The machine drafts. You decide whether it’s a book.
We’re hiring native-speaker literary editors in German, Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. You are credited by name on the title page, you keep the right to decline any manuscript, and you are 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.
- EN → DE
Editor name
MA literary translation, Leipzig. Eleven published translations in crime and thriller.
- EN → DE
Editor name
Fifteen years in-house at a Hamburg trade imprint. Genre fiction and narrative nonfiction.
- EN → PL
Editor name
Jagiellonian University. Fantasy and science fiction specialist, six published novels.
- EN → PL
Editor name
Freelance for two Warsaw trade houses. Romance and commercial fiction.
- ES / PT → EN
Editor name
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’.