It is important that your work suggests you are literate! If you are self-publishing it will be essential to get your work copy edited before proceeding. If you are trying to get your work published and know that it is full of minor errors, it's worth considering copy editing before submitting it, as these errors will not encourage editors or agents to read on, or to take your work seriously. He/she will also comment on more general textual problems (for instance, confusion about who is saying what in dialogue, or placing a character in the wrong place) and will if necessary raise a list of more general queries for the author to consider. Copy editing, or line editing as it is sometimes called in publishing circles, is the painstaking job of going through a manuscript line by line to correct the spelling, grammar and punctuation.Ī good copy editor will also correct errors, such as poor continuity (the heroine having dark hair on one page, but metamorphosing into a blonde later on) and factual errors (such as placing a town in the wrong place). Call or e-mail us for an estimate.Perhaps, as an author, you feel you do not understand what copy editing is, or why you should need it. Transcription: $45/hourĭo you have family letters, audio files, or an old manuscript that you’d like to get transcribed into digital format? We charge $45 an hour for transcription services. This is widely considered one of the best tools available for reading instruction, and, once it has been leveled, your book will be published in the leveled book list available to members nationwide. As a publisher, we are able to submit books to be leveled by the Fountas & Pinnell team trained in the F&P Text Level Gradient™. Especially if you are planning on marketing to educators, there are a number of different metrics to gauge this. Age-Appropriate Leveling: $75 per titleįor children’s book authors, it is invaluable for marketing and book sales to know your target audience’s age. Most children’s books can be completely edited for the cost of an Editorial Evaluation alone, but the Children’s Literature Assessment can provide additional valuable insight. It is a valuable developmental editing tool to ensure that you can precisely tailor your book to best engage with your target audience. For the Children’s Literature Assessment, a fellow children’s book author and reading specialist will review your book and provide the feedback you need to strengthen themes, language, imagery, and marketability. Children’s Literature Assessment: $145ĭuring the early stages of publication, it’s crucial to get constructive criticism. We would never want to change your own creative voice so any change that the editor makes must subsequently be approved by you, the author. Above and beyond this, our editors are attentive to plotting, characterization, and other details crucial to story.Įditing is done in Microsoft Word, and we use the “Track Changes” feature so that authors maintain complete control over their work. All of our editors have been thoroughly evaluated and tested to make sure they meet our standards of quality.Ĭopyediting is $45 per hour and involves checking and correcting spelling, grammar, punctuation checking for consistency and changing word choice and sentence structure to improve readability and/or clarify meaning. Maine Authors Publishing has a roster of several experienced copyeditors who we have trusted for years to meet a consistent level of excellence and to provide honest critical insight and courteous feedback for our many authors. Using the results of the Editorial Evaluation and based on the length of the manuscript, the editing supervisor will derive the cost for a copyeditor to complete editing. The manuscript is assessed in the following categories: Our head editor will review select passages from the work, including the beginning and the end of your book, and then will rank it in a number of categories based on how much attention will be required from the editor. The first step in our editing process is to submit your manuscript for an Editorial Evaluation, an in-depth analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of your manuscript. All editing is done using Microsoft Word Track Changes and the author has control of the final editing decisions. Our editing supervisor will assign your manuscript to an editor who will be the best fit for your book. Maine Authors Publishing has a team of professional editors who are required to pass a rigorous editing test before they are accepted.
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