Services & Rates
The links below provide access to complete information about all our services, prices, and turnaround time. Ross Browne is in charge of client services and is easily reached in the Tucson office if you have questions or need guidance in deciding which service or editor is the best fit for your needs.
Our approach to editing is highly customized. In most cases, the process begins with a diagnostic read-through and goes on from there based on the condition of the work, the needs of the manuscript or screenplay, and your own objectives for the project. But we understand that a full editorial course isn’t always needed, and we can provide much or as little help as you need to ready your work for submission to literary agents and publishers or for direct publication.
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: $.008 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 here 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
Query & Submission Packet Evaluation: $250
Book Proposal Editing & Development: $75 per hour
Primers, planning support, and copy editing for self-publishing authors using any printer or publishing services provider. Click here for more information.
Critique, editing, consultation, coaching, and ghostwriting services for screenplays, treatments, adaptations, and more. Pricing starts at $.01 per word. Click here for more information.
“One basic rule that applies is: it’s not the writer who decides whether a character is cool; the reader makes that decision. If a writer tries to force things—or lead the witness, as it were—the result is an embarrassing failure.” Lee Child