We’re here to prepare you for publishing.
Being a writer is often overwhelming and lonely, which is why we are here to help you reach your goals of becoming published through our editing services.
We have over 10 years of combined editing experience and providing detailed, motivating feedback to writers. In short, we have spent a lot of time helping others refine their stories and ideas. Whether you’re writing your debut novel or your tenth, building a website, or composing an essay for publication, we want readers to see your writing style shine.
We Help Bring Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads to Life
We have a special fondness for sci-fi and fantasy, but we edit novels, short stories, memoirs, self-help books, resumes, essays, and web content. As life-long readers, we can give detailed, friendly, and motivating feedback that will help polish your work and thrill your future readers.
Ask Us About Our Services & Discounts
Enough talk about us, we’d like to get to know you and your current WIP. Below is a look at the various editing services we provide. If you’d like to get in touch with us about a freelance project, please use the form below.
We also give a 10% off our editing services to anyone who subscribes to our email list. If you’d like to take advantage of this offer, click here to sign up. All you have to do is mention that you’re a subscriber and we’ll figure the discount into the total price.
You can click this button above to set up a quick Zoom call to compare your options and determine which one is best for your manuscript.
Package #1: Proofreading $4/page
Are you preparing to publish your book? Proofreading is the last look at grammar and spelling before, during, or after the formatting phase. At this point, you’ve already addressed all bigger changes—I will only fix minor typos.
- We use Track Changes via Microsoft Word or Google Docs
- We can edit in American English, Canadian English, and British English.
- We lean towards rules found in the Chicago Manual of Style—but can switch to whichever style guide you prefer.
- We consider one page to equate to 250 words—the industry standard.
Package #2: Copy & Substantive Editing $7/page
This service focuses on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and minor paragraph flow errors. This package is ideal if you’ve finished your first or second draft.
- We use Track Changes via Microsoft Word or Google Docs
- We can edit in American English, Canadian English, and British English.
- We lean towards rules found in the Chicago Manual of Style—but can switch to whichever style guide you prefer.
- We consider one page to equate to 250 words—the industry standard.
Package #3: Developmental Editing $50/hour
This package is for providing story-building insight chapter-by-chapter in an analysis. This includes feedback on just the strength of the characters, plot, pacing, voice, and more.
- We will make editing suggestions based on your genre and target audience. The writer must provide a short list of problems they’d like for us to focus on.
- Depending on the writer’s preferences, we can provide all feedback in one master document at the end or quick updates after we finish each chapter.
- The delivery of feedback is up for negotiation. The writer must choose if they prefer email or social media to exchange feedback.
Package #4: Manuscript Critique $50–$100
Are you ready to pitch a novel to a literary agent or you’re preparing to self publish? This package is ideal if you’d like a second opinion on the overall state of your manuscript.
- We can provide a brief analysis of your novel. We will address our thoughts as the reader on how your novel caters to your target audience and genre.
- We can provide a brief analysis of how the writer can market their book. This is ideal for self-publishing authors.
- This is ideal as a soft developmental editing service. If you’d like deeper analysis, then you can opt for Package #3.
- After the book’s release date, we can provide an honest review on Amazon and Goodreads.
- Longer manuscripts (60k+ words) will be invoiced at $100 to compensate for extra time.
Package #5: Author Coaching $50/hour
When it comes to publishing, a lot of it is “you don’t know what you don’t know.” This is an opportunity to chat in person or over Zoom about book publishing. Maybe the draft isn’t even done and you need some extra encouragement. Or maybe you’ve been published for a while and want to move the needle or meet some goals. And then…there’s marketing. Who else forgot to go to business school? We can talk about how to reach your goals with the time and resources that you have.
- Whitney has 10+ years of professional experience in writing, editing, publishing, and marketing books. If you’re stuck or would like an accountability partner, this package is for you.
- Includes 60 minutes of conversation focused on your author goals.
- Whitney will provide research, networking, industry knowledge, and personal experience.
- When possible, Whitney will check in at a later time about those goals or questions.
- We cannot guarantee that this hour or following the advice 100% will create automatic change or success but we will certainly try.
Ready to get started? We can’t wait to see where your book takes you.
Fill out the form below. It helps to answer the following questions:
- What is your target audience/genre?
- What is your word count or page count?
- Do you have a specific deadline for us to meet?
- What is the purpose/goal of the manuscript? What do you hope to share with your audience?
- Should we pay extra attention to any specific requests?
- After looking at our prices, do you have any questions about the total price of our services?
Reviews
“Whitney helped me with two short projects written for children, and she was very pleasant to work with. She has an eye for detail, helping me with small grammar errors as well as insights about adding scenes that would enhance my story. Her turnaround time was extremely quick, which I really appreciated when on a deadline!”
Brittany Olsen
“Whitney did a copy-edit on my third novel, Checkmate. She was a pleasure to work with, and helped me give my novel that final polish that it needed before publication. Put her on your list for editors that help your work shine!”
Angelika Offenwanger
“Whitney was great to work with. The whole experience was professional, yet flexible. Helpful, yet kind. My manuscript improved so much through Whitney’s guidance that I received my first book deal!”
Jessica Thompson
“Working with Whitney was a breath of fresh air! I enjoyed every minute of my experience with bringing my book to life! Whitney not only did an exceptional job, she is also a very kind, patient, and I hope to continue to do business in the future!”
Tori Nix