A little
information about me and my editing work:
I
love editing and I seem to have the gene for catching every
little error, and also enjoy making suggestions for both
small and grand aspects of a book or individual
piece--grammatical, structural, or content-based. While my
own writing is more often poetry (though I have published
prose too), my editing is in all areas, but most often
prose. I charge fairly low in the range of what you'll find
online for editing work: I ask for between $40 and $60 an
hour (clients choose what they're comfortable with). How
many pages I can do in an hour depends on the quality of
editing and feedback you're looking for, but the average is
around 12-13. If I'm just proofing (punctuation, spelling,
a missing word or two) I would probably do more (that's
double-spaced pages), and if I'm looking more deeply into
meaning, thoughts and story, and how sentences convey all
that, I might do less. I'm very thorough, in proportion to
what you indicate that you want from me.
SOME
FEEDBACK ON MY EDITING WORK:
Alice
Fogel has been a wonderful reader for my creative
nonfiction and fiction. Her astute critiques have greatly
improved my books and I value her contributions
immensely. --Laurie Alberts,
Professor
of Creative Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in
Writing Program, and author of Faultline,
The Price of Land in Shelby, and
others.
Very
helpful. Your edits and corrections improve the flow
significantly. Excellent work.
–Chard deNiord, Associate
Professor of English, Providence College, and author
of Sad
Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs: Interviews &
Reflections on Contemporary American
Poets;
Night
Mowing; and
others.
A
clear eye, a listening ear, a gut feel for narrative line,
sympathy for the reader, and a deep fondness for
words--these are a few of the things that Alice Fogel
brings to an editing relationship. And she's a poet. What
else could a writer want to improve his/her work?
--Joe Sherman,
author of Young
Vermonters: Not an Endangered Species,
and
other books.