Editorial Services.
High-quality editorial services and text improvement for authors, publishers, and non-profits.
Editorial Services Help
Improve Your Text.
How long have you been staring at what you’ve written? Has it been so long that you’re tired of looking at it? (We’ve all been there at some point.) Maybe you’ve noticed that you don’t pick up on odd turns of phrase or incorrect punctuation like you once did. What gives?
Here’s the thing: this doesn’t happen because you don’t put enough care into your re-reads and self-edits. It doesn’t happen because you lack skills. It happens because you’re too familiar with your work. Turns out that miraculous thing in your noggin (i.e., your brain) has an incredible capacity to pass over something that sounds kind of weird if it’s encountered it numerous times before. It also sees what it knows should be there, even if that means reversing transposed letters or filling in missing ones.
Having a second pair of eyes on your work helps flag and correct those things you inadvertently miss. And that’s where my editorial services come into play.
Line Editing & Copyediting
Imagine this: Your reader reaches the climactic scene where they’ll finally discover whodunit. Their reading pace increases as the tension ramps up, and then…
Your villain giggles. Not last-vestiges-of-sanity laughter. Not an unhinged cackle. Not even the decency of a maniacal chortle. A giggle.
And just like that, the spell’s broken and your reader’s immersion ends. All because a character giggled when they should have cackled. It’s not what you want.
Proofreading
You know that last glance in the mirror you do before walking out the door? The one to make sure your hair isn’t sticking out, your shirt isn’t on backward or inside-out, and you don’t have something stuck in your teeth? You can think of proofreading as the editorial services equivalent to a last check in the mirror.
Proofreading is the final step that cleans up lingering textual or formatting errors that escaped prior rounds of editing. It makes sure everything is in tip-top shape before your audience sees the final product.
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If you’re looking for someone who will respect your authorial voice while giving you honest, constructive feedback, you’ve come to the right place!
Drop me a line today so we can chat about which of my editorial services is right for you.