London: This meeting will be hosted at a private members’ club in Soho, Central London (dress code: smart casual).

Ireland: I’m back and forth to the south of Ireland monthly, and would love to meet and chat about your project. We can arrange a location at booking stage that suits us both.

Cost: £250

Please add details in the booking form about:

• your project (genre/length etc)

• what you’d specifically like to talk about in the meeting

I’ll then be in touch to schedule a mutually agreeable time.

In advance of our conversation, I am happy to read up to 10,000 words of your project and the synopsis; I can give verbal feedback on this before we meet or after.

*** Online-coaching top-up: if you have booked one of my coaching packages and would like to convert an online meeting to in-person, please choose this add-on option (which costs £100 in addition to the coaching fee). This meeting can be arranged for London, UK, or in Cork or Waterford, Ireland.

I am happy to provide a sample edit if required. There is a £50 one-off charge for one hour of sample editing.

This can be redeemed against the fee total should you choose to go ahead with that specific service.

If you have requested more than one sample edit, only the fee for the service being progressed can be redeemed against that particular service. The other sample edit fees are non-refundable.

You are not obliged to take up a service after a sample edit. If you choose not to, the sample edit fee is non-refundable.

During an editorial assessment (also known as a reader’s report) I read your project, and write a report with feedback on areas like: themes, plot/characters if fiction, pace, positioning, structure, giving my thoughts on what I feel is working, and where there is scope to improve, with top-level suggestions about recommended next steps.

Price:

• from £10 per 1,000 words

• final price to be confirmed after I have assessed sample material; I’m happy to do this before you commit to booking / paying the booking fee

Payment stages: 

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance split half on project commencement and half on completion, to be paid by bank transfer. The project will be returned to you following receipt of the final payment.

Developmental Editing (one round)

This editing stage concentrates on the project's big-picture arc, and drills down into specific areas, like:

• Fiction: themes, plot, character development, pace, positioning, structure,

• Non-fiction: argument, organisation, tone, audience engagement, positioning/target audience

I'd write a report on these areas, and in addition I’d mark up the MS with queries and comments as I went through.

Price:

• from £21 per 1,000 words

• final price to be confirmed after I have assessed sample material; I’m happy to do this before you commit to booking / paying the booking fee

Payment stages:

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance split half on project commencement and half on completion, to be paid by bank transfer. The project will be returned to you following receipt of the final payment.

Developmental Editing (two rounds)

This editing stage concentrates on the project's big-picture arc, and drills down into specific areas, like:

• Fiction: themes, plot, character development, pace, positioning, structure,

• Non-fiction: argument, organisation, tone, audience engagement, positioning/target audience

Stage One: I'd write a report on these areas, and in addition I’d mark up the MS with queries and comments as I went through.

Stage Two: when you have revised the MS, I will do one round of assessment, reviewing your changes and giving you feedback.

Price:

• from £27 per 1,000 words

• final price to be confirmed after I have assessed sample material; I’m happy to do this before you commit to booking / paying the booking fee

Payment stages:

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance split half on project commencement (stage one) and half on completion (stage one), to be paid by bank transfer. The project will be returned to you following receipt of the final payment.

Line edit

I work at a line level in this edit, looking at the language used, and tightening up sentence structure (keeping in mind the author's style), suggesting cuts where necessary, correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation throughout, ensuring consistency and looking at the pace of the text and whether it flows as well as possible, identifying any areas that could be improved. 

I will a style sheet that maps out the style I’ve enforced, preferred spelling, character details etc for consistency. This is very useful for the proofreading stage, and also if you are planning a series.

Price:

• from £22 per 1,000 words

• final price to be confirmed after I have assessed sample material; I’m happy to do this before you commit to booking / paying the booking fee

Payment stages: 

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance split half on project commencement and half on completion, to be paid by bank transfer. Project is sent following receipt of the final payment.

Copy edit

• The copy-edit stage concentrates mostly on the mechanics and the technical aspects of the MS (spelling, grammar, punctuation, consistency), and I would make additional suggestions as appropriate. 

• I’d create a style sheet that maps out the style I’ve enforced, preferred spelling, character details etc for consistency. This is very useful for the proofreading stage, and also if you are planning a series.

Price:

• from £16 per 1,000 words

• final price to be confirmed after I have assessed sample material; I’m happy to do this before you commit to booking / paying the booking fee

Payment stages: 

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance split half on project commencement and half on completion, to be paid by bank transfer. The project will be returned to you following receipt of the final payment.

Are you ready to approach agents and want to ensure your submission material is doing your project justice and helping you stand out from the slush pile?

As part of the Submission Package Assessment, I will give advice on the following, writing a report with my thoughts:

• agent letter

• 1-page synopsis

• First 8,000 words

Price: £350

Payment stages: 

• £100 booking fee to schedule the project

• the remaining balance to be paid by bank transfer by the project commencement date.

• 1 x ad hoc by-the-hour online coaching

This hour can be spent talking about an initial idea, a progressing project, publishng advice etc - do let me know in the booking form what you’d like to discuss.

Note: This one hour can be split in two, with me spending half the time reviewing material ahead of us speaking if you’d like. Please add this request to the booking form. (I need to receive this material at least 24 hours before our call to guarantee I’ll have the time to read it.)

• Ad hoc by-the-hour online coaching. Includes:

  • 1 x one-hour call

  • plus 1 x additional hour of reading (approx. 5,000-6,000 words) with feedback; this can happen before or after the call

Like the other coaching packages, you can book Silver Coaching as and when you need it, or several sessions at a time.

Having a few spread in the diary can be helpful accountability, motivating you to make the time to progress your project in and around other demands on your time.

• 1 x one half-day coaching session

This equates to 4 hours split how you wish between call and reading / advice

I’m happy to read the material before the call, or if you’d like to chat first that’s perfectly fine too - however you’d like to work.

• 2 x one half-day coaching sessions in one month

This equates to two sessions of 4 hours each, with the time split how you wish between call and reading / advice).

Includes a complimentary 30-minute planning session, where we will map out the objectives for the month.

Note: sessions to be booked within 4 weeks of each other.

• 1 x one half-day coaching session per month

  • Duration: over 3 months

  • Billing: every 4 weeks

This equates to two sessions of 4 hours each, with the time split how you wish between call and reading / advice.

Includes a complimentary 30-minute planning session, where we will map out the objectives for the three months.

Stuck for the perfect gift for the writer in your life??

Gift them a voucher to cover a phone/video call with me, and help them take the next step on their writing journey.*

Are they near London, UK, or near Cork/Waterford, Ireland? Perhaps they’d get value from a meeting with an experienced book editor in person to chat about their project or next steps?

They can also incorporate your gift as part of the booking fee for one of my other services, if that’s how they’d prefer to use it.

The voucher can be emailed directly to the recipient at checkout, or you can email it to yourself and pass this to the recipient.

* Note: 1) The recipient must be 18 or older; 2) the voucher must be redeemed within 12 months of purchase; 3) vouchers cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers and must be used by the named recipient only; 4) no cash equivalent and there are no refunds on gift vouchers