ARTWIFE EDITORIAL
Writing and editing are two related but distinct skills; it’s not realistic to expect every writer to be equally adept at both. If your project is at a stage where you could use a professional perspective, ARTWIFE Founding Editor Hannah Harlee would be honored to work with you.
The ARTWIFE Editorial approach is collaborative and interactive. The process is built around each individual writer’s vision for their work. You will be asked specific questions about your influences and inspirations, as well as your hopes for the piece: the tone you’d like to strike, the impression you’d like to leave with the reader, etc. The process is not formulaic nor mechanical; rather, we’ll consider and feel our way through all possible roadblocks to getting your best work on the page, including typical creative challenges like perfectionism, avoidance, ambivalence, various anxieties, and more.
Please note that ARTWIFE offers editorial services for prose only; poetry is not reviewed. Our expertise is best suited to works of literary fiction & nonfiction. Writers working in categories like genre fiction, journalism, opinion, prescriptive nonfiction, etc., will likely derive more benefit from working with an editor specializing in their respective fields.
Your guide, Hannah Harlee, has been editing the written word for over a decade. Most recently, she spent nearly six years as a Senior Editor at a Silicon Valley startup, writing and editing hundreds of articles on pregnancy, childbirth, adult health, mental health, and various clinical conditions. She was the Managing Editor and, later, Faculty Advisor for the Sierra Nevada Review, and she is the Founding Editor of ARTWIFE Magazine. She has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and she writes literary fiction & nonfiction in forms ranging from flash to book-length.
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ACCESSIBLE | $55
Choose this option when you could use editorial support but you’re working with a limited budget. Submit up to 1500 words (a completed work or the beginning of a longer piece) and receive 1 page of written feedback with 7 days.
Video consultation, copy editing, and in-line comments not included.
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COMPLETE | Priced by Word Count
The Complete Editorial Package is a comprehensive editorial approach. You will meet virtually with Hannah twice during the process. You will receive copy edits, line-level comments, and developmental feedback.
Virtual Meetings Included:
- One 20-minute session before Hannah reads your work to discuss your vision and aims, difficulties you’ve had with the work, questions you’d like her to consider, etc.
- One 30-minute session after Hannah has read your work to share her impressions and offer suggestions/exercises/considerations for your next draft
Editing Included:
- Copy editing (grammar, consistency, spelling, etc.)
- In-line comments
- Developmental feedback (AKA “big picture” feedback regarding story elements like structure, pacing, tone, character development, plot holes, etc.)
Timeline:
Projects at or under 4,000 words will be completed within 3 weeks of submitting full payment, due at our first editorial meeting. Projects over 4,000 words will be completed within 6 weeks of submitting full payment, due at our first editorial meeting. (Discounts are not given if a client cancels a virtual meeting or is unable to schedule meetings within these timeframes.)
Pricing:
All pricing starts at a baseline of $150, plus $11 per 300 words. To get the best idea of how much your service will cost, follow these steps:
- Take your project’s total word count and divide that number by 3
- Multiply that result by 11
- Add 150
For example:
If your project is 8,642 words total:
8642 / 300 = 28.80
28.80 × 11 = 316.87
158 + 150 = $466.87