Editorial Services
Finalize Editorial exists to guide authors through the journey of publication. We present ourselves as a steadfast, assured presence through an otherwise unknown or trepidatious trek across deep waters.
Your manuscript is about to embark on a literary journey across the waters of revision to the delta of publishing. Allow me to be your river guide.
Just as a skilled canoeist navigates the twists and turns of a winding river, me and my team of seasoned editors will expertly steer your manuscript towards clarity, coherence, and brilliance. Whether you’re embarking on the first draft of your novel or navigating the final revisions of your masterpiece, trust us to navigate the currents of language and storytelling, ensuring your work sails smoothly towards its destination: publication success. Dive in with us and let your words flow freely as we paddle alongside you.
Prepare to get there.
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Content & Style| 3-4 Weeks
A manuscript evaluation is a high-level read through of your manuscript, with an eye out for overall story structure, pacing, character and plot arcs, dropped threads, strengths, and weaknesses. No changes are made to the document.
Content | 6-8 Weeks
Developmental editing is a big-picture edit that addresses the manuscript’s structure, pacing, characterization, narrative voice, point of view, and other story nuances to bring your story to its best cohesive self while adhering to market conventions and expectations.
Style: Voice | 5-6 Weeks
Line editing works with your authorial voice to smooth the waters of your prose’s rhythm and flow with effective diction and syntax. This service ensures the imagery, language, and structure of your prose delivers the greatest affect.
Style: Grammar | 5-6 Weeks
Copy editing focuses on internal consistency, accuracy, grammar, style, and punctuation. If line editing looks at how voice affects the readers’ understanding of the text, this edit focuses on how grammar affects the clarity of your text.
Mechanics | 4-6 Weeks
The final editing pass on typeset manuscripts almost ready for publishing. This service looks for lingering grammar, mechanical, spelling, punctuation, or formatting errors missed by previous eyes.
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All editorial services are priced on a full project basis. This allows for a mutually beneficial pricing structure for all my author clients. To provide the most efficient and accurate quote, I need to look over your entire manuscript to get a feel for your writing style and the editorial needs of the piece.
Why the whole book and not just the first ten pages?
The story hasn’t really begun in the first chapter. To best serve you and your manuscript, I’d like to read the very beginning, read around in the middle to get the feel of your second act and try-fail cycle, and read the novel’s end. In this way, I’ll be able to tell if your voice and tone reflect the story you set up in the first and second acts.
How your book reads from beginning to end will affect how we assess the scope of a developmental edit, manuscript evaluation, line edit, and even copy edits.
Intellectual Property and Copyright are important and meaningful concepts to us here at Finalize Editorial. If you have any questions, please email me.
Hours
Open Monday to Thursday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET
Open Friday
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. ET