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A guide to our copy editing services for writers

WritersServices can provide a range of services working on your manuscript, to help you get it ready for submission or self-publishing. We are UK-based and our skilled professional editors have been working on writers' manuscripts for 17 years.

We have just introduced free samples and free assessments on most of these services, please see the individual service page.  Read more

Writer's Edit service

A top-level new service for writers who want line-editing as well as copy editing

Does your manuscript need high-level input from an editor to help you get it into shape for submission or self-publishing?

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© Chris Holifield 2016-18

Getting your manuscript copy edited

Getting your manuscript copy edited

If you are looking for copy editing online, it can be difficult to ensure that you are getting a professional copy editor who will do a good job on your manuscript.

Let WritersServices help you!
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Copy Editing Service

Professional Copy Editing Services for writers

WritersServices is based in the UK and provides professional copy editing services for writers offering a free sample, high quality and great value at an excellent price point. We have been offering our professional copy editing services for over sixteen years and have a team of skilled copy editors.  Read more

© Chris Holifield 2006-18

Copy editing | Inside Publishing

Copy editing and Proof-reading

Chris Holifield 2017What is copy editing?

Perhaps, as an author, you feel you do not understand what copy editing is, or why you should need it. Copy editing, or line editing as it   Read more

© Chris Holifield 2005-17

Proof-reading service

Our Proof-reading service will carry out a final check to make sure your book is ready to be printed

Our professional editors can proof-read your book when the text has been set up as pages and is ready to print.  Read more

© Chris Holifield 2002-17
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11 February 2019 - What's new

February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

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Closing date: 
30 June 2019
Entry: 
Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
Prize: 
1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more