I provide private editing and critiques of all forms of writing, including novels, memoir, academic or legal writing, articles, and resumes and cover letters. The service includes a thorough over-all critique of how the piece is working, and suggestions for final polish, as well as line-by-line edits and suggestions. For stories and novels, each element of the craft is thoroughly analyzed and addressed, including plot, character, setting, theme, style, pacing and voice.
Rates:
Fiction, memoir, non-referenced work by native English speakers:
$5 per page, $100 minimum ($100 for a single unit/critique of 20 pages or less).
Discounts for longer works:
10% discount for a single unit (single critique, for example the first half of a novel) of 100-199 pages.
15% discount for a single critique of 200 or more pages.
Discounts for frequent, on-going critiques:
Writing that is sent for critique in at least monthly intervals (for examples, novel chapters), will receive the discounts once 100 pages (10%) or 200 pages (15%) are reached, and will continue at the discounted rate as long as the writing is received monthly.
Rush rate (48-hour per 100 pages):
$7 per page ($140 minimum). Bulk discount does not apply.
Rate for referenced or academic work or work by ESL speakers, or writers desiring extensive help with grammar and correctness:
$7 per page ($140 minimum). Bulk discount does not apply.
Legal editing/professional publication editing negotiated separately.
A "page" is 12-point Times Roman font, double-spaced, one-inch margins.
Work is generally emailed, and is returned to the writer by email with comments and edits directly on the document (with "Track Changes," so that the writer may reject or accept the suggestions at will), and with a separate over-all critique.
For the critique/editing service,
contact Karen Moulding directly:
kbm9@columbia.edu or karenmnyc@earthlink.net
About Me
- Karen Moulding
- Karen Moulding’s fiction and poetry have appeared in nerve.com, Fawlt Magazine, the Piedmont Literary Review, Spectrum, and more, and have been anthologized by Chronicle Books (Smut 2, the best of nerve.com), and STARbooks Press. She earned an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University, an MA in English at City College of New York, and, inexplicably, a law degree at Columbia University School of Law. She is Editor of the annually updated legal treatise, Sexual Orientation and the Law. She’s enjoyed Fellowships in fiction from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and has taught fiction at The Writers Voice in New York City, Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and her own living room (the East Village Fiction Workshop). She was Teaching Assistant for the late poet Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. She has read her work at KGB Bar, Cornelia Street Café and other venues in New York City, and at Tongue and Groove (Hotel Café) and Universal Bar and Grill in Los Angeles. She lives in New York City (mostly) and/or Los Angeles and is the single mother of a bizarrely literate and adorably hammy three year old girl named Fin.