Editing services & pricing

*Disclaimer: Please note that the services we offer are all self taught with much hard work. We also offer recommendations for fully qualified editors if that is what you are after. Our goal as a business is to offer an affordable but efficient solution for authors to publish their book. We do not condone, nor use any type of AI in our services. We are determined to deliver a satisfactory service using our own brains and skillsets!  

Thank you.

Manuscript sample evaluation

First chapter review
$60
  • This Service Includes:
  •  A readthrough of the first chapter of your manuscript to determine our willingness to publish it.
  • Critiques and suggested edits to the sample chapter.

In house Developmental Edit

Pricing may vary
$40/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • A complete read through of your manuscript.
  • Story stucture critiques and edits: Structural commentary on story themes, characterisation, and narrative arcs.

In house Copyedit

Pricing may vary
$45/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • A complete read through and edit of your manuscript.
  • Grammatical and punctuation edits.
  • Edits and critiques of writing flow and quality.

In house editing package

Pricing may vary
$65/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • A complete read through of your manuscript.
  • Story stucture critiques and edits: Structural commentary on story themes, characterisation, writing flow and quality, and narrative arcs.
  • Grammatical and punctuation edits.

Design services & pricing

Cover Design review

Pre-done cover design
$40/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • A technical edit of a pre designed cover art. Eg: adding text design.
  • Touch ups and structural edits for required book size and type.

Full Cover design

Pricing may vary
$55/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • A complete cover design from scratch.
  • Provided in PDF, PNG and JPEG files (Print and Ebook ready).

PDF Format

Full manuscript
$45/hour
  • This Service Includes:
  • Your raw manuscript structured in “indesign” to a printable file and format.
  • OR
  • Your raw or PDF manuscript structured into an ebook and uploaded to “Kindle” and “ibooks”.

Publishing services & pricing (what we take)

*Please note that to publish through us, we must first review a sample of your manuscript before we accept.

Publishing Name

Have our name on your book
Printing/Cost
  • This Service Includes:
  • “Disappearing Ink” name and logo printed in your book.
  • Your book added to our catalogue and marketing.
  • Printing organised but not paid for.
  • ISBN cost covered.
  • We take 40% of your book sales.

Book distribution

Pricing may vary
You get:60%/sale profit
  • This Service Includes:
  • *Everything in “Publishing Name”
  • We distrubute your book to stores.
  • We sell your book at events.
  • Uploaded to “Kindle” and “ibooks”.
  • We take 40% of your book sales profit.