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 dev edit at full price, or if you are 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.

$0.01 per word

$0.025 per word

$0.02 per word

Comments along the manuscript: $0.0025 per word

Reader report: $0.003 per word

Comments and report package: $0.005 per word

Comments and developmental evaluation package: $0.01125 per word