At Rachelle Ramirez Editorial Services, LLC, I help writers tell better stories by performing content, structural, and developmental editing in all genres of fiction and nonfiction. I specialize in editing manuscripts such as memoir, self-help, how-to, business, and hybrids of these types of books. I am available for special projects in need of line editing. I do not perform copyediting or proofreading services.
With over a decade of editing experience, editor certification training, and master’s level training in psychology and writing, I am prepared to help writers complete their projects within reasonable timeframes while reducing the stress associated with large creative projects. I provide manageable and actionable next-steps suggestions to help writers prepare their manuscripts for publication.
If you work with me, you’ll get specific and prompt completion dates for your project, and you’ll know exactly what you’re signing up for before you pay for services. Because I know what it’s like to be taken advantage of by an editor, I’ve worked with a team of certified editors, a business coach, and a marketing coach to develop an editing practice that maximizes the value you’ll receive.
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Are you stuck with your writing
and not sure what to do next?
Schedule a reduced rate ($79) phone or Zoom consultation and we’ll discuss your work, what you’re hoping to accomplish, and where I can help. Ask me anything and I won’t hold information back in hopes of selling editing services to you later. Get advice or simply use the session to brainstorm. Your work is worth it and there are no strings attached.
To schedule your one-time reduced rate call,
grab a spot on my calendar
Do you already have a manuscript?
Have you finished a story (or half of one) and want help evaluating your manuscript for structure and publication? I’m specially trained to help you. I’ll read your manuscript cover to cover and put it through rigorous analysis. You’ll receive:
1. The Editor’s Essential Questions Analysis answers the questions all good editors ask when evaluating a manuscript. This is generally an 8 to 20-page document filled with the information you can use to propel your manuscript to the next level.
2. A One-Hour Phone or Zoom Chat Consultation recorded and delivered to you for referencing the information in the future. We’ll go over the Editor’s Essential Questions Analysis, recommendations for your next steps, and answer any questions you may have.
3. A Ten-Scene Analysis is a close look at individual scenes for how and why they work and what needs improving. I use an improved version of the remarkable spreadsheet, developed by Shawn Coyne of the Story Grid, which you can apply to the rest of your manuscript to DRAMATICALLY simplify the editing process.
4. Your Recommendations Letter is a detailed account of what to do next to take your manuscript to the next level. This is a 3 to 5-page document in which I provide actionable and manageable suggestions for your next several drafts. This is in addition to the Editor’s Essential Question Analysis.
5. Example Recommendations for Your Story Type: these are three or more stories you can study and analyze to master your Story Type and compare your work to in order to improve your writing.
6. Bonus Customized Resources that I identify for meeting your specific needs as a writer.
7. Bonus One-Hour Phone or Zoom Chat Consultation recorded and delivered to you for referencing the information in the future. We’ll get together about two weeks after our initial call and your receipt of my initial feedback to again answer any questions you may have and to further tailor your next steps.
The Basic Manuscript Package
(manuscripts up to 85,000 words) is $2450.
Please contact me, to determine my availability and project dates, and then select a package based on the word count of your manuscript:
Up to 85,000 words $2,450.00 USD
Up to 95,000 words $2,550.00 USD
Up to 105,000 words $2,650.00 USD
Up to 115,000 words $2,750.00 USD
Up to 125,000 words $2,850.00 USD
Up to 135,000 words $2,950.00 USD
After purchasing, please send your manuscript as a Google Doc here and schedule your call (about 30 days in advance) on my calendar.
Need help finishing your story?
Are you stuck on your novel and not sure what to do next? Do you need help finishing a working first draft of a memoir or another nonfiction story? I’ll help you get “unstuck” and move toward finishing your novel or nonfiction manuscript. I’ll help you analyze your writing, figure out what to do next, and hold you accountable to a writing schedule. Together, we’ll develop a plan for your book that satisfies readers in your chosen genre.
A One-Hour Consultation Call is $225.
Includes reading and analyzing up to two scenes (4500 total words).
Bundle One-Hour Weekly Calls
(after First-Time Call, 4 consecutive weeks) at $850.
Includes reading and analyzing up to two scenes
(4500 total words) per week.
After purchasing, please schedule your call(s) on my calendar.
Need an outline or synopsis evaluation?
