EDITING SERVICE!

I am a multi-published author, true, but more to the point, I’m also a professional editor, and I see manuscripts all the time whose authors have created fabulous stories, but who don’t possess the English skills to get past an editor at a New York publishing house. It breaks my heart to have to reject those books—but there isn’t a publisher in business today that has the editorial staff to “fix” stuff that could be great if it were only mended.

I can’t guarantee anything. The good Lord knows, I’ve had manuscripts rejected plenty of times—but I’ve also had more than fifty books published by New York Publishers.

I've revised my fee schedule yet again. This way it's absolutely impossible to get confused. I hope.
One cent per word.
How easy is that?

If you have a HUGE manuscript and NEED someone to edit it, we can probably come to some sort of agreement.

This is for a real assessment. I won’t pull any punches (but I’m very kind), so if you think your work is too precious to be critiqued, don’t bother, please! You can expect the following:

1.  Line edit of your manuscript. This includes editing grammar, punctuation, word usage, POV problems, jerky transitions, anachronisms, etc.

2.  Written suggestions either on the manuscript itself or separately (this could be with regard to word usage, pacing, point of view, clichéd dialogue and/or scenes, etc.).

Since MS Word has a keen “Track Changes” function that is very easy to use when editing, I’d prefer stuff be sent that way. However, I also work in Word Perfect, so that’s okay, too, and I do believe I have MS Works somewhere in my well-organized office (that’s a joke). We can do all of this over the Internet, too, which saves on postage. Isn’t technology wonderful?

I have been published in romance, mystery and westerns, so my qualifications for editing those genres is sound. I have edited chicklit and women’s fiction without any disasters befalling anybody, so they’re cool, too. I am not at all familiar with science fiction, horror, or fantasy, but I can still edit the heck out of a manuscript for punctuation and grammar.

Please e-mail me at alice@aliceduncan.net, and we’ll chat about it. I accept PayPal, too!






Alice Duncan
 P.O. Box 4316
 Roswell, NM 88202
 alice@aliceduncan.net
 http://aliceduncan.net/