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Editorial Services
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Editing service
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WritersServices can provide a professional editor to work on your manuscript.
You’ll get the kind of expert advice which is usually only available from an
in-house editor after a book has been taken on by a publisher.
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 | Do you know your manuscript needs major reworking, but don't know where to start? |
| Really good editorial input is like gold-dust and just as hard to
find. Our Editing service can help you get your manuscript into shape.
Your editor will be a top professional with many years
of experience in publishing, including major editorial work on
manuscripts (check our credentials - About Us) |
| The editor will:
| carry out structural editing
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| look at the storyline and its development (if it is fiction)
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| consider the content and structure of the work
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| evaluate the tone, level and approach
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| look at the writing itself |
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| Major editing of
this kind focuses on the fundamentals, rather than the detail, so the
editor will advise you on reworking your manuscript, rather than marking
up the specifics of correct presentation and spelling (see our Copy
Editing
service). Editing is a
process which requires working through the manuscript, so it is a larger
and more detailed task than an Editor's Report, which provides
a report and overall assessment of what needs doing.
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| The editor will need to read the manuscript to assess the degree
of complexity and the amount of work required before we can quote a fee.
We charge a small non-returnable assessment fee for this, but an
initial read-through would in any case be the editor’s first task as
part of editing the manuscript. We will then quote a fee, but you are
under no obligation to go ahead with commissioning the Editing service
if you don't want to.
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| We would normally expect to be able to complete an Editing
assignment in under three weeks, but will confirm the expected date of
completion when we quote the fee.
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What it costs
We need to do an initial assessment
before we can quote for the job. We have kept the fee for this as low as possible,
but the editor will need to read the manuscript. This fee is payable in
advance and costs:
| £50 for up to 100,000 words, |
| £60 for
100,000 to 150,000 and |
| £70 for 150,000 to 200,000. |
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Non-fiction is
harder to edit than fiction and will cost more. The charge for the
Editing service itself will depend on the complexity and difficulty of
the job, but is likely, for a manuscript of under 100,000 words, to be
in the region of £170 for
straightforward jobs and £210 for those which are more complex and for
non-fiction. On 100,000 to 150,000 words the charge would be between £210 and £250, depending on complexity. On
150,000 to 200,000 words the scale would start at
£250 and go up to £290.
All Editing fees are payable in advance, once the quote has been
accepted.
Please send your manuscript as one unzipped Word file, unless it is
over 125,000 words, when we recommend splitting it into two files.
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fictionalised account
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