Once you’ve finished your final draft, you are ready for a copy edit. Chrysalis Editorial offers several levels of editing services, depending on your need.
There are three levels of editing: copy editing, line editing, and developmental editing. For our purposes, we consider developmental edits the same as a manuscript critique. This level of editing provides you with feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of your project, hones in on structure, voice, tension, and many other aspects of fiction and non-fiction writing. If that’s the service you think best suits your needs, please see our Manuscript Critique Service for more detailed information.
Often, writers request a combination of copy edits and a manuscript critique. While we charge differently for these two services, the fee is reduced when they are done simultaneously. However, we usually don’t recommend joining a copy edit with a critique. The reason is simple – if you are still in the revision phase, line edits may very well end up on the cutting-room floor. Hence, an early copy edit may be a waste of your money. Best to wait until after you’ve finished the final rewrite.
Copy Edit
A basic level of editing, which corrects errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax. Copy editing does not address the content or quality of your writing – it solely corrects technical errors.
Line Edit
A more detailed line-by-line process of editing, which corrects spelling, grammar and punctuation, but also includes suggestions of improvement in syntax, style, word choice and language register or diction, and paragraph and sentence construction.
Whether your project is a full-length novel, short fiction, an essay, or a work of non-fiction, our copy and line editing services will whip your piece into shape. This is what most manuscripts need before being submitted to agents, publishers, literary magazines, professors, etc.
There are three levels of editing: copy editing, line editing, and developmental editing. For our purposes, we consider developmental edits the same as a manuscript critique. This level of editing provides you with feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of your project, hones in on structure, voice, tension, and many other aspects of fiction and non-fiction writing. If that’s the service you think best suits your needs, please see our Manuscript Critique Service for more detailed information.
Often, writers request a combination of copy edits and a manuscript critique. While we charge differently for these two services, the fee is reduced when they are done simultaneously. However, we usually don’t recommend joining a copy edit with a critique. The reason is simple – if you are still in the revision phase, line edits may very well end up on the cutting-room floor. Hence, an early copy edit may be a waste of your money. Best to wait until after you’ve finished the final rewrite.
Copy Edit
A basic level of editing, which corrects errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax. Copy editing does not address the content or quality of your writing – it solely corrects technical errors.
Line Edit
A more detailed line-by-line process of editing, which corrects spelling, grammar and punctuation, but also includes suggestions of improvement in syntax, style, word choice and language register or diction, and paragraph and sentence construction.
Whether your project is a full-length novel, short fiction, an essay, or a work of non-fiction, our copy and line editing services will whip your piece into shape. This is what most manuscripts need before being submitted to agents, publishers, literary magazines, professors, etc.
Praise for Chrysalis Editorial
In being able to focus on detail and perspective, Herta gives her clients the best of both worlds. She is as talented with copy editing as she is with discussing broader structural issues. Her work clarified significant issues, enabling me to complete an immensely satisfying rewrite of my manuscript. Herta is perceptive and genuinely interested in the writer’s process. Her critique is generous, muscular, and thorough. I highly recommend her services.
- Sandra Hunter, Author, Losing Touch
- Sandra Hunter, Author, Losing Touch
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