Kindle Services Recommendation List

 

This probably requires a little explanation.

 

I wrote an article for Sarah Hoyt on the Economics of Indie Publishing.  A number of people asked me for contact details for editors and cover designers I had used myself (and could therefore vouch for).  I drew up a list of everyone I had worked with over the years, then asked if they wanted to be included.  Everyone listed below is definitely worth the money I paid them. 

 

I’m not going to include anyone I cannot vouch for, so please don’t ask to be included (but I’m always happy to make new contacts.) 

 

Editors - Cover Designers/Artists

 

Cover Designers/Artists

 

Name: Brad Fraunfelter (Brad Fraunfelter Illustration)

Website: www.BFillustration.com

Email: brademail99@TAKETHISOUTyahoo.com

Directory of Illustration Page: https://www.directoryofillustration.com/artist.aspx?AID=15606

Payment: PayPal

Speciality (In Own Words): I specialize in Fantasy and Science Fiction illustration, but I have also done cover work for Romance, War, and a number of other genres.

Rates: $900 to $1000 for full cover spread, including titles, but if the client has budgetary constraints I try to work with them if I can, to accommodate their needs.

 

 

 

Name: Justin Adams

Website: www.variastudios.com

Email: variastudios@TAKETHISOUTgmail.com

Payment: PayPal

Speciality (In Own Words): Concept Design/Illustration

Rates: $700-$2000

 

 

Name: Jeremy Taylor

Website: http://www.jeremytaylor.eu/books/e-book-cover-designs-introduction/

Payment: PayPal

Speciality: Adding cover details to stock image photo from ISTOCKPHOTO and other stock image sites.

Rates: $58 (if you provide your own image).  Can pay for image directly and add to the bill.

 

 

Name: Alexander Chau

Website: www.alexanderchau.co.uk

Email: alexanderchau92TAKETHISOUT@gmail.com

Payment: Paypal (or other)

Speciality (In Own Words): Personalised, hand-painted illustrations. My aim is always to capture the essence of a book, a feeling, a style and to help it stand out amongst photoshopped/photomanipulated imagery.

Rates: £200

 

Editors

 

Name: Rebecca Hall

Website: https://rjhediting.wordpress.com/

Payment: Online Transfer

Speciality (In Own Words): Copy editing/proofreading, identification of inconsistencies. Through a combination of track changes and comments I correct typos and erroneous auto-completes and use comments to note inconsistencies in the plot, characterisation and setting. I also point out anything that is awkward to read and sentences/concepts that I love.  Fantasy is my preferred genre. I can work in others but I won't be able to verify your originality.

Rates: £3 per 1000 words for the first 150k, by negotiation for longer works.  

 

Name: Barb Caffrey

Website: http://elfyverse.wordpress.com

Email: barbcaffrey@TAKETHISOUTyahoo.com

Payment: PayPal

Speciality (In Own Words): I do conceptual editing (also known as developmental editing), copy-editing, proofreading and continuity reading. Usually I'm called upon to do more than one of these at a time; most of the time I get called upon to do conceptual editing and copy-editing/continuity reading.  If you hire me, I'll give you a five-page sample copy-edit, just so you can see what I do and whether or not you think we can work together.

Rates: .01/word for copy-editing and/or continuity reading, .01/word plus negotiated fee for conceptual editing (I need to see what you have before we can discuss it), .0075/word for proofreading.  (Some sort of start fee is required before I start to work for you.)

 

Name: Christine Amsden

Website: http://christineamsden.com/wordpress/?page_id=1445

Payment: PayPal

Speciality (In Own Words): conceptual editing, developmental editing, mentoring

Rates: $20 per hour (flat rate bids are available based on type of editing desired and the state of the manuscript)

 

Name: Robert Goerlich

Website: http://seniorproofreader.com

Email: robert@TAKETHISOUTseniorproofreader.com

Payment: PayPal

Speciality (In Own Words):  I specialize in science fiction, historical fiction, alternate history, fantasy, history, biographies, adventure, thrillers and popular science. I will check spelling, punctuation, grammar, usage, awkward or inappropriate wording, redundancies, confusing terms, readability, consistency and tense issues. On request, I will translate British English to American English. Correction notes can be returned in a separate document or I will return your eBook commented and marked up with Microsoft Word tracking or Google Docs suggesting.

Rates: An entire eBook is US$.004 per word for five thousand words per day. A hundred thousand word book would be US$400.00 and done in twenty days. I would hope to do the proofreading in less than half that time, but sometimes real life intrudes. When the book is broken up into chapters delivered separately or groups of chapters the rate is US$.005 per word figuring two days for ten thousand words.

 

Name: Lance Buckley
Website: www.lancebuckley.com

Email: lance@TAKETHISOUTlancebuckley.com

Payment: Credit/Debit/PayPal
Speciality (In Own Words): Former Amazon/KDP book cover and interior designer with over 8 years of experience working with independent authors and publishers.
Rates: $250-500 depending on complexity 

 

 

 

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