Sometimes you don’t need a Story Gardener; you’ve got your own green thumb. You’ve taken the time to develop your story, nurturing its plot tendrils and encouraging its most fragrant blooms that will enchant readers as they stop to smell the prosies. Now it’s our turn. Let us come in with our red pens to prune and arrange your manuscript into a market-ready bouquet.

This package is perfect for authors who want to have a line and copy edit performed on their manuscript without sacrificing the services’ individual depth and attention to detail that comes from a combined line and copy edit. A line edit on its own can spend so much more time working on your voice and narrative flow while also giving you the opportunity to learn from our comments and make final revisions to your flow before we begin an intensive review of your grammar, continuity, and global uniformity.

In our editing packages, each service comes with an in-service author support module that provides you, the author, with additional support or education on an aspect of publishing or marketing. While your editor is working within the manuscript, you’ll meet with your project manager Amber to develop your launch materials for publishing. These modules are linked to specific editing services to provide you with the relevant support you need during that stage of the manuscript’s development. These modules will flow organically to help you build a successful launch for your novel. For each editing service, you can select one module type:

“Sapling” support modules for debut authors or authors still learning the ropes of publishing.

“Established” support modules for experienced authors looking to expand their platforms.

Line Edit

Service Overview:

A line edit addresses issues found in a novel’s pacing, voice and tone consistency, character voice in dialogue, word choice, presentation of tension, and other corrections dealing with the general narrative flow. As we go through the line edit, we leave comments in the novel to explain the changes we’ve made, the writing technique behind the changes, and occasionally additional resources for you, the author, to check out. Our goal is for you to strengthen your already-developed authorial voice and to bring your character’s personalities to the forefront of your novel’s POV.

Author Support Modules

Sapling & Established: Blurb Copywriting

We’ll write your blurb (also called the back cover copy) for your novel and provide two rounds of revisions. This back cover copy includes a tagline and a 150-200 word blurb meant to go on the back cover of your novel and entice readers to find out what happens next.

Copy Edit

Service Overview:

A copy edit looks at the grammar, style, word choice, and other “gritty details” of the prose. This edit should be done only after you are happy with the structure and development of the book’s content. The focus of our copy edits is to perfect the mechanics of your content without sacrificing your unique authorial voice.

Author Support Modules

Sapling: Build Your ARC Team

An ARC team is a group of readers who receive an Advanced Review Copy (ARC) of your novel prior to release in exchange for honest reviews. We’ll teach you how to build one of these teams and give you the tools you need to successfully utilize them.

Established: Manage Your ARC Team

If you already have an ARC team from prior releases, then you can have Rooted in Writing take over the admin work of distributing your ARC copies and creating the email sequence leading up to your launch day. We’ll make sure your readers feel supported and part of your official team for your novel’s big day.