About
The moment an author decides to share their carefully crafted worlds with readers (a vulnerable prospect in its own right), they begin the arduous task of gathering a trusted group comprised of family, friends, and industry professionals that will ultimately shape their final product. At Pink Ink Editing, we offer Fiction and Creative Non-fiction editing services that not only prepare your work for printing, but celebrate and protect your authorial vision. We centralize the author's voice and intent at every stage of the writing process—from developmental feedback on an emerging draft to the final stages of line and copyediting.Pink Ink Editing specializes in the following genres (and many of their subgenres):
Fantasy
Romance
Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Mystery
Memoir
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Meet the Editor
As a long-time reader, writer, and lover of intricate, color-laden stories, Janna has devoted her life's work to nurturing the worlds and words of writers at all levels. Janna holds a Master's degree in English Studies with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Speculative Fiction, and has a variety of editing experiences within both Indie and Small Press publishing.Janna is an English and Composition teacher at both the collegiate and secondary levels. Her career as a teacher highly influences her work as an editor. At the heart of great teaching and editing practices is the recognition that the writer's voice must first be empowered before it can be developed and refined, and empowering one's voice as a writer requires understanding and empathy just as much as it requires expertise, an eye for correctness, and an ear for words' textures and rhythms. Professional feedback should never shift the nature of the author's work, but surface its potential, and this emergence can be both critical and celebratory. This philosophy on feedback led to Janna's noteworthy use of pink pens when writing on hardcopy manuscripts and the name of "Pink Ink Editing." In her opinion, critical commentary must be written in "pink ink" because red intimidates and blue is simply too bland.For Janna, editing someone's story—real or imagined—is far from an impersonal "services rendered." Editing is an intimate relationship between the work, the author, and the very real audience waiting in anticipation for the worlds they never could have imagined, or perhaps, for the worlds they could only imagine and have been anxiously waiting to experience.
Packages and Pricing
Complete Editing Package
Cost: 0.275/Word
Package Includes:
Developmental Editing
Line Editing
Copy Editing
Blurb Editing
Timeline Breakdown (10 Weeks Total):
5-week turnaround for Developmental Edits
4-week turnaround for Line Edits (Occurs after Author’s Developmental Revisions)
1-week turnaround for Copyedits (Occurs after Author’s Review of Line Edits)
For add-on services, review the Editing A La Carte page!
*Published prices and timelines are for manuscripts that do not exceed 100,000 words. Manuscripts that exceed this limit may have alternative timelines and/or prices.
Line and Copy Editing Package
Cost: 0.275/Word
Package Includes:
Line Editing
Copy Editing
6-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.1/Word)
4-week turnaround for Line Edits
2-week turnaround for Copyedits (Occurs after Author’s Review of Line Edits)
4-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.13/Word)
3-week turnaround Line Edits
1-week turnaround Copyedits (Occurs After Author’s Review of Line Edits)
3-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.15/Word)
2-week turnaround Line Edits
1-week turnaround Copyedits (Occurs After Author’s Review of Line Edits)
For add-on services, review the Editing A La Carte page!
*Published prices and timelines are for manuscripts that do not exceed 100,000 words. Manuscripts that exceed this limit may have alternative timelines and/or prices.
Developmental Editing
6-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.15/Word)
5-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.175/Word)
4-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.2/Word)
For add-on services, review the Editing A La Carte page!
*Published prices and timelines are for manuscripts that do not exceed 100,000 words. Manuscripts that exceed this limit may have alternative timelines and/or prices.
Copy Editing
4-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.007/Word)
3-Week Timeline (Cost: 0.008/Word)
For add-on services, review the Editing A La Carte page!
*Published prices and timelines are for manuscripts that do not exceed 100,000 words. Manuscripts that exceed this limit may have alternative timelines and/or prices.
Editing A la Carte:
Blurb Editing: $25 flat fee per blurb
Blurb Writing: $75 (Only available if a Complete Editing Package Client or Developmental Editing Client)
Content Pulls: $120 (Only available to Line Editing or Developmental Editing Clients)
*Note: Content pulls Include potential quotes for advertising and scenes for promotional materials. Quote pulls are only available on manuscripts that have already undergone Line Editing and are receiving Copy Editing services. This ensures that there are no discrepancies between content selected and the final draft of the manuscript.
