I offer critiques of fiction, imaginative non-fiction, poetry and scripts but, at present, I am unable to accept full-length manuscripts of book length because of a heavy workload. I can, however, see a few students in North London for one-to-one tutorials.

PROVIDING HARD COPY
It will be up to the student to provide the paginated hard copy for editing. This is preferable to receiving text in email attachments and is less expensive because of the additional cost involved for paper, ink and reformatting (see below).

PROVIDING TEXT BY EMAIL

I prefer to receive hard text as it is more cost effective for the student. However, if you want me to print off email attachments of your work, there will be a charge of 10 pence per page, plus reformatting and editorial time. I use AppleWorks and each Word document sent must be reformatted and this time is chargeable. I prefer not to edit on screen because it is more time consuming and, therefore, more costly to the student. However, if you have an imminent deadline for a competition, say, I will consider this, but you would need to speak to me first.

TUTORIALS
Charge: £40 per hour/£20 per half hour. As editorial work can be labour intensive, editing pages in preparation for a tutorial are chargeable. At our first meeting, you may prefer to bring a an excerpt from a chapter or your synopsis which I can go through with you, sight unseen, so you can have a better understanding of the editorial process.

JUNE 2008