services

To help those whose incomes have been affected by COVID-19,
I am currently providing a 20% discount on all services.

With my formal training and experience, I have the skills to make your grammar spotless,
your characters compelling, and your plot unforgettable.

For more information about editing rates, see https://www.the-efa.org/rates/.

I provide the following services:

Novels (40,000+ words) and novellas (10,000–40,000 words)

I specialize in historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and romance.

Free sample edit (novel: 1,000 words; novella: 3% of manuscript)
Developmental editing
Substantive editing (line editing)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)
Typesetting (includes free sample for 1,000 words or 3% of manuscript)
Proofreading
Back cover blurbs
- Children’s fiction—flat rate $100
- YA/New Adult fiction—flat rate $115
- Adult fiction—flat rate $125
Kindle eBook conversion—$40
- Reflowable—from $60
- Fixed Layout—from $50
Manuscript evaluation—from $0.003 per word
Query letter review—$50
- Review for query letter plus first 5 pages of manuscript—$80

Short fiction (up to 10,000 words)

Free sample edit (5% of manuscript)
Substantive editing (line editing)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)

Creative nonfiction (7,000+ words)

Free sample edit (3% of manuscript, or 1,000 words for manuscript of 40,000+ words)
Substantive editing (line editing)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)
Typesetting (includes free sample for 1,000 words or 3% of manuscript)
Proofreading
Kindle eBook conversion
- Reflowable—from $60
- Fixed Layout—from $50

Textbooks, dissertations, theses, and academic articles (7,000+ words)

Free sample edit (3% of manuscript, or 1,000 words for manuscript of 40,000+ words)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)
Proofreading
Kindle eBook conversion
- Reflowable—from $60
- Fixed Layout—from $50

Cookbooks

Copy editing
Basic graphic design—from $100
Typesetting
Proofreading
Kindle eBook conversion
- Reflowable—from $60
- Fixed Layout—from $50

Websites and Blogs

Free sample edit (3% of text)
Substantive editing (line editing)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)

Translated documents

Free sample edit (3% of manuscript)
Copy editing (light, medium, or heavy)

Résumés—from $50

To find out more about how these services can benefit you, or for information on pricing and quotes, please contact me.

50% of payment is due in advance.

I will not edit content that contains graphic or explicit sex, profanity, heavy swearwords, or discrimination against any religions, ethnicities, races, nationalities, or sexual orientations.

I retain the right to refuse service if these requirements are not met.