Book Doctor

How The Book Doctor Can Help You!

Constructive feedback on the big-picture elements throughout every chapter of your manuscript via in-manuscript comments. Improve characterization, worldbuilding, scene-setting, symbolism, continuity, themes, and more!

Improve the flow, style, and voice of your text on a sentence-by-sentence level. In-depth guidance on vocabulary, dialogue, description, and more, creating a natural and consistent authorial voice in your writing.

Peace of mind from the pesky grammar police! Fix all technical issues in punctuation, formatting, grammar, and more. Plus, get your own style sheet and industry-standard (CMOS) style guide.

Meetings with yours truly to brainstorm and go over every comment, improving your book at your pace and focusing on exactly what you are looking to perfect. You're hiring your very own book-writing coach!

What do I get?

The full package! Includes a three-phase edit that provides approximately one and a half developmental edits, one and a half line edits, and one full proofread. Includes everything in the other editing categories, such as...
In-depth technical fixes for grammar, formatting, punctuation, etc.
Sentence-by-sentence improvement of style, flow, word choice, and overall writing quality. Line-level coaching.
Developmental comments on characterization, symbolism, magic/technology systems, believability, theme development, and more.
Meetings to go over all comments in depth.
Extra edits and thoughts on any changes/additions made in response to comments.
Access to Evan’s Editing Guide, a comprehensive resource written for every level of writer and every level of editing.
$40/hr / ~$0.09/word*

*$/word estimates are based on edits taking an average amount of time. Depending on how polished your writing is, the total cost could be higher or lower. I can provide a more accurate estimate after a short 1000-word sample edit.

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