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Editorial Services

Developmental

Edit

A developmental edit is a comprehensive analysis of the piece as a whole. It examines global elements such as logic, pacing, plot, setting, and character development. This is a heavily collaborative process between the editor and author, is most useful in the early stages of drafting, and is the most efficient way to prepare a manuscript for later copyediting.

Upon completion of the developmental edit the author will receive a letter documenting any suggestions and critiques about the work.

Substantive

Edit

At this level of editing, the focus is on the clarity and organization of the writing. This includes areas of redundancy, wordiness, inconsistency, sentence structure, tone, and flow. Substantive editing is best for writing that has already gone through one or two developmental edits.

Copy Edit

This is editing on the granular level. Here is where grammar, spelling, and sentence structure are reviewed and corrected. During this process editors will also fact check the manuscript if needed, as well as make minor suggestions at the paragraph level to improve for clarity and consistency.

Proofreading

Proofreading is the last line of defense. This is the final edit before the book is ready for publication, and provides a final verification that no errors were introduced during the design process and that the manuscript is error free.