Book Doctor
For finished or mostly finished manuscripts and if you’ve had a publisher or agent say your manuscript needs some help or you must adjust the word count.
*Rates are calculated by the desired editing: to do a critique or editing and on word count / page count and are influenced by genre, combinations of any of the following in the list, and time constraints. A critique is charged per page / word count, and a light edit is charged by the hour.
Word Count Amendment (fiction and nonfiction)
A skim through the whole manuscript to edit or suggest where to add details / info, etc. or where to cut repeated info, words, or phrases.
- Critique: $3.50 per page / 250 words
- Light Edit: $25 per hour
Manuscript Assessment (fiction and nonfiction)
A read-through of the whole manuscript, providing a detailed summary of overall major issues including weaknesses and strengths and answering any of your questions.
- Critique: $4.25 per page / 250 words
- Light Edit: $30 per hour
Character Assessment (fiction)
A read-through focusing on improving the main character’s backstory, arc, dialogue, and relatability in their strengths, weaknesses, goals, and conflicts. *To do an assessment of more than one character, such as the love interest, would be an additional $4 per page for a critique or $15 per hour for an edit.
- Critique: $5.50 per page / 250 words
- Light Edit: $35 per hour
Correcting (light edit or critique) includes correction to:
- Punctuation
- Grammar
- Verb tenses
Changing (medium edit / content edit) add-on of $1.50 extra per page / $3 extra per hour
- Adverbs / weak verbs into strong action verbs
- Telling into showing
- Passive voice into active voice
Fixing (deepest edit / developmental edit) add-on of $3 extra per page / $5 extra per hour
- Reader sensitivity issues
- Non-genre specific words / terms
- Head-hopping / POV changes
- Tone or mood issues
- Derivative dialogue
- Pacing problems
