Using Microsoft Track Changes, we prune and polish your novel to cultivate its best self, leaving detailed comments throughout the novel suggesting revisions and explaining the changes we made. Since we use Microsoft Track Changes, you’re in control of accepting or rejecting whatever revisions we implement. As editors, it’s our job to uplift and polish your manuscript, but if there’s something you don’t like, you can always reject the change—we will always honor your artistic vision. When we’ve finished your project, you’ll get the whole manuscript with the final draft already assembled in one clean file.

This style sheet explains the CMOS (Chicago Manual of Style) rules most often enforced for grammar and style, a list of the subjective style calls in the manuscript that follow the author’s tone, and a glossary of terms and names unique to the book. If your book is in a series, this resource is used as the continuity guide for style, plot, and characters. If you’ve done a line edit with us as well, we combine the style sheets to one comprehensive document for easier referencing.

After you go through the manuscript’s edits and review our changes, you’ll note your desired tweaks and stets and send the manuscript back to us for a second and final review. We’ll review your stetted changes, check rewrites for grammar, and export a final clean document for you to use in publishing.