Editorial Services
I offer two types of editorial services for clients with a complete manuscript:
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I will review your complete manuscript as a whole and chapter-by-chapter to provide both general/overall and specific feedback. This includes:
Notes on overall book structure and order of material.
Suggesting locations for subheads within chapters.
Clearly identifying book theme or themes, and ensuring text supports it/them.
Identifying potential missing pieces of text (e.g., resources, foreword).
Developing appropriate questions for beta readers.
Ensuring your tone remains approachable throughout.
Answering any specific questions you pose in advance of delivering the manuscript (e.g., specific areas of transition in places in the manuscript, questions about citations).
Other tasks as you request.
During the manuscript review, our work will be conducted via email and within the manuscript. A status update will be provided weekly via email.
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The manuscript evaluation takes approximately six weeks from delivery for a manuscript up to 50,000 words.
I will send a project questionnaire the week before manuscript delivery that details the project and your goals to enable me to better prepare feedback so your book best serves you.
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$2,000 for up to 50,000 words [$3,000 for manuscripts between 50,000 and 60,000 words]
This fee includes manuscript evaluation, in-manuscript feedback using MS Word’s “Comments” feature, email support, and one 30-minute call to review feedback and/or discuss self-publishing related questions.
Manuscript Evaluation
Expert guidance and evaluation on the structure, content, flow, and voice of your manuscript
Copy Editing
Line editing for grammatical, formatting, continuity errors, and more
Have you ever had to read a sentence three times to understand the point the author was trying to make? Or found yourself cringing about too many typos in a book? Readers can’t connect with even the most inspirational and insightful books if they’re riddled with errors and unclear text.
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Here’s what I’m looking for during a copy edit:
Grammar, spelling, and mechanical issues
Consistency
Tone
Clarity of message
Redundancy of words/phrases as well as ideas
When you book my copyediting services, you get the whole enchilada. I’ll break out my magnifying glass and go through your manuscript line by line, looking for grammar, spelling, consistency, word choice, and jargon.
If you use abbreviations in your work, I’ll make sure they’re defined at the beginning of each chapter. You don’t want your readers to have to rush to Google or search for an asterisk because you used a TLA* they weren’t familiar with.
I’ll also make sure that your verb tenses are consistent and that you switch between the past tense and the perfect tense at the right moment. And all those times you stressed about capitalization, punctuation, and mechanics? Gone. I take care of those as well. (You’re welcome.)
*Three-letter acronym. (See what I mean? Don’t make your readers look for the asterisk. Your book isn’t a game of hide-and-seek.)
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Time line and investment vary by project and are based on multiple factors. Generally, for a 40,000-word book you can expect the entire copy editing process to take approximately six to eight weeks and cost between $2,000 and $4,000.