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 you’ve reached the stage with your writing project when a professional perspective could be useful for you, ARTWIFE Editorial would be honored to support you. And we’re especially pleased to announce our very first guest editor, D. W. White!
D. W. White is the Founding Editor of L’Esprit Literary Review, Prose Editor of West Trade Review, and Publisher of Indirect Books. A Ph.D. candidate in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago, his criticism and prose appear in 3:AM, The Florida Review, New Critique, Necessary Fiction, and Chicago Review of Books, among others. He teaches fiction workshops at UIC and a graduate seminar on Rachel Cusk in the MFA Program at Roosevelt University. His book-length study of narration in the novels of Cusk, The Revolution Comes From Within, will be published next year by Indirect Books. You can read his short fiction published in our magazine here and hear his thoughts on writing, literature, narrative considerations, and much more here.
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 others.
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/research, opinion, prescriptive nonfiction, etc., will likely derive more benefit from working with an editor specializing in their respective field(s).
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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 1,500 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 Dan twice during the process. You will also receive copy edits, line-level comments, and developmental feedback.
Virtual Meetings Included:
- One 20-minute session before Dan reads your work to discuss your vision and aims, difficulties you’ve had with the work, questions you’d like him to consider, etc.
- One 30-minute session after Dan has read your work to share his 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 300
- 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
316.87 + 150 = $466.87