This is an excellent low-cost alternative to a full manuscript evaluation to determine if your story meets the basic requirements of your Story Type and/or genre and whether you have a completed and interesting character change arc with progressive complications and a satisfying ending. I’ll spend considerable time evaluating your story before our consultation call.
A Synopsis or Outline Evaluation is $425.
Includes reading and analyzing up to 4000 words,
plus a one-hour consultation call.
After purchasing, please send your
Query or Synopsis as a Google Doc here
and schedule your call(s) on my calendar.
Need a short story, speech, or article evaluated and edited?
Evaluations begin at $375.
(Up to 5k words. $25 each additional 1k words)
Includes reading, analysis, and a one-hour consultation call.
After purchasing, please send your document here
and schedule your call on my calendar.
Need your story line-edited?
Line editing services are .05 per word after a Basic Editing Package.
Sorry, I do not perform line editing services on new manuscripts.
Please contact me to determine my availability for your project dates.
Don’t see the service you’re looking for?
Need a customized editing package?
Contact me and we can discuss how I can meet your needs.
Please note:
*Due to the already low price per value of my services, I do not apply additional discounts to the services listed above.
*I do not provide copyediting or proofreading services.
Testimonials:
“Thank you, Rachelle… You’ve helped expand my mind into the possibilities of this genre. As usual, the more I learn about the Story Grid the more I realize there is still so much to know.” Sheryl Gwyther, Australian children’s author (novels, short stories, plays). Her historical adventure novel, SWEET ADVERSITY will be out in July of 2018.
Contact Rachelle Ramirez
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Hi, Rachelle– Thank you so much for the Secrets of Status Story Grid article. I’m trying to find obligatory scenes and conventions for other genres, including Love, Coming of Age, Performance and Society / Women / Domestic. Have you done a breakdown for these as well? I purchased and read Shawn Coyne’s excellent book, The Story Grid, in which he inexplicably left out this critical information on most of the genres. I’ve spent a day trying to find obligatory scene and convention lists. (Have found a good but partial breakdown of Love by Steven Pressfield). Any help you can give would be deeply appreciated. I’m a writer, using this information to get a story “unstuck” and completed.
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Hello Annette,
Yes, Shawn left the obligatory scenes and conventions of each genre out of the original Story Grid book because he didn’t have them himself yet. It takes a lot of time to read within a genre and break down what all the working books have in common and distill it into short sentences and an easy to read format. It looks like you have a lot of genres on your list. Have you used the Story Grid book to narrow down your genres to one internal genre and one external genre? The good news is that you only need to meet the conventions and obligatory scenes of your primary genre, not the secondary one. Do you know what that primary genre is yet? Or are you trying to use the conventions and obligatory scenes of the genres to reveal which genre you’ve been writing in? If you need help figuring it out, please keep in mind that I do free 30 Minute consultation calls. You can email me to request a time slot. We could narrow down genre pretty quick. In the meantime, here is a link to the Secrets of the Society Genre I wrote: http://www.storygrid.com/secrets-society-genre/
I will have a Secrets of the Worldview Genre out on Friday, March 30th, 2018 on the Story Grid Website. The next genre I will tackle for you is Performance. That blog post will come out sometime in April of 2018. I only get my turn for a blog post every 4 to 6 weeks so I understand how that might feel like you’re drip feeding the information.
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Dear Rachelle,
It is 3pm here and we are meeting today in 4,5 hours at 10.30am your time. Please send me your skype name, I have no other way of contacting you.
I snt you an email with an attachemnet of a short overview of the 10 stages of the Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock and a one liner from me at each stage how I would apply that to my story.
I would like to have a chat more about the genre article you wrote and how I can name/apply all the genre elements to my story.
Look forward to hearingyoru skype name from you very soon.
best regards
Catharina -
Hi Rachelle,
I have written you an email from my email address info@champagnequeens.com to your contact link above. It is possible that it may land up in your spam filter so here a short follow up. In the email I give some background about myself, my planned book and that I should like a 30 minute consultation with you,Looking forward to hear from you.
kind regards
Catharina Honig
The Netherlands
Skye name catharina.honig GMT(london time) + 1 hr
“Rachelle was both professional and down-to-earth as well as exceedingly helpful and knowledgeable. She totally demystified the genre question for my current manuscript. Do it – you won’t regret it!! Thank you, Rachelle!” Beverly Lyle Patt, Author of Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook in stores now.