Work with The Centrifugal Eye's Editor-in-Chief, Eve Hanninen,
to make your poetry and prose its best.
HANNINEN FREELANCE Editing
Fiction Novels & Stories
Non-Fiction Books & Articles
Bookcover & Editorial Illustration
Specializing in Poetry Collections & Literary Journal/Award Submissions
Have Questions about My Editing Process?
You should find some of your answers right here in the FAQ. If you don't find the information you're looking for here or elsewhere on the site, please send me a query.
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Why should I hire an editor? Don't publishers provide their own editors?
Many of the largest publishing houses employ acquisition editors who are in search of a few fantastic manuscripts to publish. Some acquisition editors are also developmental and/or content editors and so might be willing to review unpolished, commercial or literary manuscripts that are extremely promising. Yet, most house editors prefer to select from manuscripts that are already edited for consistency. It makes the stories or articles or poems stand out at their best. And it definitely makes these editors' jobs easier. Smaller publishers may not have content editors or copyeditors on staff. These publishers will want to see manuscripts that have been previously edited before being submitted.
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You should hire an editor for your manuscript if you do not have much editing experience yourself.
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You should hire an editor to look for the things you may have missed during your subsequent drafts and revisions.
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You should hire an editor to help you produce your strongest and most consistent work.
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What's the average turnaround on an editing job?
As nice as it would be to be able to give a time-limit for general jobs, there are too many variables involved in estimating each project to make that realistic. This is why making an evaluation from samples of your specific project is necessary before a period range can be determined. If you are working to a deadline, though, please make sure to discuss your needs with me before I make my evaluation; this will help me to try to accommodate your own schedules, as well as mine.
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Do you proofread?
I do general proofreading when copyediting, but I do not offer final proofreading services separately from editing services. I am, however, meticulous in my line editing. Still, your final manuscript will be its sharpest if you employ a professional proofreader for a last scan for errors after it has been copyedited. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, your publisher and its staff may offer further editing and/or proofreading to bring the formatting within their house-style preferences.
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Isn't copyediting and proofreading the same thing?
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No. A proofreader is not an editor, and vice versa. A proofreader looks for punctuation errors, stray spaces, typographical transpositions, missing words, etc. The proofer is not authorized to make grammatical corrections and other content changes. If the proofer has a question about content, he or she must go back to the copyeditor and/or content editor for confirmation.
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What forms of payment do you accept?
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For internationaI clients I transact online through PayPal. You can choose to pay your deposit and balance via your preferred methods using PayPal, whether that's paying with your PayPal account balance, your debit card, or credit card. PayPal is safe and reliable. I have used them for online transacting for 17 years.
If you live in Canada, you may alternatively choose to pay via online/Interac banking.
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When do I pay for your editing services?
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A deposit for half of the project estimate is due after manuscript evaluations are made and you agree to contract my services. Work will commence when deposit payment clears into my account. We may agree to working in installments or to a lump sum. I will give you an email payment address and request payment with your signed agreement.
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Why do you charge by the page instead of hourly?
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I do charge hourly, as well as by page range. Many clients have trouble translating how much work might be edited on a per hour basis, and the hourly rate standards in North America sound expensive to those who are unfamiliar with the amount of work involved or the speed at which most editors work. This is why I break down the hourly rate into equivalent page ranges for different types of editing on my rates webpage. My page rates are industry standards and they also work out to an hourly standard. I am comfortable quoting you an estimate for hourly work if you are more familiar with hourly terms than page rates.
To better understand the number of pages quoted in a range, look at the range as a scale: Fewer pages per dollar amount represent pages requiring the heaviest amount of corrections or revisions, or the reading may be technical and dense, for example. The highest number of pages listed in a range represent manuscript pages that need little to no revision, or the content is light and can be read quickly.