Where To Start?
Step 1: Invest in an Editor
Is there anything worse than publishing a book and finding a typo? Yep, it’s finding two typos. Don’t let typos happen to you. And watch out for haphazard storytelling, uneven plots, and forgettable characters. These can all derail your book, and cause readers to lose faith in your storytelling.
Before you publish your book, get a professional reader to give you an honest critique of your work. While you should self-edit your book, remember that there are limits to self-editing. You’re too close to the material and you will miss both glaring and subtle mistakes. Not just typos, but also characterization, plot holes, perspective changes, and tiny details that you’ve gone blind too but will annoy your reader to no end.
Editorial Services in 3 Stages:
A Manuscript Critique
First Step
A manuscript critique is also known as developmental editing (also sometimes referred to as line editing).
This is an intensive structural edit which focuses on the finer aspects of language—the flow of ideas, transition elements, tone, and style. One of our professional editors will look at your manuscript’s language usage, character development, plot, and more; and make suggestions to ensure you’re communicating your story effectively—without losing your voice.
Our professional editor will:
- Correct any awkward constructions, redundancies, and suggest alternatives for succinctness and clarity.
- Review the narrative, vocabulary, structure, characterization, style, and development.
- We will provide editorial notes and comments throughout the manuscript.
- Estimated time to complete this process is 6 to 10 business days.
A Comprehensive Edit
Second Step
This is a basic word-by-word edit addressing grammar, usage, and consistency issues. Your editor will correct continuity issues your story may have, and ensure your manuscript is free of major loose ends which may confuse your readers.
- Check for typographical and spelling errors.
- Correction of grammatical and linguistic errors, and attention to correct punctuations.
- A focused review on your elements and strategies used to craft a more compelling story.
- Your editor will meticulously scour your manuscript for any weakness, line by line.
- Estimated time to complete this process is 6 to 10 business days.
Final Proofing
Last Step
A professional proofreader will complete a final review to fix any remaining mechanical and grammatical errors before your book is printed and published. Proofreading only focuses on eliminating minor mistakes and inconsistencies.
- Correction of misspellings, punctuation, capitalization, verb tense, and grammar.
- Estimated time to complete this process is 6 to 10 business days.
