Editing Packages
Offering you different options for payment
What does a package involve?
Our packages are basically a monthly subscription.
Pick a package based on what you can afford, how quickly you need your book editing and how many words you would like to send every month (and how many words you want returning every month with our edits/suggestions/questions).
After an initial £10 deposit, we edit and return, then you pay at the end of 4 weeks.
Then we do the same the next month.
What is the average cost of editing?
You are unlikely to find a good editor who will edit your work for much less than £10 for a 1000 words. Editors normally quote per word so £0.01 per word or if you are lucky £0.008 per word. That`s $11 (USA) $18 (Australian).
Developmental/copy editing is usually more expensive than this because of the extra work that it is included.
Our packages can work out better for writers because they are monthly subscriptions.
Other advantages of our packages:
Helps a coaching relationship as we get to know you over time
We can spot challenges earlier on and you have plenty of time to consider them rather than racing against the clock at the end of the process
We come back to your manuscript fresh
You get chapters returned individually, so there is excitement rather than you feeling overwhelmed.
The four packages
Slowly does it
£25 per month up to 5,000 words
Feeling brave
£35 per month up to 7,000 words
Confidently pushing forward
£50 per month up to 11,000 words
We`ve got this
£75 per month up to 16,000 words
What we do as part of your edit?
We combine a developmental approach with copyediting:
Look at the structure of the story
How chapters run together
Check or question research, forward additional research that we have done
Spelling, grammar, punctuation
Repetition of words
Factual errors
Mark up areas that are unclear in their meaning
Question whether your characters would really say or do that
All our ‘edits’ are suggestions (or questions), you can ignore them, take them on board or a mix of the two. This is your story, your voice, your passion.
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What's in it for us?
Packages work for Words On The Street as they allows flexibility and we are not tied down to tight deadlines. It also means our work is even more interesting as within one week there may be 4 or 5 authors' work being edited. A win win situation.
PLEASE NOTE - THESE PACKAGES DO NOT WORK FOR WRITERS IN A HURRY