Ghostwriting
A ghostwriter is hired when you have a story to tell and need that story written by a pro to catch the reader’s attention. Officially, the material is credited to you as the author. The ghost writer’s work can be acknowledged, but it’s not wrong to claim that you wrote the book. Depending on the topic and length of the book, the average completion time is six months.
The cost ranges from $5,000 to 50,000 depending on the scope of the project.
Developmental editing
Developmental Editors are concerned with the structure and content of your book. If your manuscript lacks focus, your DE will help you find the right direction. Development editing also takes care of problems of inconsistent tone or an unclear audience. An experienced DE guides an author in conceiving the topic, planning the overall structure, and developing an outline.
Copyediting
Copy editors focus on the language – word choice, grammar, punctuation, and style. They check for proper alignment and spacing of the text. An experienced CE will note awkward transitions and redundancies. We’ll alert you if some part of the text might be perceived as biased language or stereotyping.
Noting any place where the point of view shifts without a clear sense of who is telling the story.
Marking improper formatting of dialogue and checking the balance of dialogue vs. action/exposition/internal thought.
Making the author aware of places where he/she is “telling” rather than showing what the characters are doing and thinking.
$5 per 250-word page.
Book Formatting
We create proper margins for Amazon/Kindle or your printer’s specifications, check alignment and spacing of text, set section breaks, and add headers, footers, and page numbers in your Word document. Using styles, we set your fonts for body text, headings, and numbers to ensure that alphabetized, bulleted, and numbered lists are formatted consistently throughout your book. You will have a Word version that you can amend and a PDF that can be used as an e-book.
$5 per 250-word page.
Proofreading
Proofreaders compare the proofs—printed versions of the manuscript, which include all the formatting, page numbers, headers, etc. that will be included in the final edition—with the edited copy to make sure that no errors have been introduced by the formatting or printing.
$2.50 per 250-word page