The all-in-one package.
Staring down at your first completed manuscript?
Have a first book in series that you’re working to self publish?
This service will take you from start to finish.

The Comprehensive editing package is for anyone looking to make their first manuscript a fit-to-publish novel. Here, a member of our team will work with you on every stage of editing to take your book from rough draft to final proof. It includes one round each of the following:

Developmental editing

• Pacing
• Plot
• Character development
• Fact-checking
• Dialogue
• Setting
• Atmosphere
• POV
• Narrative style
• Target audience
• Marketability

Line edits

• Weeding out redundancies
• Showing versus telling
• Issues with tense
• Shifts in point of view and perspective
• Cliches
• Sentence variation
• Dialogue
• Spelling
• Grammar
• Punctuation use
• Paragraph length
• Scene transitions
• Fact-checking, second pass
• Small scale plot and character problems

Proofreading

• Punctuation use
• Typos
• Spelling
• Etymology
• Consistency check with style sheet
• Emdash versus endash versus hyphen
• Text formatting for internal dialogue
• Chapter headings
• Word formatting

Additional passes may be requested; each is provided at half the standard cost per stage.

Cost: .03 per word.
Turnaround time: four weeks and up, depending on length of the manuscript.

During a Comprehensive edit, as with our other multi-stage packages, there is a “pass-back” period. At the end of each stage of editing, the editor will return the manuscript to the author for you to approve or deny edits, as well as make any changes needed. We feel this maintains an author’s voice and writing style, while producing a higher quality of work.

Style sheets are crafted by the editor throughout this process; they are available upon request once the work is complete.

All first-time clients will receive a complimentary sample edit for the first five pages of your manuscript. This allows our team to insure your book receives the level of editing required at this stage in its journey. We strongly encourage requesting samples from any editor, so you can be sure they’re the right choice for you.

Custom payment plans area available for every service we provide. We understand that publishing is a long term financial commitment, and are happy to work with you to make the cost of putting out your next book a little easier on your budget.