Blair Bancroft Editing

Welcome!
Blair Bancroft Editing offers Developmental Editing-a careful reading of your manuscript, taking note of all the essentials of creating a reader-grabbing book-from making your characters more vivid to adding sparkle to your dialogue. Is your story too wordy, too bare bones? In Romance, is there genuine attraction between the hero and heroine, no matter how much they squabble? In addition, I will be happy to answer any further questions you might have after your book has been edited.

Blair's Pledge:
I will use my thirty years' experience as an editor and quarter century as author of 50+ novels to offer a variety of ways you can polish your manuscript for submission to a publisher or upload to an e-vendor. The basics of every manuscript include: Setting, Main Characters, Secondary Characters, Plot, Narration, Dialogue, "Flow," Tension, and Overall Impression. In addition to marginal notes, I will write a summary of your approach to these topics, including the good as well as the problems that need fixing.

My qualifications:
1. Twenty years as an editor at Readers Press, an educational publishing company in Connecticut. And ten-plus years as an independent editor.

2. My many years writing Romance fiction, primarily Regency (Traditional & Historical). Also, Contemporary Romantic Suspense and Mystery, SciFi Fantasy, Medieval, Steampunk, and the 200,000-word Making Magic with Words, a compilation of all my blogs on Writing and Editing from 2011-2019.

Pricing:
1. First three chapters (to see if you're off to the right start) $200.00

2. 40,000-50,000 words (novella length) $600.00

3. 50,000-100,000 words (over that, negotiable) $1200.00

Payment is through Paypal

For questions and submissions, contact Blair at: blairgak@gmail.com