Editorial Services
Print-Ready Polish
$350 (up to 80 pages)
+$65 (for each additional 20 pages)
Includes:
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A thorough cross-check of grammar
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Typo corrections
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Standard style guide consistency (such as quotation formats and italics in credits)
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Alignment checks ensuring the text maps cleanly to your final layout files.
Structural Editing
Day Rate: $400, or
Half-Day Rate: $200
An Editorial Intensive Perfect for Poetry Chapbooks
or Smaller Prose Projects
Includes:
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6-8 hours (Day) or 3-4 hours (Half-Day) of focused attention on your manuscript
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½ hour Focus Call in the morning
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½ hour Handoff Call at the end of the day
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You receive: comprehensive line-level formatting feedback
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Sequence tuning
The Collection Architect
$950
(+ $150 per additional 20 pages of poetry or 6,000 words of prose)
Designed for full-length poetry manuscripts (up to 80 pages) or standard prose manuscripts (up to 25,000 words).
A complete macro-level structural transformation delivered in two clear phases:
• Phase 1: A comprehensive written blueprint analyzing your thematic cohesion, structural pacing, and ordering.
• Phase 2: A 90-minute live digital strategy mapping session followed by exact inline manuscript annotations to refine your structure.
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