★ Rates for 2024 ★

Fiction copyediting: £14 / $20 per 1,000 words

Fiction detailed manuscript assessment and development notes: £11 / $15 per 1,000 words

Fiction proofreading: £9 / $12 per 1,000 words

Academic and educational copyediting: £20–25 / $30–35 per 1,000 words

(These rates are an average indication; rates may vary according to the scope of the job.)

What's the difference between manuscript assessment, copyediting and proofreading? This guide by Reedsy helpfully lays out the editorial phases.

Clients including

Random House
Penguin
Pan Macmillan
Head of Zeus
Titan Books
Simon & Schuster
LearningMate
University College London
London School of Economics
Electric Book Works
CORE Econ
AccountingStreams

Subjects

Fiction: genre, literary, crime, thrillers, mystery, adventure, science fiction, fantasy, horror, short stories, young adult, children's, middle grade; world literature, fiction in translation
Travel, sport, cookery, lifestyle
Higher education course material and texts, including business, maths, accounting, economics, and social sciences
Primary and secondary school texts
Marketing and promotional material
Web content
Corporate documents
Academic material in education, film and literary studies, business and economics, social sciences, and the humanities

Testimonials

“I really like your editing. You’re sensible and sensitive. Best editor ever.” fantasy author

“Thanks so much, you were brilliant, perceptive and sensitive. I really loved working with you and hope we can do this again in the future.” crime author

“Let me say: thank you. There is a lot of gratitude packed into those two words as you have vastly helped turn this into a much better novel.” thriller author

“I am so thankful for your expert guidance and the insight you have been able to share.” YA publisher

“I've just finished reading your edit and think it's great – very thorough, yet tactful, with the right level of intervention this MS required.” fiction publisher

Editorial services
Expert editing and proofreading

Are you a publisher in need of a highly experienced proofreader and copyeditor who knows the workflow back to front?
Are you an academic in humanities, social sciences, economics or related fields who needs work edited?
Have you written a novel and want it polished to a professional shine?
Do you need a human to check your AI-generated text?
Do you want to squash any errors before your course, report, brochure or newsletter goes to print or web?

You've come to the right place!

With over twenty-five years of professional wordworking experience in commercial and educational publishing and retail marketing, I'm a copyeditor and proofreader with a laser eye for detail.

Email me at LGedits@pm.me for quotes and enquiries.

My experience

Running my editorial business since 2009, I've edited and proofread scores of books for trade publishers, specialising in

crime, thrillers and genre fiction for adults and young readers.

I also work widely on educational and corporate materials.

I am a creative writing tutor at Oxford University.
I was a commissioning editor at Random House South Africa.
I have led novel-writing and copyediting courses at the SA Writers College and for the Professional Editors' Guild.
I am an Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading and a member of their course tutor panel.

These are just some of the brilliant books I've worked on:

And check out The Economy 2.0 and Principles of Accounting, two influential online textbooks I have copyedited.

Visit my full directory listing at the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.

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