Editorial Services
Put my extensive writing and editing experience to work for your next fiction or nonfiction project.
Put my extensive writing and editing experience to work for your next fiction or nonfiction project.
#1 the line editA Line Edit focuses on how you tell your story. Is the writing clear, effective, precise, and affecting? Think of it as a deep scrubbing to the cogs of your writing's machinery. A personal workshop all for you.
Line editing addresses elements of craft and diction:
$.019 per word (or about $4.75 per 250-word page) |
#2 the copyeditA Copyedit is an intense proofread within context.
Reviewing for sentence-level errors in standard American English usage (spelling, verb tense, agreement, etc.) and house style, copyediting also ensures the document is in proper manuscript format for your purpose. $.016 per word (or $4.00 per 250-word page) |
#3 the proofreadProofreading is the last step to ready your manuscript for publication. Think of it as your final check!
Long after you stop generating new material or substantive revisions, you will need a highly-skilled, fresh pair of eyes to read and reread your manuscript, checking, yet again, that it is ready for publication. Proofreading looks for typos, misspellings, misnomers, imprecise or inaccurate punctuation (though author's style is always kept in mind, of course), consistency in usage and formatting, etc. $.012 per word (or about $3.00 per 250-word page) |
#4 the developmental edit |
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The Developmental Edit evaluates and critiques your manuscript in the context of market and reader expectations within your genre.
Taking stock of the larger forces at work in your manuscript-- its structure, style, and content--the editor suggests solutions to solve the problems identified so that your story will be utterly arresting and cogent. The manuscript will likely change in major and minor ways so all copyediting and proofreading should be performed after the author has reworked the manuscript. $.032 per word or $8.00 per 250-word page) |
To see what I can do for your manuscript, email me now.
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