I have been consistently publishing fiction and non-fiction since 1992. I have worked with numerous genre publishers of books and magazines, as well as major houses Bloomsbury and Tor. I have been an award-winning journalist for several newspapers, including The Oklahoman. I spent a few years as a corporate writer for Conoco Inc. prior to the merger with Phillips, writing a newsletter about employee benefits for the human resources department. Following that I was the public relations director for Oklahoma City University, then the South Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce before I became a high school English teacher in 2007 and a college English professor in 2013.
If you have something that needs to be written or edited, I can do it.
My rates are those suggested by the Editorial Freelancers Association and are as follows:
| TYPE OF WORK | ESTIMATED PACE | RANGE OF FEES |
| EDITING | ||
| Basic copyediting | 5–10 ms pgs/hr | $30–40/hr |
| Heavy copyediting | 2–5 ms pgs/hr | $40–50/hr |
| Website copyediting | $40–50/hr | |
| Developmental editing | 1–5 pgs/hr | $45–55/hr |
| Substantive or line editing | 1–6 ms pgs/hr | $40–60/hr |
| MANUSCRIPT EVALUATION | $45–55/hr | |
| PROOFREADING | 9–13 ms pgs/hr | $30–35/hr |
| RESEARCHING | $40-75/hr | |
| TRANSCRIBING | variable | $2.50–$4/audio minute |
| WRITING | 1–3 ms pgs/hr | |
| Fiction | $40–50/hr | |
| 20¢–25¢/wd | ||
| Ghostwriting | $50–60/hr | |
| 26¢–50¢/wd | ||
| Public Relations/Press Releases | $50–60/hr | |
| 30¢–95¢/wd | ||
| Journalism | $40–50/hr | |
| 26¢–50¢/wd | ||
| Nonspecified | $40–100/hr | |
| 20¢-$2/wd | ||
| Technical/Trade | $50–60/hr | |
| 45¢–55¢/wd |
Do you need something that’s not listed here? E-mail me and let’s talk about it.
Steven E. Wedel 