EDITING SERVICES

Managing Editor: $2000+

Supervises the entire publishing process, from raw manuscript to published book. Manages scheduling, editorial team, production department, and all external vendors. Rate variance factors: subject matter, production timeline, and length/complexity of project.

Basic Copyeditor: $25/hr or $2/pg

Includes spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, table of contents, tables/figures, numbers, and abbreviations, name and gender inconsistencies

Substantive Copyeditor: $30/hr or $3/pg

Basic copyedit functions, content and style, redundancies, wordiness, weak sentence style, organization weakness, lack of focus

Proofreader: $2.50/pg

Comparison of galley or draft manuscript to copyedit – can be done via page prints or physical copy