Let your words take wing.
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Noah Lukeman is a successful literary agent, with plenty of experience rejecting manuscripts. In The First Five Pages he shares that experience with the reader, giving good advice about how a manuscript can be improved in the revision process to make it more likely to be accepted. If you're thinking of doing your own editing, read this first.
If the work in question is book-length, it's customary for a potential editor to provide a sample for a small fee, or no charge. (If you run across one who doesn't, run.) This gives the author—that's you—a chance to see the editor's style, and to decide whether you'll be able to work with him.
It also helps the editor to provide an accurate estimate of editing costs and timeline, so both people win.
I prefer to offer a generous sample edit of up to 1000 words (about four manuscript pages). That's enough to let us each get a good idea of what the project will be like.
I suggest that you choose either a random section or a section that you're having trouble with. Pages from either the front or the back of the book don't make good samples, because those parts often present special problems and special opportunities. In fact, they usually receive more than their share of the editing time. That is, if a book is 100 pages long, the first four pages will take up more than four percent of the editing time.
You can send your sample by email, in either plain text or Microsoft Word format. If you'd like to use another format, let me know. I'll try to accommodate you.
Please answer the following questions in your email.
This will help me give you the best edit possible, and help me to offer an accurate quotation.
For more information, head over to Editing Services.
Request your free 1000 word sample edit, or just email with questions: editor@angelaharms.com
