Book editor Kristen Hamilton is the owner and sole employee of Kristen Corrects, Inc., where she provides manuscript editing services for self-publishing and traditionally publishing authors. Several authors whose books she has edited have won awards and have topped Amazon's best sellers lists. Reading is Kristen’s passion, so when the workday is over, she can usually be found curled up with a good book alongside her three cats. In her free time she enjoys playing video games, dancing adult ballet, speaking French, watching scary movies, tending to her courtyard, and traveling to tropical destinations. She lives with her husband and sons outside of Boise, Idaho.
How much does book editing cost? The Editorial Freelancers Association’s Editorial Rates Chart is the gold standard for how much editing should cost. The EFA’s rates (originally from 2015) were displayed in hourly rates, which I converted to my standard per-word rate. But with the EFA’s updated… Read More »How Much Should Editing Cost?
You’ve finally finished writing your novel manuscript…now what? The writing process can be arduous and long, but fun. After starting with an idea, you develop your idea into an outline, an outline into a plot, and a plot into a fully functional novel. Success! Though… Read More »4 Things Every Writer Must Do Before Publishing
There’s a lot of helpful info in here! Please read this page in full to find out more about the editing process. (Still have questions? Contact me!) Order of Editing Each of my editing services are very different from one another, and therefore require separate edits. It’s impossible… Read More »Working with Kristen Corrects: Tips and Tricks
Many of my clients start with a manuscript critique, a process in which I read your entire manuscript to get a feel for its potential for success. The deliverable is an evaluation report (generally about 10 pages) in which I point out any issues in: In… Read More »Manuscript Critique
In my first chapter critique service, I read your book’s first chapter (up to 4,000 words), adding comments for suggestion/improvement along the way. I focus on areas of confusing or vague writing, inconsistencies, or issues that I have as a first-time reader, and big-picture issues with your story’s conflict,… Read More »First Chapter Critique
Developmental editing is a high-level evaluation, one step above a manuscript critique, with a focus on the book as a whole. In this process, I read your entire manuscript to get a feel for its potential for success, adding comments with specific advice and feedback… Read More »Developmental Editing
Line editing focuses on improving sentence structure, looking at the logic and clarity of scenes, maintaining consistency, rhythm of sentences, and breaking up too-long paragraphs. It makes sure, for example, that each character has consistent actions, or that the spelling of a name or place doesn’t… Read More »Line Editing
Copyediting is the last step in the editing process before publishing. It focuses mainly on word choice, punctuation, spelling, syntax, and grammar, and is essentially a final read-through to make sure your book doesn’t have any surface errors. Copyediting focuses on fixing: My copyediting service does not focus… Read More »Copyediting
Ever since Amazon released Kindle Direct Publishing in 2007, the book publishing landscape has drastically changed. Now a decade later, authors have more power in their hands than ever, with self-published and independent authors earning approximately 40% of the market share. Where once the Big… Read More »Self-Publishing, Independent Publishing, and Traditional Publishing: Which is Best?
Dialogue tags! These little monsters can sometimes be tricky, but you can’t avoid them: Dialogue should make up about 20% of your novel. When approaching the subject of dialogue and dialogue tags, there are a few things that should be kept in mind in order… Read More »5 Essential Rules of Writing Powerful Dialogue