Services and Rates
I specialize in nonfiction and creative nonfiction editing, coaching, and manuscript assessment.
FREE 30-minute phone chat or Zoom meeting. Contact me!
Wherever you are on your writing journey, I'll be there with you.
Writing Coach
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One-on-one personal coaching.
My primary goal is to guide and support you to a completed first-draft manuscript.
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Help you identify the most suitable and marketable theme for your manuscript (nonfiction and memoir).
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Help you stay focused on your theme and target audience (nonfiction and memoir).
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Help you outline, plan, and schedule next steps (nonfiction and memoir).
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Help you choose subjects and/or stories that offer evidence in support of your theme (nonfiction and memoir).
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Serve as an accountability partner (everyone).
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Offer storytelling writing skills development (memoir primarily).
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$100/hour for billable services, which include:
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Attending Zoom meetings
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Developing outlines and schedules
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Reviewing and critiquing submitted writing
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Researching and providing writing resources, strategies, and instruction
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Manuscript Assessment
Overall Analysis
Read manuscript and write detailed report.
$300 for a partial manuscript evaluation (up to 25 double-spaced pages), $1000 for a full manuscript up to 60,000 words. For manuscripts longer than 60K, it is $200 for each additional 10,000 words.
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With a manuscript assessment, there is no editing. Instead, I provide a detailed report. Since I work in nonfiction, prior to the assessment I will need to know your answers to these questions: Who is your audience? What is your purpose? What promise does your manuscript make to the reader?
I will tell you what works and what doesn't, such as:
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Is a clear theme (argument) maintained consistently throughout?
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Have you fulfilled your promise to the reader?
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Is the subject matter thoroughly and accurately explored?
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Are the style, tone, and approach appropriate to each of the above?
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For memoir, what is the overall quality of the storytelling, including plot, characters, description, setting, and dialogue?
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What level of editing needs to be done (see below)?
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Editorial Services
Developmental Edit
Shaping Stage
$75/hour
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You must have a completed first- or second-draft manuscript. This is an organizational and structural editing stage. I might suggest moving chapters around, as well as large chunks of text within a chapter. I work with the writer to suggest how to plug holes in the material. For nonfiction, I will...
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make the chapter arrangement logical.
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give the text a cohesive flow.
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highlight jargon to be defined or eliminated.
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check to assure the tone and language are appropriate to the purpose and audience.
For memoir, I will...
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comment on plot and character development.
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analyze the effectiveness of the theme.
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comment on scene development and dialogue.
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analyze the suitability of the material based on the ideal audience.
Substantive Edits
Idea Development & Clarity Stage
$65/hour
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A substantive edit addresses the flow of ideas within a chapter or sections within a chapter, the clarity of the ideas and information, and the quality of the prose. I make sure...
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the work has smooth transitions between chapters.
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we fill in missing content.
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the prose is clear and appropriate for the target audience.
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the prose uses an active voice and engages the reader.
Copyedits
Smoothing & Correcting Stage
$60/hour
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These are paragraph- and sentence-level edits. I check the flow. I decide if every paragraph, every sentence, and every word is necessary. I make sure...
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the text is clear, logical, and coherent.
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the structure is consistent throughout and easy to follow.
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the tone is appropriate to the material, audience, and purpose.
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spelling, grammar, and punctuation are consistent and correct.
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repetitious words are removed.
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awkward phrasing is rewritten.
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you've used active voice and you're showing not telling.
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