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Professional Editing Services

Professional Book Editing Services

Find the right level of editorial support to strengthen, refine, and prepare your manuscript for publication.

Which Type of Editing is Right for Your Book?

Start with what you want your editor to focus on.

Developmental Editing Big-picture structure, content, pacing, and organization
Line Editing Prose, style, readability, and sentence-level effectiveness
Essential Copyediting Grammar, accuracy, clarity, and consistency
Proofreading A final light editorial review and polish
Poetry Editing Specialized editorial attention for verse
Children's Book Editing Specialized editing for stories written for young readers
Choose Your Level of Support

Professional Editing for Every Stage of Your Manuscript

From big-picture development to final proofreading, choose the level of editorial support your manuscript needs.

Big-Picture Editing

Developmental Editing

Strengthen the manuscript as a whole.

Evaluate structure, organization, pacing, character development, argument, flow, gaps, and other big-picture concerns.

Best for: Manuscripts that need substantial editorial guidance.

Pricing: Custom quote.
Prose & Style Editing

Line Editing

Strengthen the writing itself.

Improve prose, word choice, readability, point of view, tense, repetition, and awkward passages.

Best for: Manuscripts that need stronger, clearer, more effective writing.

Pricing: Custom quote.
Detailed Manuscript Editing

Essential Copyediting

Improve accuracy, clarity, and consistency.

Correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, contextual word usage, clarity, and consistency while respecting your voice.

Best for: Completed manuscripts preparing for publication.

Pricing: See service details for current pricing.
Final Editorial Review

Proofreading

Give a polished manuscript one final review.

Catch remaining spelling, punctuation, and consistency issues before publication.

Best for: Manuscripts that have already been thoroughly edited.

Pricing: Custom quote.
Specialized Editing

Poetry Editing

Professional editing that respects your verse.

Review punctuation, grammar, consistency, rhythm, and presentation while preserving your creative voice.

Best for: Poetry and poetry collections.

Pricing: Hourly.
Specialized Editing

Children's Book Editing

Refine your story for young readers.

Strengthen language, pacing, readability, story development, and age appropriateness.

Best for: Children's stories and books for young readers.

Pricing: Custom quote.
Genre-Specific Editorial Support

Editing That Respects Your Genre and Your Voice

Our editors consider the conventions and reader expectations of your genre, from fiction and children's books to Christian and faith-based works, while preserving your individual voice.

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Not Sure Which Type of Editing You Need?

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