After you finish any revision, I will also read your manuscript again and write a one-page progress report, to address how the manuscript has developed and where it can continue to develop. I’m here for you to bounce ideas off of, and to talk through your plan going forward. Every job I do includes however many emails or phone calls you wish to have to discuss not only the work I’ve done, but your ideas going forward. If you are an agent and want a reference, please contact me.

Agency work: I have been a reader for multiple top agents and have recommended projects that have gone on to sell to major houses.Submission work: I can help you write and edit your submission letters to help polish your approach to agents.Because line-editing is charged on an hourly rate rather than a project basis, you can work with me on just the first fifty pages, for instance, and keep going from there yourself. I offer this sort of work on either a set number of pages or the entire book. I recommend this for people who have already gone through an editorial process and still aren’t seeing the results they seek. The line-edit: This is the granular line-by-line editing of a book, really digging in to the prose to help you cut and shape and hone.If there is a particular element of your book you want me to focus on, I can also do a section on that as well. And, it will include a separate look at where you can go from here, different aspects of your book that you can continue to explore.

It will include analysis of what isn’t working yet, so that you have a clear plan for what revision will take your book to the next level. It will include analysis of what is working in this draft, so that you go forward with as much an eye on what to retain as what to revise. This report will include a synopsis, because I’ve found it can really help an author to read back what someone else sees as the plot of his or her book.

The evaluation: I’ll read your manuscript and write you a lengthy (usually topping 5000 words) report.

Here’s an overview, though, of some of the services provided. Every book has unique needs, and in our initial discussions, before you hire me, we’ll lay out together what your goals are.

Without Borders by Amanda Heger