Prices

Readthrough Report

I charge a flat fee of $650 for a Readthrough Report for novels up to 75,000 words. A little more, a little less, that's fine but if your novel is considerably longer than that, .

Copyediting

I charge a flat $65 per hour for copyediting, which is simple enough except that unless you know how much I can do in an hour, it tells you nothing about the actual cost of the job. Let's be frank, the amount I can do in an hour depends on how messy or clean the material is to begin with. So, for copyediting, please and tell me how long your book is. I will evaluate it and send you a proposal for the whole job.

Line Editing

I charge the same $65 per hour for line editing as for copyediting. The same caveat applies: and tell me how long your book is. I will evaluate it and send you a proposal for the whole job.

I offer a 10% discount on line editing for manuscripts I have previously done Readthrough Reports on. The idea here is that you use the results of the Readthrough Report to produce an improved draft of your manuscript, which is then faster for me to line edit because it's cleaner and because I'm already familiar with it.

Proposals

Whatever service you're interested in, I’ve found that the best thing to do is for clients to e-mail me so we can talk about their project and their needs, and for me to send a proposal that outlines the services, price, and schedule for their particular project. E-mail me at and tell me how I can help you.

When you contact me, please include the following information:

Your book’s word-count, to the nearest 1,000 words.
Your book’s general category. (fiction, non-fiction, memoir, et cetera).
The service you are interested in.
Any specific questions or concerns you'd like me to address.
Your preferred timeline for the project, if any. If you’re working towards a specific due-date, please tell me up front!
Your name and the name of your book. Knowing who I'm working with and what to call the project helps me track your proposal among others I may be working on.

Not sure what you need?

If you’re not entirely sure what you need, or if you want something a little different than the services I’ve outlined, that’s no problem. I am happy to send you a proposal for jobs with specific requirements or ones that are a little outside the norm.

Free Sample Edit

I also encourage you to shop around. I’m not the only book doctor on the block, although I am good at what I do and am very competitively priced. See who else is out there and what they charge~~, and if you’re still not sure I’m the right guy for your project, send me up to 2,000 words of your best (or worst) material and I’ll do a sample edit on it~~.