Shayna Edits

professional editing & proofreading Services

Whether you’re completing your passion project or preparing a professional endeavor, editing from an expert eye gives your writing unbeatable polish that truly maximizes its impact. I deliver efficient, insightful results on every project with a high level of attention to detail.

My qualifications:

  • 15+ years editing experience

  • Award-winning and published writer

  • CRLA Certified Writing Tutor

  • B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on creative media analysis

  • Served as Editor on multiple publications

  • Experienced researcher and fact-checker

  • Former research fellow in humanities & social sciences

  • Dozens of successful projects edited

Shayna quickly grasps the essentials of any editing job. Doing that means that she consistently improves any writing in terms of its intent, grammar, punctuation, and readability. Everything that I have had Shayna review has been vastly improved. In the several decades that I have been a writer, editor, and publisher, I have never encountered another editor who has been so consistently reliable and talented.

Rosemary Klein, Founder of Three Conditions Press

Services

Timelines for all services are determined on a per-project basis, with a minimum turnaround of two weeks. Any length of text is accepted. For text shorter than 2000 words, a minimum rate of 2000 words will be applied. Rates may differ with genre and subject matter.

All edits are delivered via MS Word or Google Docs with tracked changes.

    • Fiction and non-fiction books

    • Query letters

    • Website copy

    • Academic essays, capstones, and dissertations

    • Resumes, CVs and cover letters

    • Poetry

    • Plays and scripts

    • Technical writing and copy, white papers

    • Blurbs and bios

    • Proposals for projects and grants

    • Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy

    • Creative non-fiction

    • Memoir

    • Literary fiction

    • Nature and science non-fiction

    • Political activism & social sciences non-fiction

    • Cooking, food travel, and recipe books

Fiction & Non-fiction Book Editing

Editorial Evaluation

For manuscripts between 30,000-100,000 words

  • Focuses on determining the next steps to bring the text to completion.

  • Includes a thorough assessment of a draft or finished piece to identify areas for improvement. You’ll receive an editorial response with my insights into your manuscript’s strengths as well as its main issues, such as structure, pacing, flow, and narrative.

$525

Substantive Editing

  • Focuses on refining and improving an entire text from top to bottom.

  • Improves structure and clarity of content as well as readability, syntax, word choice, style, and incorrect or awkward phrasing.

  • Includes full line editing, detailed editorial feedback, and a one-hour discussion call.

$0.06-0.08/word

Copy Editing

  • Focuses on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and internal consistency as well as overall clarity and sentence structure.

  • Research citations, fact-checking and formatting will be corrected where applicable.

  • Suitable for a finished text (i.e., a text that has already been edited for content) that has not been formatted for publication.

$0.03-0.04/word

Proofreading

  • Focuses on surface-level issues that may have been overlooked during copy editing.

  • Improves typographical errors. If necessary, very minor line edits may be suggested.

  • Suitable for a finished text. The last step before publication or submission.

$0.02/word

Indexing

  • Creation of an index for a finished, fully formatted manuscript.

  • Can be combined with proofreading.

$2/page

Trial Edit

I offer a trial edit to determine if my skills are a good fit for your project. All trial edits are $20 for an excerpt of ~1000-1200 words. Please mention you would like to do a trial edit in your initial inquiry.

My skills & strengths

  • Craft — finding just the right word for just the right moment, extensive knowledge of technique

  • Intuition — deep, intuitive understanding of language & its use

  • Problem solving — untangling your plot, clarifying your argument

  • Candor — supporting you with honesty and encouragement through this tricky business of writing

Selected Work

Ready to get started?

Please use the submission form. Alternatively, you can send an email to editing@shaynablank.com and include the following information:

Name
Title of Work
Genre
Word Count
Content Warnings, if applicable
Service Wanted