Line Edit Consultation

Service Description

Focuses on enhancing writing style, improving clarity, and ensuring smooth sentence flow, while maintaining the author's voice. These edits are narrow in scope, setting aside the big picture in favor of refining small details to really make the project stand out. The aim here is to polish the work to showcase the author's unique writing style; this involves removing things like redundant or repetitive words and phrases, improving word choice to make prose stand out, and tightening sentences to make writing clear and concise while preserving the author's voice. Suitable for authors aiming for precision in their prose and who have already undergone developmental edits and/or beta-reading. Pricing is based on project word count, and turnaround time requested by client. Average rates run from $0.02 to $0.04 per word, with a rate of $0.05 per word for turnarounds faster than the editor's standard timeline. All rates are based on and in compliance with rates in the EFA chart. All line edits include a free 30 minute initial consultation. Sample edits are available, with samples for manuscripts spanning 1,000-3,000 (based on a 100,000 word text) for $75-$125. Samples for short stories span 100-300 words (based on a 10,000 word text) for $10-$25. All booked editorial services require a 50% deposit to begin, include digital documents: a marked-up manuscript with in-line commentary done in Microsoft Word with track changes, and a separate, PDF document with editorial notes and feedback. Follow-up calls are available after completion to answer questions and discuss feedback, the first one is included in the cost and lasts up to one hour. Subsequent calls may be available based on editor’s discretion, ranging from free to $15/hour.