Clara Weiss
Features, guidebooks and cookbook editing
I write about what people eat and where they travel to eat it, and I edit other people’s books about the same. Twelve years on a city magazine’s food desk, freelance since 2020.
Commissions and fees
Terms and questions| Service | What it includes | Length | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
Feature commissions | Reported features of 1,500 to 4,000 words for magazines and newsletters, with my own photographs on request. | 3 to 5 weeks | From $1,800 |
Guidebook chapters | New chapters and full updates: every listing visited, checked by phone and rewritten to your house style. | 4 to 6 weeks | From $2,600 |
Structural edit | A full read of a cookbook or travel manuscript, a ten-page editorial letter and a call to go through it. | 6 weeks | $4,500 |
Line edit | Sentence-level editing in tracked changes, with recipe testing notes for cookbooks. | 4 weeks | $0.04 a word |
About Clara Weiss
I spent twelve years on the food desk of a city magazine, the last eight as its editor: restaurant reviews, a weekly market column and an annual guide that sold out every November. In 2020 I went freelance to report further from home and to work on books.
More about ClaraFrom editors and authors
Clara files clean copy two days early and every fact holds up. Her piece on Lisbon’s fish markets was our most-read feature of the year.
Her editorial letter reorganised the book in a way I could not see myself. The structure she suggested is the one we printed.
Forty guidebook listings, all revisited, all on time.
Recent writing
All writingA week of breakfasts in Porto
Seven mornings, seven cafés, and why the best one served nothing but toast, butter and very strong coffee.
Editing recipes that work the first time
Most recipe errors are in the order of the steps, not the quantities. What I check in a cookbook manuscript before anything else.
Forty listings, revisited
What changes in a guidebook chapter in three years, and why a phone call is not enough to update it.
Commissions
- Phone
- (215) 555-0164
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Hours
- Replies within two working daysCalls Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
- Elsewhere