FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
These are competitive estimates. Rates may vary with startups and student clientele. Reduced rates are available with student ID. Rates: Editing: $3-$7.50 per page. Writing: 1-3 ms pages/hr Writing, fiction: $50-60/hr 10¢-25¢/word Writing, ghostwriting: $50-60/hr 10¢-50¢/word Writing, grants/proposals/sales/PR: $50-60/hr 17¢-95¢/word Writing, journalism: $40-50/hr 17¢-50¢/word Writing, medical: $60-70/hr 80¢-95¢/word Writing, nonspecific: $40-100/hr 10¢-$2/word Writing, technical/trade: $50-60/hr 10¢-55¢/word Specialties include: Speech writing: $100-$500 Full length songwriting for personal use only: $300-$700 In-depth, lengthy poetry for personal use: $50-$150
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
A contact by phone is always best or secondarily, email mike.lapenna via gmail.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
See resume. Synopsis: More than a decade of combined experience in media (2006-Current): - Performed many public speaking and writing tasks in general speaking and writing for specific needs: advocacy, creative copy, promotion, blogging, editing, screenwriting, stand-up comedy. - Wrote newsletters, press releases, conducted research, etc. - Wrote and performed promotions including on-air segments, film and radio script writing and editing, line editing, intensive editing, etc. I love seeing other writers' work while also being able to keep up with the latest information and cultural trends. Writers NEED to be readers!