Author Coaching - Single Session
$75/Session
One-on-one support for serious writers who need clarity, accountability, confidence, writing discipline, revision planning, or creative guidance as they work toward completing, revising, or preparing a manuscript.Coaching Paths to choose from:Writing ClarityWriting Discipline and AccountabilityRevision PlanningCreative ConfidencePublishing Path GuidanceAuthor Professionalism
Author Accountability Package
$280 / Package
The Author Accountability Package is a short-term coaching option for writers who need structure, support, and follow-through as they work toward a specific writing goal.
This package is ideal for authors who feel stuck, inconsistent, overwhelmed, or ready to make progress but need guidance and accountability along the way. Across four sessions, we will clarify your writing goals, identify what is getting in the way, create practical action steps, and track your progress so you can keep moving forward with purpose.
Includes:
Four 60-minute coaching sessions
Sessions used within 8 weeks
Writing goal support
Session notes
Accountability steps
Limited email check-ins between sessions
Author Coaching -Revision Planning Intensive
$125
The Revision Planning Intensive is a focused 90-minute strategy session for authors who have feedback, a messy draft, or a completed manuscript and need help creating a clear revision plan.
This session is ideal for writers who feel overwhelmed by what to fix, where to start, or how to organize their next steps. Together, we will discuss your goals, current manuscript status, known concerns, and revision priorities so you can move forward with a practical roadmap.
Includes:
One 90-minute strategy session
Pre-session questionnaire
Discussion of goals and manuscript status
Revision priority plan
Next-step roadmap
Manuscript Evaluation
$.012/word
$250/minimum
The Matter House Manuscript Evaluation provides honest, big-picture editorial feedback for serious authors who want to better understand their manuscript’s strengths, concerns, readiness, and recommended next steps before revision, editing, or publishing preparation.
This service may address structure, pacing, character, voice, genre fit, reader engagement, and manuscript readiness. It does not include editing, proofreading, rewriting, publication, representation, sales guarantees, or acceptance into the Matter House Publishing imprint.
Developmental Editing - Level 1
$.016/word
$500/minimum
Developmental Editing Level 1 is a big-picture manuscript review designed for authors who need honest, detailed feedback and a clear revision path. This service focuses on story structure, pacing, character development, conflict, stakes, theme, reader engagement, genre fit, and overall manuscript effectiveness.
Authors receive a detailed editorial letter that identifies what is working, what needs improvement, and which revision priorities should come first. This option is best for writers who want strong developmental guidance without in-manuscript comments.
Includes: full manuscript read, detailed editorial letter, major strengths and concerns, revision priorities, and recommended next steps.
Developmental Editing - Level 2
$.025/word
$750/minimum
Developmental Editing Level 2 includes everything in Level 1, with the addition of in-manuscript comments for deeper scene-level and chapter-level guidance. This service is best for authors who want detailed developmental feedback throughout the draft, not just in a separate editorial letter.
Authors receive both a comprehensive editorial letter and comments directly within the manuscript to help identify areas that may feel confusing, rushed, underdeveloped, repetitive, slow, unclear, or emotionally disconnected. This option provides more hands-on revision support while still focusing on big-picture manuscript development.
Includes: full manuscript read, detailed editorial letter, manuscript comments, scene/chapter observations, revision priorities, and recommended next steps.
Copy Editing
$.018 - $.026/word
$325/minimum
Copyediting is a technical editing service for complete, structurally settled manuscripts that need grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, consistency, sentence mechanics, basic clarity, and style guide cleanup before formatting, proofreading, submission, or publication preparation.
Copyediting does not include major rewriting, developmental editing, deep line editing, formatting, proofreading after layout, publication, sales guarantees, or acceptance into the Matter House Publishing imprint.
Line Editing
$.025-$.03/word
$375/minimum
Line Editing is a sentence-level editorial service for manuscripts that are structurally sound and ready for prose refinement. This service focuses on clarity, flow, voice, tone, style, word choice, sentence rhythm, dialogue, transitions, and overall readability.
Line editing does not include developmental editing, full rewriting, copyediting as a separate final pass, proofreading, formatting, publication, sales guarantees, or acceptance into the Matter House Publishing imprint.
Proofreading - Manuscript
$.012/word
$200/minimum
Manuscript Proofreading is a final quality-control review for manuscripts that have already been edited and are no longer undergoing major revision. This service focuses on catching remaining typos, misspellings, missing or repeated words, small punctuation issues, minor grammar slips, and consistency concerns before the manuscript moves into formatting, submission, or publication preparation.
This service is best for authors who have a clean, edited manuscript and want one final text-level review before taking the next step.
Includes: proofreading in manuscript format, surface error correction, minor punctuation and grammar fixes, consistency notes when needed, and brief follow-up notes.
Proofreading - Formatted
$.014/word
$300/minimum
Formatted Proofreading is a final review of a designed or formatted book file before publication, printing, or upload. This service checks for remaining text errors as well as formatting concerns such as page numbers, headers, footers, chapter headings, spacing issues, awkward line breaks, and layout inconsistencies.
This service is best for authors whose book has already been edited and formatted and who need a final quality-control pass before release.
Includes: review of a formatted PDF or proof file, typo and surface error checks, layout issue flags, formatting consistency notes, and a correction log or marked file.
