OUR SERVICES

“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” -Susan Statham

WHAT WE OFFER

Castle Lyon Editing offers manuscript packages for authors of all genres. With a passion for the written word, we take the time to understand every aspect of you and your message, whether you are writing a speech, sharing your life’s story, or building an entire world or kingdom from scratch. We handle every page of your book with precise attention to detail, placing each part of your story in the most solid, powerful way possible. Your end result is a polished manuscript that communicates your ideas so powerfully that agents, publishers, and readers can’t put it down.

“Good writing is rewriting.” -Truman Capote

WHAT MAKES CASTLE LYON DIFFERENT

All services include a comprehensive second review of your entire project. All services include a comprehensive second review of your entire project. At Castle Lyon Editing, we believe this is the most powerful step in our process and what sets us apart as the best choice for you and your manuscript. Most editors review your work, send you suggestions, and then wish you the best, rarely providing this high-level service. But, after working with so many authors on a wide range of projects, we know the difference that a final comprehensive review makes to the quality and impact of your story.

“Hannah was able to find errors that three New York editors from top publishing companies missed. She has made my book so much better. I love the difference she’s made.”

— Jeffery Olsen INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER AND AUTHOR OF “KNOWING”

The Castle Lyon Process

Step 1: Every page receives comprehensive editing, which includes both line edits AND content edits.

Line edits include: grammatical errors, sentence structure review, punctuation errors, chapter formatting, paragraph analysis, spelling errors, and overall polishing of content
Content edits include: overall story flow evaluation, overall reader comprehension, overall character arcs, overall reader attention, review of plot holes, extraneous text, and missing vital story elements

This process ensures that we efficiently address the small details and big picture content items concurrently, so you can be confident that your project receives our attention and that your hard work as an author is preserved during the editing process. Ultimately, it produces a higher quality, polished manuscript, ready to go to an agent or publishing house.

Step 2: Whether you prefer to follow along with chapter by chapter edits, or choose to wait until the final review of your entire project, you have complete oversight on all recommended changes. This includes adding, changing, and deleting content as suggested by Castle Lyon Editing. Simply jump onto the online editing copy of your manuscript to review suggested changes, respond with any questions, or leave comments of your own on your own schedule.

Step 3: After you have reviewed all of our comprehensive edits, we will conduct a second overall review of your manuscript, including recently implemented changes for a second time to ensure that everything flows smoothly, is properly formatted, and is polished and ready for publication.

Package One

Memoir, Autobiography, Self-Help, How-To Authors (Horror and Romance genres may be included here): 21-79k words

Services Include:

Comprehensive edits on all written chapters as submitted by the start date.
Comprehensive edits on chapter summaries, book outlines, book proposals, and pitch letters
Access to your editing team for Q&A and brainstorming via text, email, or phone call regarding any ongoing edits. All concerns responded to within 48 hours (except holidays and weekends)
Midpoint strategy session: after initial comprehensive edits are completed, we’ll schedule a 1 hour phone call to review strengths and weaknesses of the project before we begin the second edit review

Package Starts at $3500
w/ average duration of 3 months

Package Two

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, General Fiction (includes series):
80-120k words

Services Include:

Comprehensive edits on all written chapters as submitted by the start date.
Comprehensive edits on chapter summaries, book outlines, book proposals, and pitch letters
Access to your editing team for Q&A and brainstorming via text, email, or phone call regarding any ongoing edits. All concerns responded to within 48 hours (except holidays and weekends)
Midpoint strategy session: after initial comprehensive edits are completed, we’ll schedule a 1 hour phone call to review strengths and weaknesses of the project before we begin the second edit review

Package starts at $6700
w/ average duration of 5 months

Package Three

Children’s Books (fiction or nonfiction):

Includes board books (ages 0-5) of 100-1,000 words

Chapter books (ages 6-10) of 2k-20k words

Services Include:

Comprehensive edits on all written chapters as submitted by the start date.
Comprehensive edits on chapter summaries, book outlines, book proposals, and pitch letters
Access to your editing team for Q&A and brainstorming via text, email, or phone call regarding any ongoing edits. All concerns responded to within 48 hours (except holidays and weekends)
Midpoint strategy session: after initial comprehensive edits are completed, we’ll schedule a 1 hour phone call to review strengths and weaknesses of the project before we begin the second edit review

For board books: $500 (with $250 non-refundable down payment)

For chapter books: $2250 (with $250 non-refundable down payment)

w/ average duration of 2-3 months

We recommend reserving your editing slot with a minimum $500 deposit. It may be applied to any of our packages within 12 months of the deposit date. Deposit is non-refundable if services have not started within the 12 month timeframe. Please inquire for details.