Description
Author and editor Richard Thomas offers a limited number of consultations each month. After you place your order, we will forward your contact information to Richard. He will email you within a day or two to discuss your needs and make a plan for execution of services.
Below are his list of services:
Query letter review (one page) $50.
Double-spaced only.
Manuscript review (read and response, no editing), $4/page
A manuscript evaluation—of a story OR novel—is basically a read and response, no editing, with evaluation of overall quality.
Double-space only.
Developmental editing, $7/page.
A developmental edit gives the author an overview and edit on what’s working (mostly big picture) and what isn’t, and includes some markets where the story could be sent.
Double-spaced only.
Full line editing (which includes developmental editing), $10/page.
A full edit includes developmental editing and a line-by-line copy edit. Copy editing looks for grammar, typos, tense, etc, and also includes a list of potential markets for submission.
Double-spaced only.
About Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of eight books—Disintegration and Breaker (Penguin Random House Alibi), Transubstantiate, Herniated Roots, Staring Into the Abyss, Tribulations, Spontaneous Human Combustion (Turner Publishing), and The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller, and Audie awards. His over 170 stories in print include The Best Horror of the Year (Volume Eleven), Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (Bram Stoker winner), Cemetery Dance (twice), PANK, storySouth, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Shallow Creek, The Seven Deadliest, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2-4), PRISMS, and Shivers VI.
