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Services

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Line Editing

Honing in on stylistic choice, tone, and sentence flow to ensure your story’s voice is engaging, immersive, and clear.

When do you need this?

Your plot and structure are set, but the prose feels clunky, repetitive, or flat. You want your writing to sound more immersive, polished, and evocative.

Focus: Rhythm, tone, clarity, sentence variety, word choice, and dialogue flow.

Fixes: Bloated phrasing, awkward transitions, passive voice, confusing metaphors, and pacing lags at the paragraph level.

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Copy Editing

Addressing technical mechanics - grammar, punctuation, spelling, and consistency - to ensure your manuscript is polished and accurate.

When do you need this?

Your draft is fully polished, but you need an eagle-eyed pass to catch technical errors, inconsistencies, and formatting slips before publication.

Focus: Grammar, punctuation, spelling, style guide compliance (e.g., Chicago Manual of Style), and internal logic.

Fixes: Misspelled words, tense shifts, stray commas, timeline contradictions (e.g., eye colour changes in Chapter 4), and hyphenation rules.

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Proofreading

Providing the final quality check on formatted pages to catch lingering typos, layout glitches, and formatting errors before publication.

When do you need this?

Your manuscript is fully revised, line-edited, and copyedited. Now you need a final safety net to catch any lingering surface-level errors before you publish or submit.

Focus: Final quality control, layout visual integrity, and catching remaining typos or formatting blunders.

Fixes: Misprints, orphaned headings, incorrect page numbering, stray formatting glitches, missing punctuation, and typos that slipped past earlier passes.

If you are not 100% certain what service you need, feel free to drop me a line through the Contact page and we can review your options together.

Service bundling is available on request. For example, copy editing and proofreading can be contracted together.