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.)