Sentences with phrase «professional line edit»

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Through his editing company, Editwright, he provides comprehensive editorial services (developmental editing, substantive editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading) to independent authors, small publishers, and professional companies.

Feedback For Fiction's «Big Picture» editing app is in no way intended to replace formal, professional style and line edits, but it is intended to help you produce the polished version before you send it off.

The objective of a line edit is to make your writing as polished and professional (and «invisible») as possible.

They say the Gatekeepers (agents, slush readers, and first - line editors) are there for a reason, ensuring that new product is of the highest possible quality, that they've ensured that booksellers aren't loaded down with crap (and said brick and mortar booksellers are in complete agreement, only accepting books from major, established publishing houses), and that they and their staffs produce a truly professional final product, handling editing, design, and marketing so the author only has to worry about the words.

But this is the bottom line for me: If I couldn't afford to pay for both the print publishing and the editing, I would hire a professional editor and publish the book electronically instead.

You've encountered these before: why it's essential to get an agent, how to attract the agent, why you need to revise, revise, and revise again, how a writer's critique group can provide useful feedback, why it helps to share your manuscript with editing professionals (developmental editors for plot and style problems, line or copy editors for making the grammar and syntax road - worthy)... and all the rest.

Copyediting, which is sometime also called line editing, applies a professional polish to a book.

If you are working with a professional editor at this stage you will be getting a line edit.

Independent authors can learn from successful, established authors, ask questions of publishing professionals, and attend seminars on everything from the business of being a writer to editing, developing an author platform, writing a great first line, and more.

Every winner will receive a thorough copy or line editing from BookBaby's professional editing team, comprised of seasoned editors that have worked with titles across every genre, many on the New York Times bestsellers list.

Copyediting, commonly called line editing, is a light form of editing that applies a professional polish to a book.

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.

You've written the perfect story, and you've led your book through a series of hoops — careful revisions, professional editing, a web site, a blog, and a beautiful new cover, complete with book descriptions for the on - line retailers.

Once you've done this, send it on to a professional book editor for a round or two (or three) of developmental editing and then a round of line editing.

You still get the benefit of several editing passes (story development, line edits and proofing) and a professional cover.

However, that legal writing centers may in part draw upon positivist theory does not mean that they should be the remedial writing centers that appeared in universities in the 1940s and 1950s.91 Nor should the law school writing center be offered as a proofreading, cite - checking, or line - editing service for students; though tutors can provide generalized feedback and answer questions on issues of small - scale organization such as sentence structure and word choice, legal writers must be responsible for the polishing of their own documents, for both professional and ethical reasons.