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Our Services
Editing & Publication Management
An editor can make your communication messages clear, correct, and market-appropriate. We work on various types of projects including fiction and non-fiction, university-level textbooks, website and marketing copy, newsletters, articles, and corporate communications. If it’s written, we'll edit it to ensure your best message is out there. If you need an editor to spearhead the development and execution of a publication, we can effectively manage your project from idea to a reality.
- Copy Edit: Editing for grammar, spelling, punctuation and other mechanics of style; checking for consistency of mechanics and internal consistency of facts.
- Developmental Edit: Organizing and editing a project from the proposal stage/rough manuscript to a final manuscript that is ready for an actual substantive/stylistic/copy edit.
- Proofreading: This is the final pass of an already edited manuscript or written work before it heads to the publisher or printer. It is intended to catch any missed typos and inconsistencies. Think of it as fresh set of eyes.
- Substantive Edit: Editing text for overall clarity, pacing, unity, structure, and content.
- Stylistic Edit: Clarifying meaning, removing slang (if not appropriate within context) and clichés, fixing sentences for language, and other non-mechanical line-by-line editing.
Manuscript Evaluation
Have you written a novel and aren't sure if it’s ready for publication?
A manuscript should be read by someone who isn’t your friend or family member, someone who can be an impartial judge on the work you’ve done. That person is a trained editor who has read hundreds of manuscripts, and knows what to look for and what publishers want.
An evaluation will provide you with honest feedback on such aspects of the manuscript as: character development, pacing, plot, structure, dialogue, language, syntax, setting, overall believability, and writing technique.
Evaluations can be done on complete and partial manuscripts.
Years of experience in writing back cover copy and preliminary matter for books, promotional/marketing material, non-fiction pieces, creative writing material, and product feature articles/blurbs.
We have experience seeking permissions for copyright material.
Do you need something fact-checked? We can do that too.
Whatever research you require, we have the skill and determination to hunt down the information.
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