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Editing Services



I provide line editing, copyediting and proofreading services. 
Indie authors and clients from any country are welcome. 


A written work should go through four types of editing before publication:

  • It needs content editing to help you organize your material in the most interesting and coherent way and catch any passages or plot elements that are confusing, redundant or boring.
  • It needs line editing to make sure the work is clear, consistent and easy to understand.
  • Then it needs copyediting to polish the spelling, punctuation, etc. 
  • And just when it seems like the piece must be perfect, it needs proofreading to catch the errors that somehow stayed in there anyway. A good professional standard for proofreading is to keep checking until you have read through the whole piece once without finding a single error.

Services

  • Line editing and copyediting: The final draft must be completed and the content editing done. Attempts at copyediting of earlier drafts will only waste your money, so it's in your best interest to be sure the work is ready. If you're not sure, feel free to contact me. I love talking with other writers, anyway, and would be glad to help you figure it out.
  • Proofreading: Line editing must be completed, and the work must be new to me. 

Interested?

Fill out the form below, and I'll send you a quote and let you know what my schedule looks like.


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