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  • Rates

    My minimum charge is $75, or one hour of work, and I offer a free subscription to The Art & Craft of Fiction Lab to each new client.

    See Copy, Line, and Developmental Editing Explained for an explanation of the different types of editing: Copy, Line, and Developmental Editing.

    See my Editing Specials for a complete list of the options I offer.

    • Developmental Editing: $.04/word ($10/page)

      This is a series of Developmental Editing letters and a discussion over email. Choose this option if you feel fairly sure of your writing skills and voice, but you want your plot professionally polished and your characters fully-developed.

      For an average manuscript of 72,000 words, this comes to approximately $2,900, around 40 hours.

    • Copy and Line Editing: $.06/word ($15/page)

      This is Copy and Line Editing in-line. Choose this option if you feel fairly sure of your plotting and characterization skills, but you want your voice professionally polished.

      For an average manuscript of 72,000 words this comes to approximately $4,300, around 60 hours.

    • Copy, Line, and Developmental Editing: $.10/word ($25/page)

      This includes Copy and Line Editing in-line, Developmental Editing letters, and a discussion over email. Choose this option if you want your book to be the very best it can possibly be.

      For an average manuscript of 72,000 words, this comes to approximately $7,200, around 100 hours.

    I do offer special rates to original clients as of October 1, 2009, and old and current clients as of September 1, 2011. If that’s you, contact me for details.

    Payment

    You pay by check—I send you my PO box address when we make the arrangements. Or, if you’d rather, you can go through PayPal. My account is gotheca@mcn.org.

    Right now I’m scheduling new clients up to 8 weeks out, so as soon as I receive your payment I can reserve your spot on my calendar.

    Please feel free to drop me a line to discuss an edit of your manuscript anytime.

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4 Responses to “Rates”

  1. Clarissa Draper said on August 18th, 2010 at 8:19 pm

    Hello, Victoria. I would love to have you edit my manuscript. However, I’m a writer and I’m poor. Is it possible to pay in chunks?

    I write mysteries. My current manuscript it 90,000 words and I have self edited it and have had readers and reviewers go through it. What do you charge?

    Thank you.

    Clarissa

  2. Victoria said on August 19th, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    Hi Clarissa!

    The short answer is, “Yes.”

    I’ll send you email with the long answer.

  3. Athena Hernandez said on September 20th, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    Hi Victoria: I stumbled upon your site via a link from a twitter post and I’m very excited. I write children’s literature, specifically picture books. I am currently working on a series where I’ve written (and rewritten again and again) one story and am finishing up a second. I also have another story that I’ve written in rhyming prose. They are each less than 1000 words. Do you edit picture book stories? I sure hope so…

    –Athena

  4. Victoria said on September 20th, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    Hi Athena!

    Yes, I do. I’ll send you email.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.