​Line & Copy Editing

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You've nailed your messaging and overall structure.  Now it's time to focus on readability.

We want your readers to be immersed in your storyline and stay on the page.

 

A line and copy edit corrects and smooths your writing artfully yet invisibly, eliminating distractions while retaining your style and narrative voice. Line editing focuses on your writing at the sentence-level edits to ensure that your writing flows well; copy edit fine-tunes and addresses grammatical and punctuation errors, incorrect facts, inconsistencies, and glaring typos.

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Pricing is subject to sample review. 

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What you get​

A full line-by-line edit for clarity and flow with changes to perfect your writing. A line and copy edit improves accuracy, grammar, punctuation, and spelling, with comments to enhance your message.

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I will address the following: 

• Chapter sequencing

• Inconsistencies in style and messaging

• Sentence pace, rhythm, and flow

• Awkward or cliché metaphor

• Effectiveness of sentence narration, sentence choice, repetition, and overwriting.

• Problematic representation, stereotyping, and othering

• Told versus shown prose

• Use of tenses

• Letter, word, line, and paragraph spacing

• Speech tagging and punctuation

• Spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, hyphenation, and capitalization

• Use of tenses

• Problematic sentence structure, narration, voice, and style

• Overwriting and repetition

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