Usage
Grammar and the sentence that is legal and still confusing.
Copy editing is the pass that makes a finished book consistent. Grammar, spelling, names, numbers, and the facts a reader can check. The voice stays. The accidents go.
Grammar and the sentence that is legal and still confusing.
Names, hyphenation, numbers, and the spelling you chose on page one.
Dates, titles, and claims a careful reader will look up.
The rules of this book, written so the next pass does not invent new ones.
The brief
Line editing shapes how a sentence feels. Copy editing makes the book reliable. We build a style sheet from your draft: what you capitalize, how you write numbers, which spelling of a name wins. Then we apply it, and we query the places where the text contradicts itself.
If a fact is wrong and we can see that from the page, we flag it. We do not silently invent a correction for a claim only you can verify. A query is more useful than a guess that looks confident.
How the pass runs
We learn the book’s habits before we start correcting them.
Names, numbers, hyphenation, and the spellings that must not drift.
A contradiction, a date that moves, a fact the sentence is sure about and should not be.
Grammar and consistency, applied. Judgment calls stay visible.
You accept, reject, or answer. Then the file is ready for proofreading, not before.
Before you send the manuscript
Proofreading is the last look, after the pages are set: typos, bad breaks, a heading style that slipped. Copy editing happens while the text can still be queried and made consistent. Doing them as one pass is how errors survive.
We check what the manuscript itself makes checkable, and we flag claims that need you. A full research pass is a different job. We will say so if that is what the file actually needs.
Yes. Chicago, a house sheet, or the rules already visible in your draft. Tell us on the first call. Inventing a new style halfway through is how books start to argue with themselves.
You do. The edited manuscript and the style sheet are yours. We do not attach our name to the book.
When you are ready
Copy editing is wasted on a chapter you still plan to throw away. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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