FAQ

Booking Your Appointment

Refunds

Due to the nature of our digital products and subscriptions, we do not offer refunds of any kind for any fulfilled service or delivered product. If you are unhappy with your service, please contact Devon to make it right. You can usually find them in Messenger or email them at devon.vesper@gmail.com.

All sales are final.

If you have secured a service appointment with a booking fee, booking fees are non-refundable unless Devon cancels. If you don't cancel or reschedule at least ten business days of your scheduled appointment, you forfeit the booking fee and must remit another booking fee to reschedule your appointment.

If Devon cancels, you will receive a full refund unless it is for something you did not warn them about, such as trigger warnings.

Holiday Tax

Devon understands emergencies. If you need them to pull extra time on holidays, e.g. certain bank holidays, or their marked holy days, they are more than willing to accommodate you for a fee of $80 per day. This fee is on top of the fee for the service you are purchasing and the rush fee.

Rush Fees

Normal rates are 14 Business Days. Anything under 14 business days is subject to a rush fee added to your total. The base rush fee is 15% of your total full editing cost. Added to that cost is the following per-word fee.

15 Business Days +$0.001 per word

10 Business Days +$0.002 per word

5 Business Days +$0.004 per word

3 or Fewer Business Days +$0.01 per word

Priority Rates

Need to see if I have any cancellations because you’re in a hurry? Here’s how. Note that this is in addition to rush rates if you need your edits back sooner than 14 business days.

Priority—You want Devon to keep you on a cancellation list for a week to see if anything opens up.

  • + $80 added to your total

Emergency—You need it right now, and you need Devon to temporarily set aside a current client to focus on your book. This incurs rush rates per the FAQ above, as well as the emergency fee.

  • + 150% of your total

General Information

Triggers

I do not offer covers or cover services.

However, here are my recommendations:

Katie Griffin

  • Professional

  • Has done covers for Honor Raconteur/AJ Sherwood

  • Wonderful, kind person

  • Studied Fine Arts—Painting & Sculpture at Gordon College

  • Her portfolio

  • Price: $500

GetCovers

  • Unlimited revisions—they don’t stop until you’re happy

  • eBook + Print for $35, which includes the source file

  • 100% Money Back Guarantee

  • Ask Devon for help writing up your Designer Brief to get the cover you’re envisioning. Devon can help ensure you have a ready-to-go brief to give your GetCovers designer while still giving the artist artistic license to make things awesome. We understand that designers who have fun and are given meaningful choices make. better art. We’ll help you straddle the line between word-vomit and vague. ($80.)

Editing

Developmental Editing

$15 per hour with a 1-hour minimum.

Developmental Editing is where you come to me with an idea, some plot points, and I help you develop the story by asking questions, giving suggestions, and helping you put it all together into a cohesive series plot, book 1 plot, and book 1 outline so you can hit the ground running, writing like the badass you are.

Alpha Reading

$0.005/word or $5/1000 words.

This is where I read through your unedited book to tell you:

  • What I liked and why.

  • What I didn’t like and why.

  • What I think would make the story stronger.

  • Things I think should be cut.

  • Glaring things story-wise that need addressed such as plot holes.

I will NOT tell you:

  • Grammar, syntax, punctuation, missing or misused words, or other copy editing errors.

  • Fixes for sentence structure or readability.

  • Fact checking.

For this, your book does NOT have to be edited or even finished. If your book is finished and self-edited, you’ll benefit more from Beta Reading.

Beta Reading

$0.004/word or $4/1000 words.

This is where I read through your book to tell you:

  • What I liked and why.

  • What I didn’t like and why.

  • What I think would make the story stronger.

  • Things I think should be cut, and why.

  • Glaring things story-wise that need addressed such as plot holes.

I will NOT tell you:

  • Grammar, syntax, punctuation, missing or misused words, or other copy editing errors.

  • Fixes for sentence structure or readability.

  • Fact checking

Note that beta reading gets self-edited, finished books. If you have not yet edited or finished your books, you need alpha reading.

Content Editing

$0.02 per word with a 30,000-word minimum.

This is what developmental editing normally consists of:

  • Noting plot holes

  • Hand-smacking for overuse of exposition

  • Reality checks (Physics is a thing. Do the thing.)

  • Hand-waving checks (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t)

  • Checks for emotions matching the actions

  • Random llama checks (ie. things that stick out like a sore thumb / things that don’t belong)

  • “Where’d it go?” checks (the case of the missing dog/best friend/side character/etc.)

  • Constructive commentary on parts that work exceptionally well, and parts that don’t work at all, and why.

  • Ideas on how to fix the issues we found.

  • Any checks you specifically ask for (apart from grammar, punctuation and other line/copy editing stuffs)

  • A week of email support when you start edits after I return my notes and editor’s report to you.

Copy Editing

$0.01 per word. 30,000-word minimum.

  • Grammar

  • Spelling

  • Capitalization

  • Punctuation

  • Syntax

  • Light line edits *

* Line edits consist of restructuring hard to understand sentences to address concerns regarding readability, understandability, and incorrect sentence structures.

Proofreading

$0.006 per word. 30,000-word minimum.

Here, proofreading consists of going over your manuscript for things your copy editor missed with grammar, capitalization, etc. plus anything glaring in the story that might need addressed.

If Devon notices it does not look like you had the manuscript copy edited, Devon will contact you with copy edit rates and provide examples as to why they are changing your contract. You have the option of canceling with Devon and taking it up with your copy editor, or having Devon continue in a copy editor capacity.

Audiobook Proofing

$0.45 per minute.

Devon is nit-picky and anal retentive. They go through audio quickly noting sound quality changes, mispronounced words, audio errors, and narrator mistakes.

Please allow a two-week minimum turnaround time.

Formatting

NOTE before you get started: Vellum is ONLY available for Fiction and simple Nonfiction formatting. If you have a Nonfiction book with complicated table of contents or other complicated formatting needs, it is beyond the scope of Vellum.FICTION AND SIMPLE NONFICTION ONLY

Vellum is a formatting software that enables your formatter to format your book in under half an hour with gorgeous, pre-built styling options. (See below.) They then send your files back to you either same day or the next so you can easily and quickly make any changes your manuscript needs. However, it’s limited in what it can do.

Per book: $65

Per Boxed Set of 1-3 books: $95 (plus $5-$10 for each additional book)

Per Boxed Set (If we have previously formatted your individual books): $75 total as it’s mostly drag and drop existing files into a new document and making it pretty.

This includes: epub, mobi, and print-ready PDF file

Default Graphics

Vellum comes with different styles, each with customizable headers, ornamental breaks, etc. You have a choice of pre-selected styles, each with their own default graphics. If you do not like a style, you can change it to another default style at no extra charge.

Custom Graphics

This means chapter heading images, ornamental scene breaks, etc.

  • If you want custom and you supply the images, it’s $15 added to your final cost.

  • If you want me to create the images but you are supplying the stock links from Depositphotos.com, it’s $50 added to your final cost.

  • If you want me to create the images but I have to find the stock, it’s $100 added to your final cost.

Payments

Zelle

Devon prefers payment via Zelle®. They will also take PayPal, but with an extra 6% fee to cover PayPal’s fees.

To pay via Zelle®, Devon will send you a request once they have your Zelle®-linked phone number or email address.

PayPal & Venmo

While Devon prefers Zelle®, PayPal or Venmo is always available. There is an extra 6% charge to cover payment processing fees.

Series Bibles

$35 per book.

I have a spreadsheet made. You can either purchase the spreadsheet for $15 or hire me to read each book and fill out the spreadsheet for you.