3 cents/word for light copyediting and proofreading; 4 cents/word for correction of grammatical mistakes and rewriting sentences as needed for clarity; and 5 cents/word for developmental editing, including narrative concept assistance, such as plot, point of view, character and thematic development, suggestions to cut or add material, etc. These prices are highly competitive with industry standards which can be as high as 15 cents/word, but I keep my prices affordable to help more writers get published in tough economic times!
Free 30 Minute Consultation
I am happy to offer you a free editorial consultation for 30 minutes to hear about your project. I will also provide editorial comments on the first 5 pages of your work if you’d like to “see” my work before hiring me. I require 50% of the cost of my work as a down payment once we have confirmed your total cost, our schedule/deadline, and 50% to be paid to me on my completion of the work. If you need to make changes, I will go back over those spots once again, and I’ll meet with you over zoom if we need to speak to clarify anything. I edit in MS Word with track changes enabled.
Client Expectations for Editorial Work:
Clients must provide the document to me in a Word document format compatible with MS Word, sent via email. I have a Dell computer, so if your work is done on an Apple computer, you’ll need to convert it.
I work from home, so meetings with clients are not “in person” but over zoom/email/phone.
Documents must be formatted in an easily readable, coherent, cohesive way. I do not do formatting or production work.
—Ex: if you have a book, it should be in one saved file, all chapters included, consistent font size and format, and consistent headings (although the wording of headings can be something we cover if needed).
—Ex: if you have a series of smaller works (poetry, essays, etc.) that I will need to organize into a book, please collate all work into ONE file that can be sent by email and send in a google doc format. If you are adding to that work as we go, just keep everything in one new saved file.
While I am very excited to assist you in preparing the content of your book for publication, I do not have the technical background nor the right software to do production work. This means that if you want to self-publish, either you must do the production work yourself or you must hire someone to do it for you. I can provide you with a reference for production work/cover artist that one of my long-term clients has used who does excellent work for a fair price.
