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Genre Specialties
Services & Rates
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(Rates average 4.5 cents per word)
Developmental editing looks at the big picture of your manuscript and is often recommended for new authors to help refine their writing craft.
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This should be the first round of professional editing that your book undergoes. I like to think of this round as a personalized one-on-one class that focuses on enhancing your writing craft. Through this process, you will learn how to develop and improve your manuscript while increasing your skill and understanding of the craft of writing.
A developmental editor ensures that the story makes sense and the author addresses larger issues such as overall structure, timeline and order of content, hooks and prompts of each chapter, archetypes and character development, point of view, plot and tropes, time and location setting, proper pacing, consistency, transitions, dialogue, and adding/deleting/rearranging of scenes.
At the completion of the developmental edit, you will receive balloon comments directly on your manuscript as well as a detailed editorial letter with applicable notes and suggestions for improving your manuscript and your writing craft in general. You will then take as long as you need for rewrites before getting back on my calendar for line/copyediting.
(Rates average 7.5 cents per word)
Line / copyediting is a line-by-line process combining line editing and copyediting into a package deal, saving you both time and money.
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If done separately, line editing should be round two and copyediting should be round three of your editing process. Because both of these rounds of edits go line by line, many editors, including myself, combine these two rounds into a package deal.
Line editing focuses on the rhythm and language of your manuscript, working on voice and word choice, style and phrasing, dialogue and dialogue tags/anchors/said bookisms, similar sentence structure and repetition, filler words, and consistency with action.
Copyediting checks for typos, double words, grammatical errors, punctuation, spelling, formatting issues, echo words, complete fact-checking, and ensures an accurate timeline. (Note that this is only the first attack on such issues and I highly recommend following up with a fresh set of eyes for a final proofreading as your fourth and final round of editing.)
At the completion of this combined round of line/copyediting, you will receive a marked up manuscript with in-line edits and balloon comments with notes and suggestions for how to improve your manuscript. After you have reviewed and either accepted or rejected the changes, you will want a fresh set of eyes for a final proofreading prior to publication, and I am happy to refer you to one of my colleagues for this purpose.
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