Editorial and Sensitivity Read Services

I am eternally excited to work with stories! Here are some stories I worked on recently:

You can also check out my testimonials here.

If you would like your book to be featured on that list (or not; that one’s up to you entirely), please get in touch with me at monidipa.mondal@gmail.com with your project. I work with both publishers and independent authors. Here’s what I can do for you:

Line Editing, Copy Editing and Proofreading

For novel- and novella-length works in any kind of fiction, though I specialize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult and Horror. Depending on the kind of project, I charge by the hour, by the page or by per 1000 words.

Editorial Assessment and/or Structural Editing

I don’t usually do editorial assessments, structural or developmental edits but if you enjoy my fiction and strongly feel that your story can benefit from advice from me, feel free to shoot me a mail at monidipa.mondal@gmail.com!

Sensitivity and/or Authenticity Reads

I do sensitivity or authenticity reads both for caste/Dalit subjects and Indian/Bengali/South Asian in general. I also do sensitivity reads for LGBTQ+ and mental health subjects, but only on the South Asian vertical. (To understand what a sensitivity read is, this is a really good article.) For authenticity reads, I would work with both science fiction/fantasy and realism, Adult and YA stories. My authenticity reading rates are 1c USD per word (i.e. $1000 for 100,000 words), but are somewhat flexible depending on the complexity of the project and amount of feedback required.

I am a Bengali Dalit woman who grew up, studied and worked in India till the age of 25, and has lived in the UK and the US since then. I have three masters’ degrees (English from India; Publishing Studies from the UK and Creative Writing: Fiction from the US), and have written and published for years on South Asia-related subjects, both in India and elsewhere. I bring all this experience of my culture to a sensitivity/authenticity read project.

I look forward to receiving your stories! Let’s work together to make better, more fun stories for everyone.

Credentials:

Before I went freelance, I was an editor at Penguin Random House India between 2012 and 2013, and an editor at Uncanny Magazine between 2017 and 2018. I also received an MLitt in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling, Scotland. I was the first Hugo Award finalist and Locus Award recipient from India in 2018, both for my co-edited anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler.