How To Find An Editor Using Elance
How To Find An Editor Using Elance Sites like Elance & Odesk are a great place to find an editor that will do great work for great price. To learn how to hire an editor on Elance, check out the video below.
Click here to watch the video. That’s how you post to elance for an editor. Pretty simple, huh?
Elance Posting Template Below is a template you can use for your posting. Subject: Editor Needed For ___ Book Body: “I'm looking for someone with good English & literary skills to do the content and copy edit for my book. The book has already been through a couple selfediting phases but this is the final edit before the the book will be published on Amazon in a few weeks. The book is a ___ book that talks about ____. As far as the editing goes, I’m on a pretty short deadline so I need someone who can work quickly and focus attention on this project over the next 2 weeks. I need the content and copy edits completed by ____(insert date 2 weeks out). The book is ____ words, ___ chapters, & ___ pages. I'm looking for someone with editing experience and with interest in this type of book. I'm working on this book with proven best sellers so this will be great exposure for you and your work. If you're interested in the project, submit a proposal with why you're interested & your price. Also, please include the phrase "purple cow" at the top of your bid. If you have any questions, just let me know!”
This is a basic template for you to use. Feel free to tweak and change as needed.
After You Post Once you post, it’ll take a couple days to get some proposals. Within 2 days, you’ll have enough proposals to make a hire. Go through and pick the best one & award them the job. Get them what they need to get started. Then...go ahead and set a deadline for them to get back the first “content edit”. This deadline should be 3 or so days out. In order to hit your 2 week deadline for editing, the process should look like this: Day 1: Hire the editor & get them started Day 13: Editor does first content edit Day 46: You make content changes Day 710: Editor does final content edit/beginning copy edit Day 1112: You approve changes & make final tweaks Day 1314: Editor does final readthrough & copy edit As you see here, you’ll go back & forth with your editor a maximum of 3 times. This will be PLENTY...as long as you’ve taken some time to do the verbal read through & and a little self editing. PRO TIP: When you’re working with an editor, make sure you both use “track changes” inside Microsoft Word or Google docs. This will allow you both to see each and every change made so that you can approve or deny them. Most good editors will know this, but I wanted to throw this in here just in case.
An Example Of A Good Proposal Below is an example of a proposal we got for Breaking Out Of A Broken System. We chose this person to edit our book (even though she was one of the highest prices) because of her specific examples of how she’s worked on projects like ours in the past and because she expressed a special interest in our project. IMPORTANT NOTE: This price is much more than you should pay for an editor. The only reason this was so expensive was because the formatting of the book was very different & the book was long. It was 38,000 words. We paid less than $300 to get The Productive Person edited.
Please let us know if you have any questions throughout this process! You’re getting closer and closer to publishing your book. I can’t freegin’ wait! Almost through the tough stuff. It’ll get more fun real soon. I promise. :) Chandler
Click here to watch the video. That’s how you post to elance for an editor. Pretty simple, huh?
Elance Posting Template Below is a template you can use for your posting. Subject: Editor Needed For ___ Book Body: “I'm looking for someone with good English & literary skills to do the content and copy edit for my book. The book has already been through a couple selfediting phases but this is the final edit before the the book will be published on Amazon in a few weeks. The book is a ___ book that talks about ____. As far as the editing goes, I’m on a pretty short deadline so I need someone who can work quickly and focus attention on this project over the next 2 weeks. I need the content and copy edits completed by ____(insert date 2 weeks out). The book is ____ words, ___ chapters, & ___ pages. I'm looking for someone with editing experience and with interest in this type of book. I'm working on this book with proven best sellers so this will be great exposure for you and your work. If you're interested in the project, submit a proposal with why you're interested & your price. Also, please include the phrase "purple cow" at the top of your bid. If you have any questions, just let me know!”
This is a basic template for you to use. Feel free to tweak and change as needed.
After You Post Once you post, it’ll take a couple days to get some proposals. Within 2 days, you’ll have enough proposals to make a hire. Go through and pick the best one & award them the job. Get them what they need to get started. Then...go ahead and set a deadline for them to get back the first “content edit”. This deadline should be 3 or so days out. In order to hit your 2 week deadline for editing, the process should look like this: Day 1: Hire the editor & get them started Day 13: Editor does first content edit Day 46: You make content changes Day 710: Editor does final content edit/beginning copy edit Day 1112: You approve changes & make final tweaks Day 1314: Editor does final readthrough & copy edit As you see here, you’ll go back & forth with your editor a maximum of 3 times. This will be PLENTY...as long as you’ve taken some time to do the verbal read through & and a little self editing. PRO TIP: When you’re working with an editor, make sure you both use “track changes” inside Microsoft Word or Google docs. This will allow you both to see each and every change made so that you can approve or deny them. Most good editors will know this, but I wanted to throw this in here just in case.
An Example Of A Good Proposal Below is an example of a proposal we got for Breaking Out Of A Broken System. We chose this person to edit our book (even though she was one of the highest prices) because of her specific examples of how she’s worked on projects like ours in the past and because she expressed a special interest in our project. IMPORTANT NOTE: This price is much more than you should pay for an editor. The only reason this was so expensive was because the formatting of the book was very different & the book was long. It was 38,000 words. We paid less than $300 to get The Productive Person edited.
Please let us know if you have any questions throughout this process! You’re getting closer and closer to publishing your book. I can’t freegin’ wait! Almost through the tough stuff. It’ll get more fun real soon. I promise. :) Chandler
