Services
Line Edit
For early/mid-stage drafts. Irons out wording, sentence structure, inconsistencies and flow by reshaping your story into its most accessible format for a reader or agent.
Hourly rate.
Developmental Edit
For mid/late-stage drafts. Get feedback on your overall story structure, characters, pacing and world building. Are there any questions left unanswered? Any scenes that are unbelievable or in the wrong place? Take your story to its most compelling final form.
Can be combined with proof and line editing.
Hourly rate.
Send me a detailed outline of your plot plan, and I will assess for pacing, reader interest, and commercial desirability. If you don't have your full plot yet, we can work that out together, during a one hour video call in which we can dissect your plan, potential errors and areas for improvement. Includes a 1000 word sample in which I can assess if your narration, style and tone facilitate your plot, as well as offer some general feedback on your writing.
Proofreading
For books that have been through the editorial process and need scanned for errors and consistency. Ensure your book has no glaring typos, grammar mistakes or typesetting issues.
Hourly rate.
Rates
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Proofreading - £15/hr
Line Editing - £28/hr
Developmental - £32/hr
Line + Developmental - £35/hr
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Proofreading - £4/1000 words
Line Editing - £11/1000 words
Developmental - £8/1000 words
Line + Developmental - £14/1000 words
These rates are rough estimates, and will vary depending on which stage of drafting your book is at. They are supplied simply to give indications of total likely costs, rather than as set rates (hourly rate is set, and will reflect final pricing). Furthermore, they are not direct ratios of hourly rates, as many more words can be done in an hour on a proofread than on a line edit, and so on. Instead, they reflect the speed of each type of work and the specialism required.
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Average pricing, can vary based on work needed.
Line Edit - £2/page
Developmental - £2/page
Note: For poetry, developmental covers what can come out, where extra pieces are needed and theme suggestion for these pieces, ordering and titling advice.
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Short stories and novel extracts up to 10000 words are available at the following rates. Enquire directly for extracts of below 1k or over 10k in length.
Developmental and line:
1k - £30
2k - £45
3k - £60
5k - £85
10k - £150
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As a working class creative myself, I am deeply invested in working class representation in the literary field. Both out of my own interest in reading and editing working class stories, and from my own experience of understanding how challenging it can be to fund creative projects as a working class creative, I endeavour to make myself available to and affordable for working class writers.
While I keep my rates below average for literary editors in the UK by working other jobs to sustain myself, I appreciate that this is still out of the realm of possibility for many. If this is you, please reach out to discuss how we can find a way to work together. I will not be insulted, or assume you think my work is not worth the rates, and simply acknowledge that personal creative endeavours are hard to fund for those without sufficient income.
No judgement here, only excitement to work with you.