Next stop, your pages enter the book editing phase, the first stage in seeing a manuscript become a finished book. (thebalancecareers.com)
At this stage, you've written the book, you've gone through editing phases, and your hired gun of an editor has kicked you in the teeth and you've recovered. (fictorians.com)
Even if we traditionally publish, we still go through a developmental editing phase. (jamigold.com)