You’ve planted the seeds for your incredible story, but now you need an experienced Story Arborist to come in and nourish your seedling into a fully developed, ready-to-publish manuscript. We’ll work closely together through this project as we assess not only where your book fits in today’s market but how your book can be the best version of itself through revision and pruning.

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 querying authors seeking an agent to represent them with publishers.

“Established” support modules for represented authors under contract with an agent who would like some personal assistance with the pre-submission deadline tasks.

Developmental Edit

Service Overview

A developmental edit takes a close look at all the elements that make up your story—pacing, voice, characterization, plot structure, organization, continuity—and guides you, the author, to strengthen these foundational pieces into the best version of your manuscript. We approach developmental edits with a strong bent toward writing coaching. We point out the weaknesses and strengths of your novel using structure data, critical literary analysis, and market trends. We’ll talk about not only what needs to be revised and where to find it but also why it’s an issue and how we can strengthen your writer’s toolbox to execute the necessary revisions.

Author Support Modules

Sapling: Query Letter Creation

Once we’ve finished the developmental edit, we’ll write your query letter for you. That’s right! We’ll craft a compelling query letter to use when pitching to agents. All you need to do is fill out a questionnaire to give us some relevant information we could include beside the manuscript’s story pitch. This service comes with one round of revisions.

Established: Marketing Support (5 hours)

You and your publishing team have an idea for who your market audience is and what they like to read. But we all know that most of the marketing efforts of a title still fall to the author. Let us take some load off for you! We’ll provide five hours of marketing support for your latest novel. From graphic creation to post calendars and virtual book tour scheduling, we’ll help you strategize and prepare to get the word out about your latest book.

Line Edit

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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: Agent Tracker Spreadsheet

There’s a lot to keep track of when querying agents. We’ve developed a comprehensive spreadsheet that will help you organize your query letter submissions, rejection letters, and extended offers. This spreadsheet also helps you create a strategy for who to query first and when to move on to your “dream” agent querying.

Established: Marketing Support (2 hours)

You and your publishing team have an idea for who your market audience is and what they like to read. But we all know that most of the marketing efforts of a title still fall to the author. Let us take some load off for you! We’ll provide two hours of marketing support for your latest novel. From graphic creation to post calendars and virtual book tour scheduling, we’ll help you strategize and prepare to get the word out about your latest book.