[JCBreckenridge]

I do considerable editing work, and I am willing to edit books at a decent rate if I think the book has potential.

Speak for yourself sir.

[kingu]

I do considerable editing work, and I am willing to edit books at a decent rate if I think the book has potential.

A decent rate, once presented with a work you think has potential. I'm sorry, I'm missing how I might have ruffled your feathers. I stated it is expensive, mostly because writers imagine it is done for free.

I've known quite a few who charge an exceedingly reasonable rate of $1 per page; for a 900 page work, just under a grand to edit it, that is very reasonable, yet I've also seen people balk at such a rate as being 'outrageous.'