Editing Services:
Line Editing
Line Editing
Line Editing
Line editing comes after developmental editing and before copy editing. It addresses specific issues at the sentence and paragraph level while maintaining your author voice. We will review your writing for:
- Tone, flow, and clarity
- Obvious clichés
- Word choice
- Filler words and filter phrases
- Repetition and redundancy
- Changes in tense
- Unnatural dialogue
- Unnecessary words
- Run-on sentences
- Confusing narrative
- Continuity problems (was your MC wearing blue in the paragraph above but is now wearing green?)
- Fact-checking
This service includes two editing passes. All edits will be made to your manuscript using Track Changes and Comments in Microsoft Word, using The Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for reference.
Cost: $0.013 per word
Copy Editing
Line Editing
Line Editing
Copy editing comes between line editing and proofreading. It's where we make sure those annoying commas are in the right spot and you're punctuating your dialogue tags and action beats (yes, there's a difference!) correctly. We'll be reviewing:
- Grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors
- Syntax
- MINOR fact-checking (please don't expect me to become the neurosurgeon)
- Flagging for repetition, redundancy, and plot holes
- Continuity problems (was your MC wearing blue in the paragraph above but is now wearing green?)
- Dialogue punctuation
- Consistency in character names and details, spelling, font, capitalization, numeration, etc.
- Formatting issues (extra spaces or tabs, subtitle consistency, chapter headings, etc.)
This service includes two editing passes. All edits will be made to your manuscript using Track Changes and Comments in Microsoft Word, using The Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for reference.
Cost: $0.01 per word
Proofreading
Line Editing
Proofreading
Proofreading is the last (not the only) line of defense for those pesky mistakes. At this point, your book should have been through a line edit, copy edit, and perhaps even a first round of proofreading—if you use more than one proofreader! We'll be searching your manuscript for:
- Obvious typos and misued words
- Missing words
- Continuity problems (was your MC wearing blue in the paragraph above but is now wearing green?)
- Consistency in spelling, punctuation, font, capitalization, numeration, etc.
- Basic formatting issues (extra spaces or tabs, subtitle consistency, etc.)
This service includes one editing pass. All edits will be made to your manuscript using Track Changes and Comments in Microsoft Word, using The Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for reference.
Cost: $0.007 per word