The machine drafts. You decide whether it’s a book.
We’re hiring native-speaker literary editors in German, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. Credited by name on the title page, free to decline any manuscript, and paid to say a book isn’t ready.
Published, because rates that aren’t published are usually bad.
- Sample review$22010,000 words, all system flags resolved, notes returned to the author.
- Full post-edit$0.055 / wordLine-by-line edit of a complete manuscript, at or above association minimums.
- Second reader$0.022 / wordVoice and continuity pass over an already-edited manuscript.
- Rejection fee$120Paid in full if you read a book and tell us we shouldn't take it. That judgement is worth paying for.
Paid within fourteen days of delivery, no invoice chasing. Rates rise with the third book you edit for us.
Who is already here.
Five contracted editors. We name them, with credentials, to any author or press before they commission a book — and on the title page of the finished edition. We don’t publish them here until each has cleared it with their current publishers.
- EN → DE
Named before you commission
MA literary translation, Leipzig. Eleven published translations in crime and thriller.
- EN → DE
Named before you commission
Fifteen years in-house at a Hamburg trade imprint. Genre fiction and narrative nonfiction.
- EN → PL
Named before you commission
Jagiellonian University. Fantasy and science fiction specialist, six published novels.
- EN → PL
Named before you commission
Freelance for two Warsaw trade houses. Romance and commercial fiction.
- ES / PT → EN
Named before you commission
US-based line editor. Two hundred-plus full-length manuscripts for trade and indie authors.
Good. So are the editors already working here.
Machine translation has been used to underpay translators for a decade. We are not going to argue you out of that history. What we can do is show you the work, tell you what the system got wrong before you see it, and pay you to fix it at rates you can live on.
You will never be asked to rubber-stamp a draft. If a manuscript needs more work than the tier bought, you say so and we re-quote the client — that decision is yours, not sales’.