To get this information, I would ask your publisher (and the editor) the following questions: Do you think my book needs any developmental / substantive editing before I go
into copyediting?
Editors at Gotham, who might have been afraid to wade
into the copyediting waters with an opinionated author like Truss, wisely decided to reprint the book exactly as it was in the original version, with all its British spellings and punctuation intact.
Not exact matches
Step Two: Novelist gets the manuscript
into shape with some first readers and maybe a good
copyedit, then launches it on electronic sites and gets it through a POD publisher such as CreateSpace, which will give you cheap author's copies in their $ 39 pro program.
With the Challenge Two series just starting, all the stories will be read by my first reader and also
copyedited before I put them up and
into book form.
I won't go
into the fact that the plot line, the dialogue and the characters all needed a lot of work, probably more than a basic
copyedit could fix.
I first learned to
copyedit while working in the production department of a publisher a few years
into my career.
After your manuscript leaves editorial, it goes
into the hands of production (first stop in production is
copyediting).
She also
copyedits books for ALA Editions and other publishers, recently, happily, branching out
into true crime (
copyediting, that is).
Recently we've had several projects where the authors used terms like proofing,
copyediting and «light edit» to describe that final manuscript review necessary before a book moves
into the design and layout phase.
I offer:
Copyediting Line Editing Content / Developmental Editing Comprehensive Editing (combines content and copyediting into one affordable service) Proofreading Package deals and tailored solutions are available Rates: Proofreading costs a flat $
Copyediting Line Editing Content / Developmental Editing Comprehensive Editing (combines content and
copyediting into one affordable service) Proofreading Package deals and tailored solutions are available Rates: Proofreading costs a flat $
copyediting into one affordable service) Proofreading Package deals and tailored solutions are available Rates: Proofreading costs a flat $ 1 per page.
If you have a
copyedited manuscript that came from an OCR process, we can certainly convert that
into an eBook, assuming it is edited.
Reach
into your network and hire newbie editors to
copyedit at a low rate in exchange for the experience, a testimonial and a referral source.
Some professionals divide
copyediting and line editing
into two separate edits,
copyediting being the lighter, grammar - only edit, and line editing being a more intense look at each sentence's meaning.
This gets
into the real nitty - gritty of
copyediting.