Editing Pricing and Services
We will work with stories of any subject matter. We are not here to criticize 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. For quotes and questions, please email us at editors[at]anthroaquatic[dot]com.
Core Services
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Story Editing
Price: Between $0.004-$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: 1.5 months* |
Line/Copyediting*
Price: Between $0.005-$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: 1.75 month* |
Full Edit
Price: Between $0.008-$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: 2.5 months* |
*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sections of your work are added or completely rewritten after our first round of edits, as those previous edits are no longer valid and have to be redone from scratch.
Additional Services
Typesetting/Formatting
Price: Between $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 InDesign files for you, as well as other 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. For a print book sample, check out this prologue sample from one of Goal Publications's recent titles, Symphony of Shifting Tides. A PDF ebook sample will be pretty identical to this, but with the text centered on the page.
Price: Between $0.0035/word (or $0.002/word when combined with an editing service)
Interested in self-publishing, but not interested in shelling out the money for expensive programs to make the presentation look clean? We can help with that! This service helps get your work ready for print or ebook, and for an additional 25% of the cost, we'll get your book ready for the other. We will provide InDesign files for you, as well as other appropriate file types (PDF for print, PDF/epub/mobi for ebook).
This is for basic typesetting only. We'll work with you on picking appropriate fonts and messing with some basic layouts, but anything too decorative or ornate will be excluded. For a print book sample, check out this prologue sample from one of Goal Publications's recent titles, Symphony of Shifting Tides. A PDF ebook sample will be pretty identical to this, but with the text centered on the page.
With all projects, we will invoice via Square. You can pay with a credit card through that system (preferred), or you can pay via PayPal (pay[at]anthroaquatic[dot]com), or Square Cash ($Ottercorrect).
