Why hire a professional editor?

A professional editor works through your manuscript from a number of different perspectives, all focused on clarifying, refining, and readying your work for publishing. Bringing in a professional editor helps you see the forest through trees. Let’s work together to get your draft in shape.

A simple yet comprehensive proofread of your manuscript. Proofreading includes catching and correcting typos, grammatical errors, POV, tense, and other formatting oddities that need to be cleaned up.

Rate: $50 flat fee to assess the state of your manuscript; $.015 USD per word for a standard first pass proofread. If you would like a second proofread, $.05 per word.

Copy editing services include checks for technical consistency in spelling, capitalization, font usage, numerals, hyphenatioon, and basic fact-checking following your chosen citation/style guide. I work with Chicago, MLA, and APA.

Rate: $50 flat fee to assess the state of your manuscript; $.018 USD per word for one pass of your entire manuscript.

Line editing provides creative feedback on your manuscript. Using in line editing, my focus will be on word choice— assessing each sentences and providing suggestions to help you achieve your intended impact. I’ll also make suggestions to clarify meaning, eliminate jargon, and help your writing sound its best so that your reader experiences your story well.

Rate: $50 flat fee to assess the state of your manuscript; $.022 USD per word for one pass of your entire manuscript.

Developmental edits focus on structure, flow, completeness, and overall quality. From this edit, I’ll send you a memo (minimum 1 page) that summarizes my key thoughts, areas of concern, and suggestions for where to take the next draft. I’ll also include some high-level markups via tracked changes related to structural concerns or questions I have as I read.

Rate: $50 flat fee to assess the state of your manuscript; $.023 per word for one pass of your entire manuscript. If you’d like a second round of developmental editing, $.013 per word.

An editorial assessment is when an editor reads your manuscript and provides a detailed report with thoughts, concerns, and ideas about how to improve your manuscript. This assessment differs from a developmental edit in that you will only receive a memo containing a summary of my key thoughts, areas of concern, and suggestions for where to take the next draft.
I recommend this option if your biggest concern regarding your manuscript is timing, pacing, or plot points. This is also a great option to get a fresh set of eyes on your manuscript.

Rate: $.010 USD per word for one pass of your entire manuscript.

send me an email with:

your books purpose and genre
total word count
timeframe for when you would like to receive feedback
what service you wish to have my help with

Typically, I take 1-2 weeks per 45K words, per editing round.

If you’d like a quote, I can send one within 48-72 hours. Variables that might affect my response time include being offline or OOO.

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If this process is new for you or you just have some additional questions up top, I’m happy to answer them via email!