Book Doctor ~ Editor
Anita D. McClellan
From concept into print since 1988



The Process

Work with me from anywhere using Word's Track Changes. No lost packages or shipping charges: Deliver material online by email.

I am creative, insightful, a quick study, deadline driven, and market savvy.
• I shorten your priority list by delivering what you need on time and on budget.
• I ask the right questions at the outset to grasp it the first time.
• I absorb your materials and do any required research to produce it.
• I am a nimble thinker who can shift gears easily based on your needs.
• I focus on what your audience needs to hear.
• I craft a product that meets your expectations and that pleases you.

Send an email (no attachments!) on Subject Line "New Project" with description, project start and end, any special issues or requirements, primary contact name, affiliation, telephone, fax. Or, email your opening 2500 words in the body of the message with your contact information (Subject line: "TryMeOut65"; this service is prepaid).

I will work with you by email, fax, in person, telephone, courier. Pay in US funds on a US bank online using credit card, check or money order, bank wire. All projects are guaranteed and held in strict confidentiality.

• I require prepaid deposit from all new clients. Project fees include research, thinking time, hands-on time; expenses include courier, printouts, copies, postage, toll calls, on-site work, travel, lodging. Jobs assigned within 48 hours or less from deadline incur rush fee at least 25% of total project cost, including jobs assigned Thursday or Friday for delivery Monday or Tuesday.
• If job is reconfigured after I start work, written project agreement and fee will be renegotiated.
• If job is cancelled mid-project, I am entitled to full payment for all time spent up to my receipt of notice of cancellation.
• If project is killed any time following completion of my work, I am entitled to full payment of my project fee.
• Hereby be notified and advised that acceptance of any check in partial payment marked "final" or with any restrictive endorsement is merely deposited as a partial payment on account; such acceptance does not constitute an accord and satisfaction or our waiver of the right to balance in full for any account due and owing.
• All writing projects include two rounds of minor revisions; additional revisions charged at hourly rate.
• Final balance in hand on delivery of completed project.

Copyright © 2005-2008 Anita D. McClellan Associates, 464 Common St., Suite 142, Belmont, MA 02478 USA; www.anitamcclellan.com; adm at anitamcclellan dot com; (888) 270-6950 by appointment (email, don't phone). All rights reserved. Literary consultancy only.




Find Authors



Q.: "What do you look for in authors beyond the quality of their manuscripts?"
A.: "Isn't that enough?" --J. Galassi, publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Got (unsigned) agent agreement? book contract?

Wonder if your book manuscript or proposal is submission ready?


We deliver
• industry-savvy contract vetting via email, fax, or courier at less than intellectual-property attorney's fees

• text-grounded editorial feedback based on commercial, scholarly book publishers' and literary agents' expectations of market-ready fiction and nonfiction for juveniles and adults

• help to deconstruct publishers' or agents' editorial and market judgments

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