Our Process
Thank you for your interest in us! If you're looking for how to hire us and what to expect from our process, look no further.
1. Send an email to sean.gerace[at]ottercorrect[dot]com. Whether you have a project ready to submit or if you are just looking for more information, we'd love to hear from you! In your email, please state the following:
• What genre and type of writing is this? (Ex. Medieval Fantasy Novel)
• What is the story about? Give us a few sentences describing the main idea.
• Is there a specific deadline? (Please note: a short deadline may impact pricing, and some deadlines may not be feasible.)
• Roughly how many pages and words?
• What service do you require? (See our Pricing and Services page for more information.)
In this email, you may choose to send your whole project. It is not required that you do, but we will not be able to give you an accurate quote or timeline without it. Once we have the project, we will reply with a quote and a more accurate timeline. Please be sure that you send a Microsoft Word-compatible document, such as .doc, .docx, or .rtf. (Please note: all editing will be done in Microsoft Word. Please make sure that you have a word processing program that is compatible with Microsoft Word, as having to work to covert your formatting may cause extra charges.)
2. After you have accepted the quote and timeline, we will send our editing contract via Signaturely. Please digitally sign the contract.
3. Once we have received the signed contract, we will send your first invoice and begin work. Upon completion of each section we've agreed upon as part of our payment plan, we will send you an emailed invoice via Square Invoicing. Once the section has been paid for (to see the accepted payment methods, please visit the pricing and services page), we will send you that section. You will receive both a rough version (with the changes tracked) and a cleaned version (with the changes accepted into the document). Once you receive that section back, feel free to make your own changes and ask questions about our changes. We need to make this clear: DO NOT MAKE FIXES TO ANY VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT OTHER THAN THE ONES WE SEND YOU, AND MAKE ALL CHANGES TO THE CLEANED VERSION. Fixing up any sections after you've sent them to us will require more work, and may be subject to additional fees. We also ask that you hold onto all fixes until the current run-through of your story has been completed, and that you track any changes you make.
4. We'd like to make sure that you can ask questions during any step of the process. For this reason, if you'd like to communicate via a method faster than email, such as text messaging, phone calls, Discord, or Telegram, please let us know.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to send an email!
1. Send an email to sean.gerace[at]ottercorrect[dot]com. Whether you have a project ready to submit or if you are just looking for more information, we'd love to hear from you! In your email, please state the following:
• What genre and type of writing is this? (Ex. Medieval Fantasy Novel)
• What is the story about? Give us a few sentences describing the main idea.
• Is there a specific deadline? (Please note: a short deadline may impact pricing, and some deadlines may not be feasible.)
• Roughly how many pages and words?
• What service do you require? (See our Pricing and Services page for more information.)
In this email, you may choose to send your whole project. It is not required that you do, but we will not be able to give you an accurate quote or timeline without it. Once we have the project, we will reply with a quote and a more accurate timeline. Please be sure that you send a Microsoft Word-compatible document, such as .doc, .docx, or .rtf. (Please note: all editing will be done in Microsoft Word. Please make sure that you have a word processing program that is compatible with Microsoft Word, as having to work to covert your formatting may cause extra charges.)
2. After you have accepted the quote and timeline, we will send our editing contract via Signaturely. Please digitally sign the contract.
3. Once we have received the signed contract, we will send your first invoice and begin work. Upon completion of each section we've agreed upon as part of our payment plan, we will send you an emailed invoice via Square Invoicing. Once the section has been paid for (to see the accepted payment methods, please visit the pricing and services page), we will send you that section. You will receive both a rough version (with the changes tracked) and a cleaned version (with the changes accepted into the document). Once you receive that section back, feel free to make your own changes and ask questions about our changes. We need to make this clear: DO NOT MAKE FIXES TO ANY VERSIONS OF THE DOCUMENT OTHER THAN THE ONES WE SEND YOU, AND MAKE ALL CHANGES TO THE CLEANED VERSION. Fixing up any sections after you've sent them to us will require more work, and may be subject to additional fees. We also ask that you hold onto all fixes until the current run-through of your story has been completed, and that you track any changes you make.
4. We'd like to make sure that you can ask questions during any step of the process. For this reason, if you'd like to communicate via a method faster than email, such as text messaging, phone calls, Discord, or Telegram, please let us know.
If you have any additional questions, feel free to send an email!
