Editing Services    

A developmental edit comes at the beginning of your writing journey. It's the most in-depth, collaborative, and time-intensive of all the editing services.  

 

As your developmental editor, you’ll get my full professional and creative expertise. We'll work together with weekly or twice weekly check-ins to talk about my editing suggestions and your questions and feedback. My highest priority is retaining your unique author's voice and providing respectful, high-level editing advice for your work.

 

Developmental editing can include large structural changes in the manuscript, and feedback about flow and pacing; descriptive effectiveness; showing vs telling; plot clarity; dialogue effectiveness; characters development; comparative books in your genre; how your work compares with industry expectations; and so much more.

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Developmental editing for poetry calls for a unique approach. This is a specialty area of mine. My editing method utilizes a deep-listening base where reading the poems aloud, and discussing the sound, rhythm, word spacing, emotions, and impact (+ more) inform the poet's choice of modifying (or not) their work.

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All my developmental edits include full in-document Tracked Changes and an extensive, separate editorial assessment report. ​

Proofreading is the last step in the editing process. At this point in your author's literary journey, the book has been (at least) copyedited and formatted by a designer. This is the stage when your book will look quite similar to its soon-to-be-printed version, with copyright pages added, etc.  

 

Proofreading focuses on making sure the already copyedited document is free from errors and is ready to be prepared for publishing. 

 

Manuscripts ready for proofreading are usually in an Adobe PDF form.  Having the work in this format is important since it's designed with all the elements of a printed book (or e-book). If your book isn't copyedited and formatted yet, it's most likely not ready for a proofread. 

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Many people mistake proofreading for copyediting.  Copyediting will correct your grammar, spelling, sentence structure, and much more.  Then, when it's been copyedited and formatted, that's where a proofreader comes in!

 

I'm an eagle-eyed proofreader who will triple check your work for all important aspects for this stage, including front and back matter, main text, pagination, running heads/feet, and much more.