Nonfiction
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SERVICES
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Book Coaching
Coaching provides accountability, support, advice, and feedback throughout the writing process. Bi-weekly or monthly Zoom sessions, and emails between them, can address anything from your writing habits and process, the manuscript’s content, structure, and development, feedback and revisions, or anything else that is blocking or slowing your progress or satisfaction with your work. $300.00/mo.
Content Editing
Content editing provides evaluation and critique of a manuscript’s organization, tone, comprehensiveness, and clarity. Most manuscripts can be much improved and made more reader-friendly through this process, particularly when the target audience will be less knowledgeable about the book’s subject than the author. $20–$35 per 1,000 words
Copy Editing
Copy editing addresses issues of mechanics and style, ensuring that the text is clear, correct, concise, and consistent. This includes reviewing for awkward or redundant phrasing, syntax issues, and errors in grammar, spelling, capitalization, and hyphenation, with the goal of producing a manuscript that communicates clearly and professionally while maintaining the author’s desired voice and mood. $15–$25 per 1,000 words
The 10,000-Word Edit
You know your book needs professional editing but your bank account is making unhappy noises about it? This option takes more time and effort on your part, but can save you money in the long run.
I’ll perform a detailed copyedit and critique of just ten thousand words. This provides you with clear examples of your habitual typos, grammatical errors, or other issues – which you can then search through the rest of your manuscript for and fix yourself. A lighter copy edit and/or proofreading is advisable before you click the “publish” button, if you can swing it, but you could save some significant cash by doing some solid cleanup ahead of time. $200
Proofreading
Proofreading provides a final check for the types of issues addressed in the copyediting stage, after other professionals have completed their work. This catches anything missed due to human error and mistakes introduced during the author’s revisions. Proofreading is often completed on a PDF of the formatted manuscript just prior to publishing. $12–$16 per 1,000 words
“The editing process with Robin is not only technical beyond any style manual I could understand, it’s a lesson on why and how many of the edits are made. It’s a fun lesson too, which adds one more reason to be a writer and have a great editor on your publishing team. I’m excited to get my the next book into Robin’s hands.”
Robin is a gem who made editing (and publishing!) my first book virtually painless. I highly recommend working with Robin for any of your editing needs. I don’t know how I could have published my book without her!
“Robin has performed copy editing for three of my memoirs, and has performed proofreading for the one that is closest to publication. I keep coming back to her because she is very thorough, and her comments provide insight into her edits. In addition, she has an uncanny way of finding inconsistencies in my story, even when those inconsistencies are several chapters apart. That tells me she’s not merely reading the words just to get through the manuscript, she’s building an understanding of the story as she performs her edits. That’s a valuable talent to have at one’s disposal.“
“Robin was fabulous to work with, she respected the time deadlines, responded promptly to communications and I learned a lot working with her. She did a great job editing my book.”
Selected Nonfiction Portfolio
