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Charlie Knight–zero stars.
I asked Charlie if they’d like to work with me on my Alternate History Clone novel. The tagline is “Prince James learns he is not royalty, as he’d believed all is life, but is a clone, a member of the slave class who are on the verge of rebellion.”
They accepted the assignment on January 11, and wrote a contract. Included was this verbiage, “After the first round of revisions are completed
and sent back to you, we will continue to work together on additional edits as
needed.”They sent back the first first round of revisions on March 20. The first paragraph of the email reads, “Hi, Brennan! I wrapped up edits today, and I’ve attached the revised document here. First, let me say that much of this is very strong. The pacing is perfect – which is a challenge in a story with multiple POVs and storylines – and your worldbuilding is strong. All of the characters are fully developed as well. Nicely done! “
Their edits did require me to do some substantive rewrites. Since my edits were taking a while, I decided to pay them in full, instead of using their 25%/25%/50% payment plan. This was partially based on the positive feedback they’d initially given.
Once they got my revisions, and my money, they decided my novel was too offensive (it deals with slavery) and they were uncomfortable working with it. They wanted to change MY story into a ROOTS-type of rebellion story. I told them I wasn’t interested in retelling “Roots.”
I sent them an email asking if they could objectively finish the additional edits to my novel, and if not, could I get a refund. On October 12, They wrote “I am not issuing a refund” and “My work on the story stops here, as does our collaboration.“. Everything turned nasty once she’d received the final payment. Before then, she’d been quite helpful and supportive
I do not recommend Charlie Knight. Work with them at your own risk. If you do, get everything before you give them the final payment.
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