Editorial Services
Are you producing written content within the realms of housing and community development? Do you need some help making it easy to read, impeccably copyedited, and stylistically consistent?
Shelterforce is excited to introduce an opportunity for the affordable housing and community development sectors to establish an editorial partnership with our skilled staff. Whether you are creating reports, books, papers, or other content, leverage the expertise of Shelterforce’s seasoned editors to ensure your message resonates with crystal-clear clarity for your audience.
Our services are summarized below, and described in more detail in this guide.
Interested?
If you are interested in any of our services, or have questions about them, please reach out to us through the contact form below. Let us know about the nature and timeline of your project if you have one in mind.
Current Menu of Services
Copyediting
Fact-checking, clarity, grammar, punctuation, and style.
Pricing:
$100/1,000 words.
Project Parameters:
Minimum project size 10,000 words. (Multiproject contracts that include several shorter pieces OK.)
Academic Adaptation
Transformation of complex academic content into accessible formats suitable for a lay audience.
Pricing:
$200-400/1,000 words, based on complexity. Send a sample for a quote.
Project Parameters:
Minimum project size 15,000 words.
Developmental Editing
Evaluation and feedback on an early draft, with an eye to content flow, organization, support for arguments, and storyline.
Help with cutting down overly long texts.
Pricing:
$200-400/1,000 words, based on complexity. Send a sample for a quote.
Project Parameters:
Minimum project size 15,000 words.
Editorial Consultation
Discussion of research findings, meeting minutes, or other material, along with your editorial goals.
Help to identify themes for editorial content such as op-eds, blog posts, calls to action, or pitches to media.
Pricing:
$100/hour.
Editorial Services Inquiry
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