As an Editor, Ghostwriter and Publisher, You Already Know Your Rates Are Not Where They Should Be. Here Is Everything You Need To Fix That, Starting This Week.

You do not need a long course.

You do not need a coach.

You do not need to spend months figuring this out.

You need the right knowledge, the right tools, and the confidence to apply them to your next conversation with a client. That is exactly what this whole digital bundle gives you.

Professional Rates is the first pricing book written specifically for African editors, ghostwriters and publishers. The Stop Undercharging Bundle puts six practical implementation tools directly in your hands alongside it so that the knowledge does not just sit in a file on your device.

It gets used immediately.

What Is Inside the Book

Professional Rates: How Business-Smart Editors Calculate, Quote and Attract Serious Clients was written by a professional editor, ghostwriter and publisher with 16 years of industry experience, built from the ground up for the African market, illustrated in US dollars so it works across every country on the continent.

This is not a guide adapted from a UK blog or borrowed from a US freelancing group. It was written for your market, your clients, and your reality.

Here is what you will find inside:

A step-by-step system for building your rate from the ground up using your real cost of living, your actual market and your income goals. Not a number copied from someone else's reality. Your number, calculated correctly, for the first time.

How to pivot to professional rates. It covers the mindset shift, the portfolio positioning and the internal preparation that makes raising your rates sustainable rather than terrifying. Most editors skip this step. That is why their rate increases do not stick.

Exactly how to quote your rate with confidence, what to say when a client pushes back, and how to close a quoting conversation without apologising for your worth.

Exactly why foreign rates do not translate to your market, what African clients and publishers actually budget, and how to position yourself as the premium choice without pricing yourself out of your own industry.

Exactly how pricing changes when you scale beyond yourself. How to quote for a team, structure editorial packages and build a business that does not depend entirely on your own capacity alone.

Exactly how your rates signal your positioning, and how to use that signal deliberately to attract clients who value professional editorial work and pay for it properly.

1.    Professional Rates (Online-Reading Edition)

The complete digital edition of Professional Rates, which you can read from the website from anywhere and at any time, when your hardcover is not close by. You will find yourself searching, making mental notes and returning to specific chapters whenever a new client situation requires it. This digital edition is your working copy while the hardcover is your reference copy. Together they give you the book in every format you need.

THE STOP UNDERCHARGING BUNDLE

This is a bundle of five practical tools for immediate implementation. Reading about professional pricing and being able to implement it the same week are two different things. The Stop Undercharging Bundle is the bridge between this two.

2.   The Manuscript Pricing Calculator

A structured, ready-to-use tool that walks you through calculating your personalised rate using the exact framework from the book. Fill it in once, understand your number completely and you will never guess again.

3.   The Client’s Script Pack

Word-for-word language for presenting your rate to a new client, including exactly what to say when they tell you that you are too expensive, that their budget is smaller, or that another editor quoted less. You will never be caught off guard in a pricing conversation again.

4.  The Client Red Flag Checklist

Know before you quote whether a client is likely to respect your rate or spend the entire project trying to renegotiate it downward. This checklist protects your time, your energy and your peace of mind before you invest any of them.

5.   The Pricing Diary (Printable)

This is where you implement everything. Track your quotes, reflect on your pricing and build your professional system.

6.    Freelance Book Editing Business Toolkit

A start-up companion as an editor.

What you need to get, what you need to buy, what you need to know and what you must invest in, to carry on the business of editing sustainably.

7.  Ghost-writing Income Guide

A PDF guide to making multiple 7-figures.

It opens your eye as an editor to the opportunities that abound. Guides you to understand the unfair advantage you have for ghost-writing, and add it to your services. It also shows you where the money is.

Everything at a Glance

✅ Professional Rates (Online-reading Edition)

The Stop Undercharging Bundle containing:

✅ The Manuscript Pricing Calculator

✅ The Client’s Script Pack

✅ The Client Red Flag Checklist

✅ The Pricing Diary (Printed)

✅ Freelance Book Editing Business Toolkit

✅ Ghost-writing Income

This Is For You If:

You are an editor – developmental, copy or proofreader – who has been setting rates by feelings, by comparison or by what you think clients will accept.

