Services & Rates
The links below provide access to complete information about our services, prices, and turnaround times. Should you have any questions or need guidance in deciding which service or editor best fits your needs, contact Ross Browne at our Tucson office.
Our approach to editing is highly customized. In most cases, the process begins with a diagnostic read-through, with additional steps recommended as needed based on the condition of the work and your own objectives for the project. We can provide as much or as little aid as necessary to help prepare your work for traditional or independent publication and attract readers once the work is published.
Candid, objective, constructive, no-nonsense feedback on what works, what can work better, and how to give your manuscript the best shot at successful traditional or independent publication.
- Introductory Critique: $75
- Manuscript Evaluation: $.01 per word for most manuscripts
Substantive, in-depth guidance on revision to bring out a manuscript’s full potential and prepare for final line or copy editing.
- Manuscript Annotation: $.014 (1.4 cents) per word for most manuscripts
- Reread Report: $.01 – $.014 (1.4 cents) per word
- Manuscript Consultation: $75 per hour
Editing to strengthen voice, polish prose, correct errors, and ready your work for traditional or independent publication.
- Line Editing: $.02 per word and up
- Copy Editing: $.016 (1.6 cents) per word and up
- Proofreading: $.01 per word and up
Craft-focused primers and personalized coaching on writing technique, based on your own manuscript or work-in-progress.
- Self-Editing Primer: $775
- Task Memo: $500 and up
- Fiction Technique Memo: $2200
- Coaching Line Edit: $.04 per word and up
Professional collaboration, ghostwriting, and book planning by experienced authors published in a wide range of genres.
Pricing varies based on the needs of your project. Click below or contact the Tucson office for more information.
Expert guidance on query letters, synopses, book proposals, and submissions outreach to literary agents and publishers.
Query Letter Consultation and Editing: $75 per hour
Logline, Query Letter, Pitch, and Synopsis Writing: $75 and up
Query & Submission Packet Evaluation: $250
Book Proposal Editing & Development: $75 per hour
Strategic support, editing, and promotional copywriting for self-publishing authors using any printer or publishing services provider.
- Line Editing: $.02 per word and up
- Copy Editing: $.016 (1.6 cents) per word and up
- Proofreading: $.01 per word and up
- Book Blurb and Flap Copy Writing: $75 and up
- Publishing Consultation: $75 per hour
Critique, editing, consultation, coaching, and ghostwriting services for screenplays, treatments, adaptations, and more. Pricing starts at $.01 per word. Click below or contact the Tucson office for more information.
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