First, you’ll fill out a quote request, providing me with key information about you and your manuscript. Upon receiving your request, I’ll contact you with an exact quote for price and delivery time according to your final word count.

Once you confirm by email your agreement upon price and timeline, I’ll send you an invoice for 40% of your order’s total. When I receive your 40% deposit, I’ll ask you to send me a copy of your manuscript in .doc or .docx format by email.

I’ll confirm that I’ve received your manuscript and then my job begins. Once I’ve completed service, I’ll email the applicable deliverables (edited documents, reader report, in-line comments, etc.) to you, along with another invoice for the remaining 60% of your order total.

Payment is due no later than 72 hours after I’ve sent you your deliverables and final invoice, as the date of delivery has priorly been agreed upon (and therefore is not a surprise!)

A deposit of 40% of your order total will be required to initiate service, with the remaining 60% due no later than 72 hours after receiving the deliverables for your order and your final invoice.

For your ease of mind, the deadline for payment will be clearly stated on your final invoice.

Orders for a full-length manuscript normally take 1-2 weeks, so payment organically follows a sort of “payment plan” and increases cost management for your editing process.

Late fee policy: For final payments, a late fee of $50 will be implemented for every 24-hour period past due of the 3-day deadline. After 7 days past due, if no communication is received by me from you, I’ll have no choice but to send the remaining total of 60% and an additional $500 extreme-late fee to collections. (Please don’t make me do this, it would be a major bummer for both of us!)

All communication (invoices, deliverables, etc.) will come by email, from the address: hannah@flood-fiction.com

Anything fiction! I’ve worked with and enjoyed: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery/Thriller, Horror, and Literary Fiction, but am open to any and all genres.

The more the merrier! I’ve worked on manuscripts up to 120k+ words and am not daunted by length, just note that delivery time will likely be closer to three weeks depending on service and my availability.

I hold a BA in English and a double minor in Professional Writing & Presentation Media and Biology from Meredith College.

I’ve been a freelance manuscript editor for four years, working with clients on over 125 full-length manuscripts and 45 additional partial manuscripts and novellas.

My clients include both traditionally published authors and successfully self-published authors, with a number of novels available on shelves in Barnes and Noble and online through Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

Most importantly, I’m a writer myself, having had my own short stories published, so I understand personally, deeply, both sides of the fiction editing process, allowing me to provide the most applicable, informed, and craft-minded feedback and suggestions on your manuscript as possible.

I love books, I love creative writing, and I love what I do!

That’s the beauty of creative writing and your agency as the author, you don’t have to! In fact, it’s encouraged that you don’t.

At the end of the day, my suggested edits and comments are just that: suggestions. None of my services impose permanent changes to your manuscript, but instead are a tool for you to get impartial, third-party feedback from a member of your reader base.

Any form of feedback that I give is subjective and informed by my experience with your manuscript as a reader. For creative feedback services, I give my reactions, opinions, suggestions, and would-like-to-sees as a reader, just as for copy editing, I make edits that I feel improve readability, engagement, clarity, and the overall reading experience as a member of your audience.