Developmental Editing

What is it?

Developmental editing is typically the first stage of a story’s editorial journey and involves an in-depth look at the big picture of your manuscript, refining your ideas, shaping the narrative, and fixing any major plot or character inconsistencies.

Developmental editing:

  • Looks at the how, why, and where of your story.
  • Evaluates structure and pacing.
  • Ensures clarity, tone, and voice are consistent.
  • Provides in-depth feedback before copyediting.

Copyediting

What is it?

Copyediting is the next step once you’re happy that your manuscript’s
big-picture issues have been resolved. This stage involves fine-tuning the story’s readability, eliminating any repetition and character inconsistencies,
as well as tackling those pesky spelling, grammar, and syntax issues.

Copyediting:

  • Corrects spelling, grammar, capitalisation, POVs, and tense.
  • Improves readability and story flow.
  • Checks facts and continuity.
  • Adheres to your preferred writing style (UK/US spelling, oxford commas, etc.).

Proofreading

What is it?

Proofreading is the final stage of the editorial journey before book publication. This stage ensures no spelling or grammatical errors remain, and that your story is as ironed-out as possible.

Proofreading:

  • Corrects any remaining inconsistencies in spelling or style.
  • Eliminates issues with layout, typography,
    and page/word breaks.
  • Ensures formatting consistency.
  • Adjusts minor style issues.

What is included?

Developmental editing includes:

  • A full read through of your manuscript.
  • A thorough editorial plan that looks at the full scope of your story – plot, structure, characters, pacing, etc., and where to go from there.
  • In-text comments highlighting plot holes and areas of improvement, giving suggestions on how these can be remedied.
  • Chapter-by-chapter analysis and guidance.
  • Support and suggestions for refining your voice and themes.

    Please note, I am happy to provide support for any queries regarding feedback.

What is included?

Copyediting includes:

  • A thorough and in-depth line-by-line review and edit.
  • Clear markup in tracked changes.
  • Improved readability, flow, spelling, and grammar.
  • A personalised style sheet for your author brand, ensuring that this, and any future works remain consistent.
  • Optional comments explaining the edits and further suggestions.

What is included?

Proofreading includes:

  • A full read-through of your manuscript.
  • Clear markup and tracked changes.
  • Fixing any remaining spelling, grammar, or layout issues.
  • Correction of minor style issues, such as hyphenation, capitalisation, UK/US spelling.
  • A final polish for readability.
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