BOOK & MANUSCRIPT EDITING / FICTION

The publishing business is tough. Many more books are written than ever make it into print. Whether you’re planning on finding an agent or going the self-publishing route, you need to be sure your book is edited and proofed well. We have years of experience editing and proofreading hundreds of books for publication. Please check our Testimonials and list of Published Clients.

Book editing is a very demanding skill, one that requires book editors to read every single word individually—focusing on diction choice—while also considering each sentence, paragraph, scene, character, conflict, and idea, both individually and in relation to the entire book.

Our PhD book editors are all published authors and book editing specialists and, thus, experienced with the entire manuscript editing and publishing process. We will check all the grammar and punctuation, while retaining your intended dialect, point of view, tone, and diction level—making sure your narrative voice remains yours, not ours.

For no additional charge, when we edit your book we also will evaluate its content. No other editing company will give you this valuable service for free. When we return your edited book to you, it will have evaluative comments in the margins. In addition, we will include the following checklist as a separate file, completely filled out with professional, doctorate level commentary by your editor.

• Is your book too short or too long, and, if so, why?
• Does it have any major organization or structural problems?
• Have you missed any key ingredients or not sufficiently developed any scenes or topics?
• Are the characters original and fully developed?
• Is the dialogue genuine and fresh?
• Is there too much interior monologue or description and exposition, with too little action and/or dialogue?
• Are there any clichés or stereotypes that weaken your writing?
• Is the plot original and compelling?
• Is there enough believability, suspense, action, conflict, and tension?
• Could your book attract an agent and/or publishing company? If not, why not?
• Is there anything else at all that you, as the author, could do to improve it?