Rates

Make sure your train cars are connected with commas!

Now we’ve come to a little discussed comma usage that I bet you’ve rarely, if ever, thought about: using a comma to separate two coordinating adjectives that modify the same noun. Now without using industry jargon, that simply means you use a comma to separate two descriptive words that are referring to the same thing. […]

What to do now that CreateSpace is no longer providing editing services

This is what you should do before publishing your manuscript now that CreateSpace does not offer editing services.

The Superhero Serial Comma

When editing any document for my clients, the one comma-usage error that I encounter more than any other is the lack of a serial comma. While saying serial comma makes me hungry because I always think of Cornflakes when I say it, I still say it – all…the…time. Nothing drives me crazier as an editor […]

Of course I know how to use a comma!

In the beginning… I remember when my first piece was published. I was nine years old and from then on I felt like I could be a great writer. I even thought I knew the rules, better than others. Boy was I in for a surprise much later in life. As a child I wrote […]

UPDATE: January 2018

It has come to my attention that while I am a professional writer and editor, I have been blogging about issues that matter to me rather than sharing my professional advice with people looking for the writing and editing answers that I can provide. It’s just one of many mistakes on the road to successfully […]

Editing

While it would be ideal to lay out a single rate guide, in the writing/editing world, professional writing and editing rates vary according to project, content, document size, and many other factors. Editing rates are charged per hour, as that is the most accurate representation of the labour required, and they are in line with Editors Canada guidelines.

Depending on content, genre, font, font size, and the service(s) required, it takes approximately 1 hour to edit 4 pages of a 1.15 spaced, Calibri, font size 11, slightly technical or academic document with no citations. For a fiction or creative nonfiction (or memoir) manuscript, it can take approximately 1 hour to edit 8 pages using the same font, size, and spacing. Reference lists take approximately 1 hour to edit 1 page.

Writing

Writing has more qualifications to determine a rate. Qualifications include content, purpose, research, creativity, branding, formatting, audience, etc. Projects can be charged by the page or the project, depending on the creativity and complexity.

General Rates

Rates begin at as little as $35/hour CAD and increase from there, depending on the project and the qualifications listed above. For a personalized quote, please fill out the contact form on the Contact Us page or send an email to b.beatty@silverscrollservices.com.

Payment follows a schedule (for most documents other than novel development) of half the amount due at project initiation and the second half due upon client receipt of the finished document.

Silver Scroll Services believes that quality writing and editing should be accessible to everyone. Therefore, rates are negotiable in certain circumstances.

Silver Scroll Services is here to make document development as easy as possible for you. That includes pricing and payment, so payment can be made via Interac e-transfer, direct deposit, credit card, PayPal, TransferWise, or money order.

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