Fees for Editorial Services


These programs get you going in the right direction. They create a detailed, guided plan to prepare your work for publication, to improve its quality and succeed in getting your best ideas and stories out into the marketplace.

Diagnostic Assessment, Overall Book Manuscript
$250–350
This report offers specific suggestions to improve your manuscript to make it more appealing to agents, publishers, and readers. From your full manuscript, I’ll provide a 3-page report of top-level suggestions. Usually this will highlight 2–3 main issues to address, with any number of minor points to help improve the work.

Detailed Analysis, Chapter by Chapter
$500–700
For this, I will review your manuscript and offer a written summary of suggestions by chapter. Length is usually 1/3- to 1/2-page per chapter. The report will highlight strengths, weaknesses, specific ideas for editorial improvements, and ways to enhance marketability of the work.

Full Editorial / Book Doctor Services
$5–6 per page
Basic fee is $6/page ($5/page for the first 2 clients for each given month), based on a 250-word standard-format page. For this, I’ll go over your complete manuscript (no initial drafts please) in detail to provide detailed suggestions for editorial excellence and marketability.

Fiction: Focus is on on ways to increase tension, stakes, and pay-offs; to address problems of pacing and structure; to hone scene-craft (details of place, character, dialogue, action, etc.); and to build satisfying characters, plot lines, and story development.

Nonfiction: Focus is on issues of clarity, sequencing, what to develop further (or cut) to deliver the information in the most interesting way, and overall reader appeal and good storytelling within your nonfiction structure.

Book Project Development
Call to discuss your project; no charge for initial discussion.
Custom services at affordable rates.

Book & Author Marketing: Special Projects
Call to discuss your project; no charge for initial discussion
Custom services at affordable rates.

LitWave Blog Support
$79-$199
This is a popular program for savvy authors. LitWave offers quick blog and branding support for writers, consultants, and small businesses who wish to grow their online presence in a very cost-effective way.

I can help you start a new blog or improve the effectiveness of your existing blog and other online marketing.

Basic programs start at just $79.