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How much does editing cost?
Episode 46th February 2019 • The Editing Podcast • Louise Harnby (fiction editor) and Denise Cowle (non-fiction editor)
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In this episode of The Editing Podcast, Denise and Louise discuss how much professional editing might cost if you decide to hire a third party. Listen to find out how the following could impact on the fee you’re quoted:

  • The individual editor
  • Which industry surveys and reports you read
  • The required turnaround time
  • The speed at which the editor works
  • How terminology might confuse quotations
  • How complex the project is

Plus:

  • How editors present fees
  • What editing fees have to cover: editing and business overheads

Editing bites

  • Everybody Writes: Your Go-to Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (Ann Handley)
  • How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published (Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman)

Denise and Louise

Music credit

‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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