Pride Month Promotions on Editing and Coaching

To acknowledge Pride 2026, I’m offering concrete support to LGBTQ+ writers through a limited number of reduced-rate spots on all editorial and coaching services. With amplifying queer storytelling and knowledge production in mind, projects booked in June can be scheduled throughout the end of 2026.

This year, let’s support each other instead of large corporations.

Over the last few decades, greater LGBTQ+ visibility has increasingly led — especially as larger corporations have caught on — to the flattening of queer creative work into more recognizable, digestible, and marketable forms. One effect of this is that certain kinds of projects get attention at the expense of others.

But visibility is not the same thing as legibility. Pride offers us a chance to work together, allowing queer people greater control over our creative output. When this happens, the increased visibility we experience can be enjoyed on our own terms.

The Pride 2026 promotion is open to writers working within or alongside LGBTQ+ lives, experiences, and frameworks, broadly defined.

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Editing Support

  • For those getting ready to present their work.

    Fine-toothed revision of grammar, mechanics, consistency/continuity, flow, tone, word choice, clarity, and the like.

    Normal rate: $0.03/word

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $0.02/word

    Deliverables:

    • Personalized style sheet

    • Edits and running commentary via Track Changes

    • Glossary (if applicable)

  • For those still telling their stories.

    Higher-level assessment of your manuscript’s current state, with special emphasis on and attention paid to:

    Fiction — plot, pacing, character development, worldbuilding, and dialogue.

    Nonfiction — argument, evidence, flow, structure, target audience, and desired publication route.

    Normal rate: $0.05/word

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $0.04/word

    Deliverables:

    • Extensive editorial letter assessing the core elements of your manuscript

    • Running in-text commentary via Track Changes

    • Chapter-by-chapter breakdown

    Often paired with an Editorial Conversation.

  • For those still in process but wanting some outside help.

    Very much like a developmental edit, but with fewer deliverables.

    Still a higher-level assessment of your manuscript’s current state, with special attention to:

    Fiction — plot, pacing, character development, worldbuilding, and dialogue.

    Nonfiction — argument, evidence, flow, structure, target audience, and desired publication route.

    Normal rate: $0.02

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $0.015

    Deliverables:

    • 3-5 page editorial letter assessing the core elements of your manuscript.

    Often paired with an Editorial Conversation.

  • For those who need one last set of eyes on their manuscript.

    A final, careful revision to correct formatting inconsistencies, typos, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and anything else that slipped through the editing process.

    Normal rate: $0.015/word

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $0.01/word

    Deliverables:

    • Clean, formatted manuscript ready for publication.

Coaching Engagement

  • For those at any stage in the writing process who need some outside engagement.

    1:1 Zoom call.

    Topics may include, but certainly aren’t limited to:

    • Project development/structure

    • Accountability and habit building

    • Thematic and topical exploration

    • Writing in English as an additional language

    • Skill development

    • Affective and emotional support

    Normal rate: $85/hour

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $75/hour

  • For those needing more ongoing coaching support than a single session provides.

    1:1 Zoom calls.

    Normal rate: $340 for 4 sessions

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $300 for 4 sessions

  • For those at the very beginning of a project who have an idea, set of questions, archive, or vision, but need some help getting started.

    Together we produce a detailed outline of your project and a list of actionable next steps to ensure you maintain momentum after the completion of our sessions.

    Work is realized through a combination of 5 hourly Zoom calls and a series of worksheets that help you organize your thoughts and begin building the foundations of your project.

    I’m particularly interested in working with longterm partners and/or members of chosen family units.

    Normal rate: $500/5 sessions

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $400/5 sessions

  • For those at any stage of the writing process looking for collaborative brainstorming and discussion.

    You provide up to 5000 words for review, and we meet for an hour on Zoom to discuss any number of things related to your project.

    Normal rate: $65/hour

    PRIDE 2026 RATE: $55/hour

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Additional Information:

  • A limited number of additional sliding-scale discounts exist on a case-by-case basis. If the prices above are still out of range, please get in touch.

  • Payment plans are available upon request.

  • All projects are done under contracts aimed at protecting the interests of both parties involved.

  • AI policy: absolutely none of the work I do for you employs AI assistance.

Who do I work with, and on what kinds of projects?

  • Genres:

    • literary fiction

    • non-fiction

    • creative non-fiction

    • memoir

    • academic (especially the humanities)

    • historical fiction, autotheory

    • life writing

    • serialized Substack pieces

    • and more.

  • Writers:

    • first-time and emerging writers

    • established and seasoned authors

    • traditionally-and self-published authors

    • non-literary professionals curious about writing

    • collaborative projects with more than one author

Don’t see yourself reflected here? Ask!

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About me:

Hello! I’m Ian Funk, a writer, editor, coach, language specialist, and PhD in English living in Southern Spain.