For the right project at the right time (i.e., a project that has been revised based on Sarah’s manuscript evaluation & falls at the right time in her schedule) Sarah will do a line edit similar to the editorial work of a major publishing house. She will: make in-line editorial suggestions in Track Changes mode (Word doc only) for readability, grammar, spelling errors, and other glaring problems; ask clarifying questions using the comments feature in Word; and push the author to polish certain sections to greater shine. She will not: act as a proofreader to catch every single little mistake (authors can hire proof-readers for that), nor will she respond to dozens of emails afterwards. The author is welcome to send one email asking a few brief clarifying questions, to which Sarah will respond briefly in one email.

Cost: $65/hour (depending on manuscript length, this will most likely total between $2,000-$3000).

Turn-around: At a deadline to be determined by Sarah and the author. This will never be less than a month. Service fee: $75/hour (this can cost between $2000-$3000)

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This service is provided by Sarah Arthur, a seventeen-year publishing veteran and the author, editor, or contributor for over a dozen books. She was first known for her bestselling, award-winning devotionals, including Walking With Frodo: A Devotional Journey through The Lord of the Rings (Tyndale), but she has since branched out into more in-depth literary engagement, including the Literary Guides to Prayer series from Paraclete Press (while secretly writing Young Adult novels!). For several years Sarah has been the preliminary fiction judge for Christianity Today Book Awards. She is a fun-loving speaker and has served for the past two years on the faculty of the Frederick Buechner Writers Workshop at Princeton Seminary, and as a presenter at the Writing For Your Life webinar series. When she isn’t writing, Sarah is the volunteer youth coordinator of Sycamore Creek United Methodist Church in Lansing, MI, where she lives with her pastor-husband Tom and their two little boys.

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Website: www.saraharthur.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraharthurcom/
Twitter: @HolyDreaming
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