Why do Flood Manuscripts fee rates differ from other services?
The rate is loosely calculated on a basic rate of $30 hr at an assessment reading rate of 25pp/hr with no loading for shorter works and no bulk discounting for longer works. Most services and assessors depend on skimming large portions of longer works to keep the fee cheaper (or consigning their assessors to very poor rates), making up for time and disaffection of assessors by loading the rate on shorter works. ^ TOP Flood Manuscripts guarantees that every hard-won word of your manuscript will be read and assessed (no skimming), therefore the rate of reading fee remains the same no matter what length.
The rate is loosely calculated on a basic rate of $35 hr at an assessment reading rate of 7,500 words/hr with no loading for shorter works and no bulk discounting for longer works. Most services and assessors depend on skimming large portions of longer works to keep the fee cheaper (or consigning their assessors to very poor rates), making up for time and disaffection of assessors by loading the rate on shorter works. ^ TOP Flood Manuscripts guarantees that every hard-won word of your manuscript will be read and assessed (no skimming), therefore the rate of reading fee remains the same no matter what length.
