My fourth official year as a business was my busiest yet. As is my habit, I like to review how I did. My metrics are income on some level, but also, I like to assess how many projects came from new clients and how many from returning clients, and to consider how any sales, discounts,ContinueContinue reading “2024 Year in Review”
Category Archives: Service
Special offer for 2025
This is not replacing the regular November newsletter. I had something I felt I needed to do. Feel free to share this post to your social connections. ~ LZ Special offer (contest) for 2025 After processing the US election results for the last few days, I have decided I need to take some action. DoContinueContinue reading “Special offer for 2025”
Coaching
Rate: $60 per hour Coaching sessions, are direct instructional discussions about your writing using Zoom. In this one-on-one space, I can help you with specific aspects of story craft: point of view building stories developing characters the difference between present and past tense (and how to fix the errors) how to recognize and fix pointContinueContinue reading “Coaching”
Proofreading
Rate: $5.00 per 1,000 words ($0.005 per word) What is a Proofread? A proofread is the final step before publication and copy editing – fixing the spelling, grammar, punctuation, and flow of the story’s sentences for tone and clarity – should already have been done. You may say that you had beta readers and didn’tContinueContinue reading “Proofreading”
Developmental Editing
Rate: $16.00 per 1,000 words ($0.016 per word) Note: the developmental edit is based on the target word count typical of the genre of your story. Here’s a Reedsy article regarding book length that may help you determine what this means for your project. I typically only take on ONE developmental client at a time,ContinueContinue reading “Developmental Editing”
Manuscript evaluation
Rate: $6.00 per 1,000 words ($0.006 per word) Note: the evaluation is based on the target word count typical of the genre you are writing in. Here’s a comprehensive Reedsy article regarding book length that may help you. Here’s a simple graphic . The reason for this is that evaluations will include ways to increaseContinueContinue reading “Manuscript evaluation”
Book formatting
This is a new service I am offering (2023) so turnaround time is not yet set in stone. Flat rate minimum (assuming a novel of ~50k) = $120, and done in one week. $10 (and another day) per 10,000 words above that, so… 60k book = $130.70k book = $140.80k book = $150. What youContinueContinue reading “Book formatting”
Copy editing
Rate: $9.00 per 1,000 words ($0.009 per word) Copy Editing is editing that brings the manuscript up to the appropriate style through paragraph and sentence restructuring, and grammar fixes to fix or strengthen voice and tone. A copy editing sample (free up to 1,500 words) is definitely recommended before we dive in. You’ll want toContinueContinue reading “Copy editing”
What affects turnaround time?
I have a robust business editing for indie authors, and have been told both that my turnaround time is too slow, or it’s faster than they expect. I thought it might be beneficial to blog about what goes into a quote about turnaround time, aka the time it takes from getting the project file, untilContinueContinue reading “What affects turnaround time?”
2022 Roundup
Twelve months ago I wrote a wish list for 2022 as part of my closure for 2021. Though it took until the very last days of 2022, I managed to accomplish nearly all of the items on the list – none so completely as the goals for truly establishing my business, LZ Edits. Formalized withContinueContinue reading “2022 Roundup”
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