SERVICES

Manuscript Evaluation: involves reading your entire manuscript and providing detailed comments and suggestions regarding content, organization, tone, writing style, and editorial issues. A manuscript evaluation of fiction will address characterization, dialogue, plot/conflict, and point of view, as well as ways to remedy problems.

Developmental Editing: coordinating your nonfiction project from outline or rough manuscript to final manuscript; incorporating input from you, reviewers, and others; serving in a support capacity to help you shape the content and organization of your material.

Line Editing (sometimes called Substantive Editing or Book Doctoring): takes into account both the big picture as well as detailed line-by-line editing, often involving several drafts; may require research/fact-checking. Collaborating with you on fiction will produce refinements to the characters, dialogue, plot/conflict, and point of view.

Copyediting: correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation, and infelicities of language; minimizing jargon and repetition; ensuring consistency of styling and facts; inserting headings and approximating the placement of art, figures, tables, and sidebars; inserting tags for typesetter.

Rewriting/Writing: providing new text from material supplied by you or creating new text; partnering with you to convey your message clearly, accurately, and effectively.

Proofreading: correcting typographical and typesetting errors on pages that have been designed and laid out (the last stage of the editorial process).

Writing Coaching: offering individually tailored guidance and instruction to help you achieve your writing/publishing goals.

Resumes: writing, rewriting, designing, editing and/or formatting, as needed.

Consulting: providing direction, referrals, and resources on self-publishing and commercial publishing.

Project Management: coordinating various stages of document production — writing, editing, proofreading, design, and printing.