Assessment of your manuscript that defines the most pressing issues to focus on during your revisions. This is a preliminary form of developmental edit, which will work well as a discounted first step if you have a messy manuscript not quite ready for a full developmental edit at full price, or if you’re a first-time author.

The evaluation consists of an editorial letter only (a full developmental edit would also include comments directly into the manuscript) to highlight the strengths of your draft and the areas that need the most work.

Just like the full dev edit, we’ll look at the big picture (plot, character arcs and development, worldbuilding, overall pacing, etc.). However, we won’t cover all these topics; we’ll only focus on the couple of areas that would level up your manuscript the most.

After cleaning up these aspects, your manuscript should be ready for a more in-depth developmental edit.

This edit aims to refine your narrative elements on the macro scale: structure, character development, plot, tension, stakes, genre elements, setting, etc. You’ll get comments directly on the manuscript and an editorial letter that streamlines the suggested direction for your revisions and the tools to help you along the way.

The line edit focuses on the paragraph and sentence level to polish your prose. Suggested edits will be made directly into the manuscript. They will be tracked by Word’s track changes feature to allow you to keep your agency as the author and to accept and reject the edits.

You’ll also find comments along the margin to either explain a change or ask for your input. I’ll also provide an editorial letter to explain the general direction of the edits I made.

While I may correct the occasional typo or grammar error, this is not a comprehensive copy edit that will ensure your manuscript is pristine on the mechanical level. The edit focuses on the reader’s experience and your artistry (style, voice, flow).

Feedback on the manuscript from the point of view of a reader (not an editorial assessment). This includes either comments along the manuscript, or a separate reader report. You may also choose to get a package with both.

Comments focus on giving reactions to scenes and details as I read, while the report gives a more general overview of my impressions after reading.

You can also combine a beta read (comments on the manuscript only) with a developmental evaluation if you need more guidance, with both reader and editorial feedback. In this package, the rate for the beta read would be halved.

If you have a questionnaire prepared for your beta readers, we can discuss a custom package and rate.

A sensitivity read aims to identify harmful tropes and depictions of marginalised communities so your story can do them justice. You’ll receive a report with the potential issues I detected, along with some advice on how to proceed.

My areas of expertise are LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent representation. I also have general sensitivity knowledge; however, it’s usually best to reach out to sensitivity readers specialised in the marginalised group(s) your character(s) belong to so you can get much more precise feedback.

Sensitivity reading is all about balance and context. I don’t aim to convince you to sanitise your writing, but instead to help you give honest portrayals of three-dimensional characters who don’t perpetuate real world harm through stereotypes and misinformation.

If you need extra help on an element in your manuscript (a character arc, a scene or event, worldbuilding, etc.), I can offer targeted consulting sessions and feedback.

Similarly, if you’re struggling with a particular aspect of the writing craft (POV, structure, pacing, etc.), we can do a one-on-one workshop using your own writing to help you understand both the theory and how to apply it.

General rate: $0.015 per word

Discounted rate: $0.01 per word

Short stories: since the word ratio doesn’t account for the time spent on the editorial letter, there’s an additional fee of $50 for stories under 15,000 words.

General rate: $0.03 per word

Discounted rate: $0.025 per word

Short stories: since the word ratio doesn’t account for the time spent on the editorial letter, there’s an additional fee of $100 for stories under 15,000 words.

General rate: $0.027 per word

Discounted rate: $0.023 per word

Comments along the manuscript: $0.004 per word (short story under 20,000 words: additional fee of $15)

Reader report: $0.005 per word (short story under 20,000 words: additional fee of $20)

Comments and report package: $0.008 per word (short story under 20,000 words: additional fee of $30)

Comments and developmental evaluation package: $0.017 per word (short story under 15,000 words: additional fee of $65)

$0.01 per word

Prices vary depending on the preparation required and the length of the session. One hour is usually a good amount of time for both consulting and workshops.

If you’ve done a beta read or developmental evaluation with me a few weeks prior to the consulting, I’ll already be familiar with your story, which can help decrease preparation costs when you need help with big picture elements such as character arcs. In that case, a session would typically be around $80.

If you want to work on pacing and have a scene you’re particularly concerned with that we can use as an example, I’ll need to read the scene so I can focus my feedback on your writing and not just generalisations. A workshop for a scene under 3000 words would typically be around $80.