Your costs depend on the scope of your project and the choices you make in your contract with us. We have three kinds of cost: communication rates, service rates, and licensing and copyright rates.
For hourly rates, time is digitally tracked, appears on the invoice, and is billed in partial hours (minutes) so you only pay for the time we work.
Communication Rates
Free for your request, our response, and the project check-ins you and we set in our contract together
An agreed-upon per-hour fee for additional communication that exceeds the project check-ins we set in our contract together
Service Rates
Law-related service rates
$60 per hour of research, writing, or both
Business-Related Service Rates
$40 per hour of research, writing, or both
Creative service rates
Research-only projects
$30 per hour for research and preparation of research findings
Writing projects
(with or without research)
$0.10 to $0.30 per word counted in the final draft of the work product
The rate depends on the type of writing you request. Typical rates for some types of writing might be:
- $0.10 per word for blog posts and short-form fiction or non-fiction (no more than 40,000 words)
- $0.10 to $0.20 per word for long-form fiction or non-fiction (more than 40,000 words), adjustable in the contract you and we make together
- $0.20 to $0.30 per word for academic non-fiction narratives regardless of length, adjustable in the contract you and we make together
Licensing and Copyright Rates
Remember, only original works are protected by copyright laws. We added some relevant information from copyright.gov to our Ownership and Use FAQs.
Ordinary Use License
No added cost for your license to use our original work for personal use and business planning or compliance purposes
Other Rights
Negotiated rates for additional rights, like full ownership of the work and original characters or worlds
You can plan to negotiate the rights in the contract you and we make before project work starts, or you can request to negotiate for the rights in a new contract with us after the work is done.