BOOK EDITING AND PROOFREADING FOR AUTHORS

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 BOOK EDITING PREPARES YOUR MANUSCRIPT FOR THE PUBLISHER

Trade publishers cringe when they open a manuscript pock-marked with spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors.  If a brief glance reveals poorly expressed, disjointed and dull prose, why would they look any further? Such manuscripts are promptly rejected.  Hours of creative labour are dismissed in an instant, because the author was so involved in the creative process that he or she neglected the technical minutae.

 BOOK EDITING AND PROOFREADING ARE ESSENTIAL BEFORE YOU SELF PUBLISH

Self-publishing is often seen as a way to bypass those notoriously fickle publishers.  Yet self-published books must win the approval of the toughest judges of all - the reading public!  Too often, the potential of a self-published book is annihilated by that same poor quality of prose, grammar and punctuation.  Readers are no more inclined to wade through murky prose than are publishers. The self-published author is often left wondering why there is a large pile of unsold books in the garage and a matching hole in the bank account.

 

BOOK EDITING AND CRITIQUING CAN MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT SPARKLE!

Oz-Edit's critiquing service will give your manuscript its best chance - a cut and polish.  Naturally, we cannot guarantee publication, or sales success for self-publishers. We rub away the surface: there has to be the glimmer of diamond in the creative writing beneath to ensure success. Our task is to diligently polish what you give us, be it literary gem or family bauble.

Oz-Edit's low-cost service gives every keen writer the opportunity to access professional manuscript editing. It is cheap editing and cheap proofreading but NOT cheap and nasty! You will be staggered at the quality feedback.  We know that a potential author entering a tough market with an untried product does not want to risk a huge outlay on editing.  Consequently, we have kept our budget editing fees as low as possible, and offer a sliding scale of options:

 

Option 1.  a light (but thorough) proofreading.  If you are completely satisfied with your writing style and wording, and require only a check on 'minor' problems such as spelling, grammar and punctuation, this is your budget proofreading option. remember that pore proffreading aren't always as easy as ths to spot!

 

Option 2.  a detailed (and slightly more expensive) copyedit.  To our standard proofreading package, add a thorough vetting of expression and style. We highlight awkward phrasing, cliches, over-used words, repetition, shifts in tense ... indeed, all those foibles we are often blind to in our own work.  Most manuscripts need this level of attention. If you are an author with English as a second language, then English editing to eradicate those small telltale lapses in fluency is important.

 

Option 3.  a technical critique.  All of the benefits of 1 and 2, plus insightful comments throughout on character delineation and development, narrative point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue and plotting concerns.  Can you believe that the very most you will pay for this full service (on a complete manuscript) is $1.00 AUD per 100 words?  That is at the highest workload rate. Most editors charge twice that for copyediting - and this is a full technical critique. Editing and proofreading services have never been more affordable.

 

Option 4.  a First Chapter Critique.  This is an important new concept.  You may feel that you can't afford a critique or professional editing of your entire manuscript, But you can certainly afford our special First Chapter offer from $30.  Indeed, you can't afford to miss it.  Your first chapter is crucial to the success of your book.  For further information, please go to our sister-site,  CHAPTER ONE EDIT.

 

What Oz-Edit will do for you:

  • We offer writers with novel or short story manuscripts any of the above book editing options.
  • We offer writers with non-fiction manuscripts any of the above book editing options, where option 3 becomes a structural critique, examining chapter order, appropriateness of headings and sub-headings, readability and reader appeal.
  • We will always respect your intellectual property and leave final decisions on book editing changes to you.  The editing feaures in Microsoft Word allow you to accept or reject our suggested changes.
  • We will work to your deadlines, if we believe them achievable.  If not, we will decline the project with regret.
  • We will communicate regularly throughout the project, seek clarification, and, on long projects, return completed sections at regular intervals.
  • We offer the opportunity for progress payments to make large book editing projects easier to manage financially.

What Oz-Edit will not do:

  • We will not evaluate the literary worth or market potential of your manuscript - we leave that to the fortune-tellers. We are in the book editing business.
  • We will not undertake a project where the writing is so poor that we would virtually have to ghost-write the book.
  • We will not design or lay out your publication - we work only with the written word.
  • We will not try to coax you into further outlay with a particular publisher or printer. We have no affiliations, and make no recommendations of other services. Editing proofreading and critiquing are our only fields. [Ah, did you notice the missing comma?]

Our Cheap Editing Rates:

You will be pleasantly surprised  at how little our manuscript critique and proofreading services cost - especially if your US dollar or British Pound is buying our poor little Aussie dollar!  Your  cheap editing fees are calculated, and agreed upon, before work commences. We inspect your manuscript and evaluate the correction level as light, medium or heavy.  The budget editing fee is then locked in - no nasty surprises later!

 

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Book Editing Process:

We are in Brisbane, Australia  but take editing jobs from all over the world. Your document will come to us as an email attachment and, once edited, will be returned by email.  Lengthy works may be sent and returned in segments.  Payment will be by Paypal and/or credit card or bank transfer. 

For full details of our working method,  please click on the  Book Editing Process page  link.

 

 

 

 

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