Proofreading
Book proofreading is the vital last step of the editing process. After your manuscript has received its professional edit, your book proofreader will perform a final review to fix any remaining mechanical and grammar issues before your book is printed and published. Proofreading is not a structural edit and instead focuses on eliminating minor errors and inconsistencies.
- Correction of misspellings, punctuation, capitalization, verb tense, and grammar issues.
Copy Editing
A word-by-word edit that addresses grammar, usage, and consistency issues.
- Check for typographical errors, spelling errors, and consistency aspects.
- Correction of grammatical and linguistic errors, attention to punctuations such as commas, semicolons, quotation marks, etc.
- A review to ensure accurate and consistent usage
Line Editing
A more intensive structural edit that focuses on the finer aspects of language—the flow of ideas, transition elements, tone, and style.
- Correction of awkward constructions and suggestions to make sentences crisper and tighter by fixing redundancy and verbosity without a full rewrite.
- Review of key aspects of the manuscript—the narrative, vocabulary, structure, characterization, style, and development.
- Includes all of the services performed in BookBaby Copy Editing—checking for typographical errors, spelling errors, grammar issues, and inconsistencies.
- Editors' notes and overall comments on the book.
Please note that the editors will not review your Cover text unless you submit it in a word document that accompanies your interior manuscript.