Word-Gardening Services

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Stand-Alone Services

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Line Editing + Copyediting Service

A line edit revises your manuscript, sentence by sentence, focusing on phrasing, cadence, and clarity, as well as on the consistency of narrator and character voices. It also looks for continuity concerns like plot holes, making sure your manuscript has the best structure and support to stand tall. Copyediting included.

From $30 per 1,000 words

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Copyediting Service

A copyedit corrects typos and grammatical errors and edits for stylistic consistency with applicable standards, most commonly The Chicago Manual of Style and Merriam-Webster. It also identifies continuity concerns and provides basic fact-checking, ensuring your manuscript is free to bloom vibrantly.

From $24 per 1,000 words

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Proofreading Service

A proofread corrects lingering typos and errors and gives your manuscript a final scan for inconsistencies and continuity issues. Freed from the stranglehold of typographical weeds, your manuscript can ripen for harvest.

From $14 per 1,000 words

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Promotional Text Service

Promotional text is the primary copy you’ll use to describe your book—on the back cover, in bookseller listings, and on your website. With Amazon Ads optimization, this service delivers an author bio, a book description, and a set of taglines, as if placing the highlights of your work in a vase and setting them on display for the world.

Full-length books from $800

Packages and Add-Ons

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Editing Packages

These combine 2 or more editing services as listed above.

Price on request.

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Editing + Promotional Text

This provides standard or series promotional text (as outlined here) on top of any editing service or package.

Add-on: 50% of stand-alone rate