You are a ghostwriter whose work has consistently been underpriced, and you are ready to change that with a proper framework rather than another round of guessing.

You are a publisher or book consultant who wants to understand pricing from both sides of the table.

You are an experienced professional who is done using foreign benchmarks that were never built for your market or your clients.

You want to implement professional pricing immediately – not after a course, not after a coaching programme, but this week, with your next client.

You are a self-motivated editor who does not need a community or a mastermind to get things done. You just need the right knowledge and the right tools.

What This Bundle Does Not Include

This tier 2 does not include the hardcover edition of the book. That is available exclusively in Tier 3.

This tier does not include The Editorial Boardroom Mastermind – the one-year community with monthly sessions and direct access to the author. That is also available in Tier 3.

If you finish the book and the bundle and want more – the community, the accountability, and the direct guidance – upgrading is simple. Contact [email protected] and the $17 you paid here will be credited toward Tier 3, and you pay the difference.

About the Author

Chisom Utibe Akah has spent 16 years inside the African publishing industry as a professional editor, ghostwriter and publisher of authors across the continent. She has edited hundreds of manuscripts, ghostwritten books that have reached wide audiences, and sat on the publishing side of the table with her company – Logos Audibles – which means she understands what clients actually budget for editing and writing, not just what editors wish they would pay. She wrote Professional Rates because the book did not exist and because she watched too many talented African editors, ghostwriters and publishers undervalue work that deserved to be properly priced. This is the resource she needed when she started. It is the resource the African publishing industry has needed for a long time.

What Pre-Order Buyers Are Saying

"I want to increase my rates professionally and confidently."

-        Elizabeth Sam

"I want to learn how to price my work and worth more professionally. Secondly and more importantly, because I know everything from you is GOLD. You walk the walk, and I believe you’re the most qualified person to talk about this because you have decades of experience as a professional editor and have worked with different clients across diverse industries and continents."

-        ChinyereDistinguished Chimezie

"I invested in professional Rates to get acquainted with current pricing structures, as it concerns manuscript editing. More importantly, I made the investment because I believe the book is written by an author who has specialised knowledge and experience in the subject matter."

-        Victor Eyo

“I paid for this book to enable me to charge professionally without having to battle indecision.”

-        Sonnie Nkanu

“I ALWAYS receive questions from my mentees and many others who are building, so I need this. More so, I love what this author represents."

-        Ijeawele Chiamaka Ogbonna

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this book only for editors?

Yes and No. It was written with editors at the centre but covers ghost-writing pricing in dedicated detail and is relevant to anyone who prices, commissions or manages editorial and publishing work, including publishers and editorial consultants.

What currency are the examples in?

US dollars. Specifically chosen so that the framework is usable across every African country without currency conversion complications.

I am just starting out. Is this for me?

Yes. There is a brand new chapter specifically on preparing to make the shift to professional pricing, which is exactly where beginners need to start. The book covers pricing at every career stage.

I have years of experience. Will I still learn something?

If you have never been formally taught how to calculate, structure and present your rate, then YES. Experience and pricing knowledge are two completely different skills. Most experienced editors are still undercharging because experience alone does not teach you how to price.

How do I receive my order?

Immediately after purchase you receive a confirmation with full download details. Everything is delivered digitally straight to your inbox.

Can I upgrade to Tier 3 later?

Yes. Contact [email protected] and the $17 you paid will be credited toward your Tier 3 upgrade. You only pay the difference.

I have more questions before I order.

Send your message to +234-803-899-4417 or email: [email protected] and you will receive a personal response within 24 hours.

PRICE

The price for the entire Tier 2 package is $17.

The Knowledge Exists. The Tools Are Ready. The Only Thing Missing Is Your Decision.

African editors, ghostwriters and publishers have been undercharging for too long, not because the work is not worth more, but because the framework to price it correctly has never existed in a form built for this market. It exists now.

The Tier 2 gives you the book; the Stop Undercharging Bundle with the calculator, the script, the checklist, the roadmap and the ghost-writing guide — everything you need to calculate your rate, quote it with confidence and start attracting the clients your work deserves.

For $17 today, with immediate access.

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Questions?

WhatsApp +234-803-899-4417 or email [email protected] with your query, as every message receives a personal response.

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