Services & Rates

2025

Editorial Consultation                                                    

$55/hour (charged per quarter hour)

What you receive:

— Phone or Zoom call or email               

 

Manuscript Evaluation                                               

Fiction or Nonfiction: $.025/word

What you receive:

— Lengthy editorial letter assessing what is working and what needs improvement in your manuscript (no manuscript editing)

— 30-minute phone or Zoom call

 

Developmental Editing                                                           

Fiction: $.04/word

Nonfiction: $.05/word

What you receive:

— Editorial letter

— Manuscript edited in MS Word Track Changes to highlight the issues covered in the letter and other guidance

— 30-minute phone or Zoom call

 

Copyediting                                                                             

Fiction: $.028/word

Nonfiction: $.04/word

What you receive:

— Editorial letter

— Manuscript with copyedits in MS Word Track Changes

 

Proofreading                                                                         

Fiction: $.018/word

Nonfiction: $.03/word

What you receive:

— Manuscript with errors marked in MS Word Track Changes

 

Bundle Packages                           

Two developmental edits of the same manuscript: First round full price, second round 50% off.

(Second round must be within three months of first round.)

Copyediting and proofreading of the same manuscript: Copyediting full price, proofreading 50% off.

  (Proofreading must be within three months of copyediting.)