Developmental Editing
I’ll read your manuscript cover to cover and provide guiding advice and keen notes, page by page and paragraph by paragraph, on:
- Compelling Plot
- Structure and Pacing
- Intrigue and Uniqueness
- Flow
- Cohesiveness
- Show, don’t tell
- Worldbuilding without infodumping
- Your Voice
- Character Development
- Stakes and Goals
- Dialogue
I’ll leave you with no doubt about your novel’s bones and a specific, step-by-step game plan for how to flesh it out until it’s a beauty to be reckoned with.
Includes a complementary 40-minute Zoom coaching session.
Rate: $0.04/word
Line Editing
I’ll offer line-by-line, word-by-word, suggestions on
- Clarifying possible confusion
- Rearranging for smoother flow and adding transitions (even full sentence or paragraph transitions)
- Word flow (how it sounds)
- Thought flow (how it feels)
- Trimming redundancy
- Removing telling sentences that are already shown
- Removing unnecessary “fluff” words
- Tightening vocabular—e.g., “ran quickly” will become “sprinted”
- Aiding “show, don’t tell”
- Adding suggested and/or example showing sentences to replace telling sentences
- Dialogue
- Revising to sound more natural
- Eliminating explanatory or expository dialogue
I do all this while paying careful attention to preserving your voice and story, and I track the changes, so you decide and approve the final product. It’ll shine.
Rate: $0.04/word
Copy Editing
I specialize in proofreading, not copyediting, so I will personally connect you with the copyeditor that is the perfect fit for your specific story. You can rest assured that they will weed out:
- Inconsistencies or plot holes
- Grammar, punctuation, or spelling errors
- POV or tense changes
- Inaccuracies
- Debatable word and phrase choices
I trust these editors with my own work, and I am more than excited to share their amazing work with you.
Proofreading
I will hawkeye your manuscript one final time to eliminated those stubborn
- Typos
- Formatting Inconsistencies
Rate: (physical copy) $0.02/word
(PDF copy) +$25