Andie Carver – Editor

Hi! I'm Andie, and I would love to help you wrap up your book.

Please note: I have a full-time job on top of providing these freelance copy editing services, so depending on when your editing request or messages come in, it may take me up to 48 hours for me to respond.

🥉Editorial Assessment

You will receive an editor's letter (one to three pages) on what worked well, what could be improved, with a few specific examples of changes you could make to elevate the work, including both big-picture and line-level issues to correct.

* $500 min. for up to 50,000-word manuscripts (+ $0.01 per word over 50,000)

* 10-day turnaround

🥈Copy/Line Editing

I will consider tone, clarity, flow, and rhythm, prioritizing action verbs over passive verbs. Improving syntax and diction while maintaining the author's unique voice is my specialty. I track my changes in Word, so you can clearly see my edits, and I leave comments in the margins to let you know how the work is coming across to me as a reader. I use Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Ed. to guide my grammar edits and Merriam-Webster to guide my spelling edits.

* $900 min. for up to 30,000-word manuscripts (+ $0.03 per word over 30,000)

* Discounts for manuscripts I have worked on previously: $600 min. for up to 30,000-word manuscripts (+ $0.02 per word over 30,000)

* 21-day turnaround

Please note: I do not offer proofreading services at this time.

🆓I'm more than willing to provide a free sample edit to showcase my copy/line editing services. Please submit 3 pages, double spaced, from the middle of your book.

🥇Developmental Feedback Book Report

This service includes line edits (see above + I will move paragraphs around if the corresponding sections are only a short distance away), annotations, and a book report that covers:

✔️Assessment on how well the first third of the book communicates your thesis and/or introduces the story

✔️Identification of your reader audience

✔️Definitions of themes, motifs, tone, and voice

✔️Notes on words and sentence structures that have been repeated too frequently

✔️Evaluation of structural arc of the book overall

✔️Suggestions for rearranging your book or individual chapters as needed

✔️Chapter by chapter analysis: thesis, argument, sources, conclusion, segue

✔️Questions that need to be answered before the book can feel finished

✔️Points of plot or structure conflict that should be remedied

✔️Points of redundancy to cut

✔️Notes on specific areas you'd like me to review with special attention

✔️MORE

* $1,200 min. for up to 30,000-word manuscripts (+ $0.04 per word over 30,000)

* 30-day turnaround

Please note: I do not move scenes around for you. I may suggest cutting a scene that doesn't make sense in context to me, but you--knowing your story and your intention--could come to realize, as a result of that feedback, that you were not clear about a core detail. Instead of cutting the scene, you may decide to expand on that section.