Ann:
 
I'm a retired journalist turned history student. A word of advise. 1.) Legitimate publishers of most legitimate genres don't ask writers to pay publishing costs,especially editing. They either have in-house staff to deal with MS issues or they farm it out. (And if it were to be an author cost, it would certainly be more than $70-90 dollars. In either case, they NEVER ask the writer to pay such costs. 2.) Typically publishers seek out MS from "established" writers, by going through their agents. To get solicited directly from a publisher who then fawns over your work which is previously unknown to them, wreaks of scam.
 
Don't succumb to their sleazy charms. :)
 
A Colvin

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