If you have a project and would like to find out how I can help you, contact me by email, with a brief description of what you have now, and what your goal is. Please provide me with your name, address (for snail mail), phone number, FAX if you have it, and preferably ICQ, a free Instant Messaging service, the most inexpensive way for us to communicate quickly. ICQ provides an informal record of points we make together. If you do not presently have ICQ, please go to their URL, http://www.icq.com, and sign up. |
SHANNON EDITS Fees Procedures |
Working with me is easy. The Process is this... |
The original, exploratory interview is at no charge. It takes place either via on-line messaging (like ICQ, MSN Messenger), an email query & response, or by telephone (your dime). There is no reading fee for me to review a one-page abstract of a full-length book, together with its first chapter, and a chapter outline for the balance of the book. |
If you have a project and would like to find out how I can help you, contact me by email, with a brief description of what you have now, and what your goal is. Please provide me with your name, address (for snail mail), phone number, FAX if you have it, and preferably ICQ, a free Instant Messaging service, the most inexpensive way for us to communicate quickly. ICQ provides an informal record of points we make together. If you do not presently have ICQ, please go to their URL, http://www.icq.com, and sign up. |
There is a separate reading fee of $100 for the required read of a full-length manuscript (over 2,500 words) see prior to a bid or contract between us, regardless of whether you have finished the book, even in draft form. The fee must be paid in advance and will cover, from me, a detailed written analysis of the primary needs the book requires as I view them. I will formulate a bid and submit it as a contract proposal. When you have signed and notarized the contract, you send it by snail mail to me. All contracts require the entire amount of the bid to be deposited in an escrow account which I will set up with an escrow firm. The contract will stipulate an additional deposit towards expenses over and above the bid for the job; the expense funds will also be placed in escrow before any work by Shannon Edits begins. The escrow fees will be paid by me. Expenses are defined as long distance phone calls, postage, and any other collateral expense, including but not limited to travel expense incurred specifically for the project. |
Funds are paid out from the escrow account by the Escrow Officer in accordance with the fee schedule set forth in the contract. Expenses will be reimbursed upon submission of invoices with receipts which I provide the Escrow Officer. Contracts for books may provide for title page credit to Shannon Edits on projects requiring major work by me. Other undertakings require acknowledgment of Shannon contributions in a preface or note. |
You will be provided a possible approach to your project by email, with the caveat that it will be adapted and changed as needed. However, both fiction and non-fiction manuscripts must be submitted to me before my bid. Subject to the conditions that follow, I will then email you a bid. |
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Courier New font, 12 point, double spaced; 1-inch margins all sides. With this format, the average is 250 words per page. True we have "word count" with our puters now, but you will be astonished by how closely this formula approximates the actual word count. When one is creating madly, it is nice to take a quick look at pages completed instead of zapping to the tools menu! |
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If you use the standard manuscript format, 2,500 words is about 10 typewriten pages with the following parameters: |
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