Line Editing Services & Pricing Rates | Prime Horizons
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Dedicated Line Editing Services

The Prose Polish (Standard Line Edit)

Perfect for: Writers with a solid draft who want to elevate their storytelling and smooth out their prose.

  • Elevate Your Voice: We polish your unique writing style, ensuring your tone remains consistent and impactful from the first page to the last.
  • Enhance Rhythm & Flow: We reshape awkward sentence structures and smooth out transitions so your readers stay fully immersed in your world.
  • Vivid Word Choice: We replace weak verbs, repetitive phrasing, and clichés with precise, evocative language that brings your scenes to life.

The Manuscript Trimmer (Prose Tightening)

Perfect for: Authors who need to cut fluff, meet specific industry word counts, or speed up slow pacing.

  • Eliminate Redundancy: We cut out fluff, filter words, and repetitive ideas without changing your core message or story.
  • Tighten the Narrative: We transform passive, wordy sentences into crisp, active prose that keeps your story moving forward.
  • Dynamic Dialogue: We sharpen your characters' spoken words, making their conversations sound natural, distinct, and purposeful.

The Masters Package (Line Editing + Technical Copyedit)

Perfect for: Authors preparing for self-publication or agent submissions who want both stylistic beauty and technical precision.

  • Deep Stylistic Polish: We dive deep into sentence-level craftsmanship, optimizing your "show, don't tell" elements and sensory details.
  • Mechanics & Grammar Check: After perfecting the style, we run a thorough copyedit to fix grammar, punctuation, spelling, and syntax errors.
  • Submission Ready: You receive a clean, beautifully polished manuscript that meets professional publishing standards and is ready for readers.

Flexible Pricing Rates & Options

We offer transparent pricing models tailored to your preference, equivalent to a professional baseline rate of $40 per hour.

  • By the Word: $0.04 per word. Ideal for a fixed, locked-in budget based exactly on your document's final word count.
  • By the Standard Page: $10.00 per page. Calculated using the industry-standard framework of 250 words per page.
  • By the Hour: $40.00 per hour. Perfect for custom projects, short revisions, or targeted, spot-checked editing passes.

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