Editorial Services
First-Time Clients: Please email a brief statement summarizing your writing background and stating your goals and expectations for your work.
Guidelines for Poetry:
First-time Poetry Clients Only:
Preliminary Reading and Assessment $100
Send 15 pages of poetry—no more than 1
poem per page; 32 lines per page max.
After the preliminary assessment, you may choose from these options:
Option 1: Individual poems (min. 3)
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General response, suggestions,
and/or editing $8 a page
(no more than 1 poem per page;
32 lines per page max.)
Option 2: Longer works—Chapbooks
(max
30 pages) $175
Full length manuscript (max 65 pages)
$250
Includes
* critique of individual poems
* overall suggestions for improvement of manuscript
* suggestions for alternative ordering of poems, if indicated
* suggestions for alternative title for manuscript, if needed
Payment Schedule: If under $50,
payment is due when you submit the poems or
manuscript; if over $50, half of the amount is due when you
submit the manuscript; remaining half due after you
receive the manuscript.
Mailing Information: You must
enclose SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope)
with sufficient postage for return of manuscript.
If the package weighs more than one pound, be sure the
package that the SASE bears a USPO metered marking
(rather than postage stamps). Never send your only copy.
To meet in person: $75 per hour
(References provided upon request.)