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 Pricing
I offer a 3-tiered pricing model for my work: 3 cents per word for light copy editing and proofreading; 4 cents per word for correction of grammatical mistakes and rewriting sentences as needed for clarity; and 5 cents per word for developmental editing, which includes narrative concept assistance, such as plot, point of view, character development, thematic development, suggesting cutting material or adding passages/chapters, etc. These prices are competitive with industry standards, and you get a lot for the price because I am very meticulous in my work.
Free 30 Minute Consultation
Please use my contact form below to reach me to describe your project. 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 to help you make a decision to hire me. I require 50% of the cost of my work as a down payment once we have confirmed a work schedule and deadline, and 50% to be paid to me on my completion of the work. I will allow for up to a 2 hour virtual meeting after I have returned the work to you if you need clarification of my suggestions. I edit in google docs, so you will see the edits tracked. If you require additional work completed by me once I have fulfilled the work of our initial agreement, I will negotiate with you regarding additional charges based on what work you would like me to complete. (Ex: after you make changes, if I reread for a further round of minor corrections, there would be an additional “per word” price quoted or hourly rate quoted).
Client Expectations for Editorial Work:
Clients must provide the document to me in a google doc file format, by email or sharing. NO FLASH DRIVES.
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 heading.
—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. I am billing you for my time spent editing, not reformatting.
Clients must choose only ONE of two ways to receive their edited work: one method is by my using the “suggesting” editing feature in google docs. This creates corrections in green all through the document itself, as well as a running comment section to the right of the document where any change I make is noted, and clients must read the comment and click to accept or reject the suggestion. The other way is to have me make all of the changes directly onto the document, and NO comments are provided back to the client in a review pane. Clients cannot have it both ways. These are two distinctly different styles of editing and I can’t flip a switch at the end of one process and turn it into the other. If I were to do both, I would need to edit the document entirely TWICE. So please consider which method you want that is best for your purposes, and choose wisely.
I do not do production work for books or other documents. I am very excited to assist you in preparing the content of your book for publication, but 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 and for a cover artist, but I cannot be hired (nor expected) to include production tasks as these are not part my job.
