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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
There are Internet content farms that pay copy editors better than this, with the copy editor working at home. Your prospective copy editor probably doesn't know that, or she wouldn't work for so little. Either that or she's not good enough to land the work. If you're lucky, she's the former.
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For her it's a time issue. Right now she's pregnant and working flat out at the job she has (60 hrs/wk) because the job has health insurance.
In a month she's getting married and will be on hubby's insurance, and said job will go the way of the dodo.
Once said job is gone her calendar will be opening up for new projects. And, if you feel like pming me the names of the places you're thinking of, I'll happily send them to her.
Fiction editing is what she wants to do, and part of starting low is building up a portfolio of work. Once you can point to well written, successful books with your name on them, it's easier to charge more.