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.

While most editors provide style sheets only for copy edits, we provide style sheets for our line edits as well as our copy edits. This resource is used to document your unique writing style preferences that contribute to your novel’s tone, themes, and market. These notes are useful for the subsequent copyeditor, who will take your intentional style choices into consideration while correcting your grammar and mechanics.

You may schedule a 30-minute Zoom call with us after the edits are complete to walk you through the review process of the tracked changes, comments, and any additional resources before getting started on your revisions.

After you go through the manuscript’s edits and review our changes, you’ll make your needed revisions and send the manuscript back to us for a second and final review. (Limit to five thousand additional words.) We’ll review your changes, check rewrites for style, and export a final clean document for you to use for querying or copyediting.