What kinds of editing do you do?
What genres do you specialize in?
- Fiction: historical, dystopian, sci-fi and fantasy, contemporary & literary
- Nonfiction: memoir, travel writing and creative nonfiction
- Localization: If you're an author in the UK looking to prepare your novel for a US-audience, I can help.
What are the industry standards for my manuscript?
- The industry standard for one page is 250 words, double-spaced, in 12-point font and with one-inch margins.
- Please apply the Word Style Heading 1 to all of your chapter titles before sending me the project.
How do we work together?
- Tell me about your project: genre, word count, deadlines, publishing plans etc., using either the contact page or via email.
- For a sample edit, I need a Word document of at least 1,000 words and a short synopsis of your story.
- I’ll do a sample edit and get back to you with an evaluation plus time and cost estimates.
- After we decide to move ahead together, I'll help you through each step of the editorial process.
How much does it cost?
Have a look at how much editing costs:
- Pricing and costs
- *The top tip I can give to reduce the cost of editing is to get one or two beta readers to give you feedback before you hire a professional.
What factors affect the cost of editing?
Every project is different and the fee depends on several factors:
What type of editing is required?
How complex is the project?
Has the manuscript been read by other people and revised accordingly?
Has the document been properly formatted?
What type of editing is required?
- Developmental editing is a very demanding, in-depth service, so it's more expensive than proofreading.
How complex is the project?
- A 100,000 word epic fantasy with multiple points of view is going to take longer to edit than a 60,000 word memoir.
Has the manuscript been read by other people and revised accordingly?
- If I'm the first person to see your manuscript, it's going to be expensive. It's worth it to find beta readers before getting a professional edit.
Has the document been properly formatted?
- Learn the basics of applying Word Styles to your document, and that'll save one to two hours of editing time!
When can we start?
- Plan ahead! I'm usually booked two or three months in advance. So get in touch a few monthes before you're finished and book a space. I want to help you meet your publishing deadlines.
- Projects are scheduled once a 30% deposit has been made.
What's the fine print?
- Before we work together, I'll send you an editorial work agreement that spells out all the step, the estimated time frame, and costs. We won't start until we're both comfortable!
- I work on a Mac and use MS Word and Track Changes.
- The style guides I use include The Chicago Manual of Style and New Hart’s Rules.
- The standard dictionaries I use are Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged and the Oxford English Dictionary.
Where in the world are you?
- I’m living the dream in London, UK, and I’m happy to work with you wherever you are.
- Authors I’ve worked with live in the UK, the US, the UAE, Thailand, the Netherlands, Japan, and Turkey.
What editing associations do you belong to?
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
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The Editorial Freelancers Association
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The Society for Editing
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What other associations do you belong to?
BookMachine: The Hub for Publishing Professionals
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The Society of Young Publishers
Mentorship programme 2021
Committee member 2020
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The Historical Novel Society
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