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This editing service is used to coach or guide an author's manuscript to the next level by offering suggestions for improvement.
We not only mark errors in the text, we assist you with making changes to strengthen your writing and develop your story or manuscript to its best potential.
A developmental editor may rewrite some sections for you. We work with you on all elements of book development including front matter, back matter,
and strengthening your writing.
This service is similar to ghostwriting, but when having us assist you with developmental editing, you must provide
a rough draft manuscript for us to work with. An author requesting our ghostwriting services may have us work from an idea,
notes, links, etc. For ghostwriting, we do the research and the writing of the entire manuscript for you. In developmental editing,
we serve as a book shepherd or mentor to help aspiring authors improve their overall writing skills. The end result is the transformation
of your rough draft, which will be a quality manuscript ready for publication.
Personal help on full or partial edits at this level is $50 to
$70 per
hour. The number of hours can be reduced if the author does
most of the
re-writing while guided by our writing tutor. If you want to send only one chapter, we will use it to show you an example
of what is needed for you to improve the rest of your manuscript on your own.
See a list of books we have written or edited for clients.
See our client list and current book writing
and editing projects.
Our copy editor will go through your manuscript and complete the needed
changes to include:
- Correcting mechanical, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and usage
errors.
- Checking for proper alignment and spacing of
text. Mark inconsistencies.
- Marking inconsistencies and asking author to consistently format dates,
headlines, numbers, and alphabetized, bulleted, and numbered lists. We offer
book formatting as a separate service.
- Noting awkward transitions, redundancies, and hyperbole.
- Noting any biased language or stereotyping.
- Noting any places where the point of view shifts without
a clear sense of who is telling the story.
- Marking improper formatting of dialogue and checking
balance of dialog vs. action/exposition/internal thought.
- Making the author aware of places where he or
she is "telling" rather than showing what the character is thinking.
The copy editor may query the author to clarify sections, ask him
or her to rewrite some sections, or to get permission to make other
improvements (such as moving a chapter or segment to a better
location in the manuscript). We do not
rewrite for you at this level of edit. We will proofread the entire
document one time once the author has accepted or rejected all
changes and sent us a near-perfect document. Fee: $4 per 250-word
page.
See a list of books we have written or edited for clients.
See our client list and current book writing
and editing projects.
Once your book has been written and edited, it will need a thorough proofread. Our proofreader will mark all technical errors and return manuscript to the author as a digital document.
The author is responsible for completing the suggested changes. Cost for proofreading is $2 per 250-word page.
One of our editors will read your book or manuscript (up to 70,000 words) and give a written assessment of its commercial potential.
A kind but honest opinion of the author's strengths and weaknesses will be given along with tips for improving the overall quality of writing.
The evaluation includes an assessment of the manuscript's publishing condition and what it would take to get it ready to submit to an agent or publisher.
Self-publishing and print-on-demand companies often require an
author to format a book to certain print specifications. Most authors do
not have the technical skill level to utilize the advanced features
of Microsoft Word.
We will create proper margins for your printer's specifications, check alignment and spacing of text, set section breaks, and add headers, footers, and page numbers
in your Word document. Using styles, we will set your fonts for body text, headings, and numbers to
ensure that
alphabetized, bulleted, and numbered lists are formatted consistently throughout your book. Cost is $5 per page.
You will have a Word version that you can amend and a PDF that can be used as an e-book.
If your printer requires your book to be uploaded using InDesign or another book layout program, we will refer you to our
graphic designer.
Do you want a professional eye to review your term paper before submitting it to your professor?
Do you need help making your college or graduate school application essay as strong as possible?
Does that English essay not seem as dynamic as it could be?
WITS team member Sarah Moore, a former high school and college teacher who has taught courses in research and writing,
is available for your academic editing needs. She will not write the paper
for you, but will mark all spelling and grammar errors as
well as offer extensive comments and suggestions concerning the
structure and overall quality of your writing. You will notice a
difference in the quality of your assignments!
Cost for this service: $4 per 250 words.
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