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Fee Rates
Word Tutorial
$25 an hour
What is a Word Tutorial?
This is an in-person tutoring session on any aspect of Microsoft
Word 2003-2007 (PC users only) you would like to learn more about. If you are new to Word but need to get a manuscript
properly formatted for submissions, this might be the right option for you. This tutorial is fully customizable to suit
your particular needs, but you'll definitely learn great tricks for streamlining your writing, editing, and
formatting processes.
Proofreading
$30 an hour
What is proofreading?
Proofreading can also be called a light copy edit and
involves correcting spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors; ensuring the typescript adheres to the publisher's
house style; and standardizing the format of the manuscript.
Copy editing
$35 an hour
What
is copy editing?
The copy editor's
job may be summarized in the 5 Cs: to make the copy clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent. Copy editing
involves correcting spelling, punctuation, grammatical and semantic errors; ensuring the typescript adheres to the publisher's
house style; adding standardized headers, footers, headlines and so on.
—Abridged from Wikipedia.org
Substantive Editing
$36 an hour
What is substantive editing?
Fiction: editing for
clarity, flow, and tension in regard to plot, exposition, character development, dialogue, etc.
Nonfiction:
editing for structural organization, flow, and clarity as well as sentence structure and word choice.
Developmental Editing
$38 an hour
What is developmental editing?
Fiction only: No copy
editing is involved. The purpose of the read-through is to identify any major problems in character, plot, or structure. Read-throughs
are generally performed for those needing a moderate to heavy edit of a project and take place before the copy editing phase.
Book Coaching
$40 an hour
What
is book coaching?
Pure advice with either a story development or marketing focus—or both! This option is for the
budget-conscious writer who could use expert advice with a small price tag. It is also a good fit for the writer who has been
submitting to magazines or publishers but getting nothing but rejections. Touching base with an editor can help you hone your
submission package to make sure you aren't falling prey to common pitfalls and mistakes that keep writers in the slush
pile.
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Editing specialties
* Style manual used: Chicago Manual of Style
FICTION- Query Letters (of any kind)
- Synopses
(of any kind)
- Fantasy
- Historical
- Romance
- Action/Adventure
- Screenplays
NONFICTION:* Will consider editing nonfiction projects on a case-by case
basis. Query us with a description of your project.
If your type of
writing isn't listed, have no fear; Stirling Editing is open to editing many types of writing styles and genres. The above
list is simply a catalogue of our areas of expertise.
NOTE: Before giving your writing to any
editor, it is best to do a complete edit of your own work using whatever skills you may have as an editor in your own right.
This will help you get a clearer picture of what type of editing you need most. In addition, you may be able to identify specific
problem areas you would like an editor to focus on and talk over with you.
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