Editing Pricing and Services
We will work with stories of most subject matters (and if you have a question about what we won't work with, please contact us). We are not here to criticize story ideas, and we will do our best to work with you, not just to bring your work to its full potential, but to make the process of getting there comfortable. Our payment plans work to your schedule, and we believe in fully-open communication every step of the way. Our pricing is WELL below the industry standard, in order to keep editing services a more viable option to those looking to self-publish.
For quotes and questions, please email us at sean.gerace[at]ottercorrect[dot]com.
For quotes and questions, please email us at sean.gerace[at]ottercorrect[dot]com.
As of July 2021, we are no longer accepting visual novel projects for editing. These projects have always been hard to fairly price, because the text often is very repetitive (with whole sections being identical other than a handful of words), and the text is mixed within a jumble of code. These cases both often will lead to us either including all the text in the price, and thus overcharging, or leaving out large sections of text from the pricing that we still need to look over to make sure we're not copy/pasting invalid text and code, and thus undercharging.
We apologize for this inconvenience, and wish you the best of luck finding editorial services elsewhere for your visual novel projects.
We apologize for this inconvenience, and wish you the best of luck finding editorial services elsewhere for your visual novel projects.
Core Services
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Story/Developmental Editing
Price: Between $0.008-$0.012/word Number of Editing Passes: 2 With this service, we will look at the development of your characters, plot, and setting. We will comment, using Microsoft Word's comments feature, on ways the story can be enhanced. This service is great for authors who are completely unsure of their idea and have no idea where to go. Current estimated minimal turnaround time: 3-4 weeks* |
Line/Copyediting*
Price: Between $0.010-$0.015/word Number of Editing Passes: 2 During this service, we will look over the technical aspects of your work, including grammar, punctuation, wording, spelling, and other such issues. With this level, we will not comment on your story at all. This service is good for those who have had some sort of story editing completed already. * due to the time constraints full line-editing requires, the line-editing part of this services is more annotated, and focuses not on optimizing every sentence, but in making sure clarity and flow are maintained. Current estimated minimal turnaround time: 4-6 weeks* |
Full Edit
Price: Between $0.012-$0.020/word Number of Editing Passes: 2-3 This combines both of the other two services, and is our most popular service. This service is great for those who are looking to self-publish, or want to polish their story as much as they can before submitting it for publication. Current estimated minimal turnaround time: 6-8 weeks* |
*All turnaround times are based upon just the first round of edits with an average amount of work on a novel of 80,000 words. Subsequent rounds of edits usually take 2-3 weeks from the time the previous round has been confirmed. The size and complexity of projects may vary these times greatly. Prices may be altered if significant sections of your work are added or completely rewritten after our first round of edits, as those previous edits are no longer valid and have to be redone from scratch. Timeline only applies to projects with consistent payments. Extended payment plans will affect this estimated turnaround time.
Additional Services
Typesetting/Formatting
Price: $0.0035/word (or $0.002/word when combined with an editing service)
Interested in self-publishing, but not interested in shelling out the money for expensive programs to make the presentation look clean? We can help with that! This service helps get your work ready for print or ebook, and for an additional 25% of the cost, we'll get your book ready for the other. We will provide you with the appropriate file types (PDF for print, PDF/epub/mobi for ebook).
This is for basic typesetting only. We'll work with you on picking appropriate fonts and messing with some basic layouts, but anything too decorative or ornate will be excluded.
Price: $0.0035/word (or $0.002/word when combined with an editing service)
Interested in self-publishing, but not interested in shelling out the money for expensive programs to make the presentation look clean? We can help with that! This service helps get your work ready for print or ebook, and for an additional 25% of the cost, we'll get your book ready for the other. We will provide you with the appropriate file types (PDF for print, PDF/epub/mobi for ebook).
This is for basic typesetting only. We'll work with you on picking appropriate fonts and messing with some basic layouts, but anything too decorative or ornate will be excluded.
Short Story Review (NEW)
Price: $0.005/word (add $0.001/word if you want your story formatting into Standard Manuscript Format once you've made your edits)
Want to get your short story checked out before submitting to a market? We can help with that! This service is an annotated version of our story/developmental editing, where we will give some general tips on how to improve your story (which can include, but is not limited to, plot, pacing, potential sensitivity issues, etc.), how your story fits into the theme of the market you're submitting to, and how well-suited your story fits the audience you're writing for. If you have specific questions or concerns with your story you'd like us to look at, we'll also do our best with that!
Please note that this service does not include any copy/line editing.
Price: $0.005/word (add $0.001/word if you want your story formatting into Standard Manuscript Format once you've made your edits)
Want to get your short story checked out before submitting to a market? We can help with that! This service is an annotated version of our story/developmental editing, where we will give some general tips on how to improve your story (which can include, but is not limited to, plot, pacing, potential sensitivity issues, etc.), how your story fits into the theme of the market you're submitting to, and how well-suited your story fits the audience you're writing for. If you have specific questions or concerns with your story you'd like us to look at, we'll also do our best with that!
Please note that this service does not include any copy/line editing.
With all projects, we will invoice via Square. You can pay with a credit card through that system (preferred), or you can pay via PayPal (pay[at]anthroaquatic[dot]com), or CashApp ($Ottercorrect).
