At BubbleCow, we are dedicated to providing bespoke and tailored editorial feedback that empowers authors to realize their creative visions.
Our mission is rooted in the belief that storytelling is an art and writing is a craft. We pride ourselves on delivering the highest possible quality of service by deeply understanding both the author and their book.
This allows us to offer the most insightful feedback and guidance, ensuring each writer can elevate their work to its fullest potential. With our transparent 'cost per word' pricing structure, we ensure clarity and fairness, enabling authors to focus on their craft without unexpected costs.
Our Story
In 2007, Gary Smailes was frustrated by the quality of editorial feedback available to self-publishing writers
He had worked extensively within the traditional publishing space for several years, and he understood that though there were many great, professional editors, they often had no understanding of how to ‘translate’ the kind of feedback they provided to the self-publishing space.
The result was that self-publishing writers were mostly only able to access expensive, low-quality editorial feedback from editors that had little, if any, understanding of the true requirements of self-publishing writers.
Gary was aware that most writers were working to a budget and that editors needed to provide a new, cost-effective service if these writers were to receive the type of feedback their books required.
In the traditional publishing industry, it is common for editors to quote prices based on the length of a manuscript, the complexity of the prose, and even the genre. The result was that it was often impossible for a writer to receive an accurate quote for editing at the project's outset. This meant that not only were writers forced to jump through several hoops to get a quote for this book but, often, this cost would be incorrect, with the final cost spiraling as the editing dragged on beyond the initial assessment.
Gary understood that if a self-publishing project was to be successful, then writers needed to be aware of all the costs at the outset, and these costs needed to be set in stone before the editing started. Only this way would a writer be able to accurately assess the budget required to publish a book.
To solve this problem and provide transparent and straightforward pricing for editorial feedback, he developed a much fairer ‘cost per word’ price structure. It was at this moment that BubbleCow was born.
