Who needs editing?
Short answer: everyone
Long answer: anyone who wants their writing published
Once you’ve spent days, months (years?) creating a manuscript, your brain is clogged with all of the content. Organization, content, and, yes, grammar all contribute to your readers’ understanding your message, relating to your characters, remembering what you had to say. If your words matter (and they do), then editing matters. Your words, only better!
If you need an editor to evaluate the overall manuscript, have a look at Substantive Editing.
If you’re after an editor to review words, sentences, and paragraphs, try the Line Editing.
Once your manuscript has been edited for content, Copyediting will whip the grammar, syntax, usage, and typos into shape.
You’ll also find other options below: Substantive PLUS, Fact Checking, Critiques, and Proofreading. It depends on how much help you need and want.
SUBSTANTIVE EDITING
- Wide-lens editing with skills guidance
- Fiction only
- Character and plot analysis
- Point of view, pace, tone, and other fiction elements
- Targeted Skills Sheets to assist you after editing
- 4.0¢ per word and up, fact checking additional
LINE EDITING
- Paragraph- and sentence-level edits completed for your review
- Main focus: wording, passive voice, redundancy, flow, tense
- Incidental correction of grammar
- For complete manuscripts previously evaluated for organization, content, and fiction techniques
- 3.0¢ per word and up
COPYEDITING
- Close-up technicalities
- Review and correction of spelling, capitalization, grammar, usage, typos
- Also, word and line spacing, consistency of terms, hyphenation, style
- Formatting of dialogue, numbers, spacing, headings, tables, references
- Targeted Skills Sheets for future reference
- Style Sheet for manuscript
- 2.5¢ per word and up
PROOFREADING
- Last step before publishing
- Final, intense review to catch stray errors
- Spelling, capitalization, grammar, punctuation, usage, typos, formatting
- For manuscripts in publishable formatting and previously reviewed by an editor
- 1.5 ¢ per word and up
SUBSTANTIVE EDITING *PLUS*
- Wide-lens editing … done for you!
- ALL of Substantive Editing, PLUS…
- Discuss options for corrective action and complete actions for you
- Provide targeted Skills Sheets for future reference
- 6.0¢ per word and up, fact checking additional
MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUE
- Economical review!
- Chapter-by-chapter substantive assessment of manuscript
- Comments provided for each chapter as a whole (not marked line by line)
- 2.0¢ per word and up
FACT CHECKING
- Can be added to Substantive Editing or PLUS.
- Items will be flagged during editing and corrected during fact checking.
- $27 per hour, tracked separately
VALUE BUNDLE
- Combine three or more editing services for a 10% discount on each.
- Follow up a Critique with editing and apply the price of the critique toward the editing.
- Combined services must be scheduled within 2 months of each other.
What's next?
First of all, don’t remain stuck! Ready to move forward, get that manuscript in shape?
Want help figuring out exactly what you need?
Either way …