Editing Services
We provide a wide range of editing services to authors, freelance journalists, media companies and businesses.
Whether you are looking to fix up your book, or just have a proper editor look at your book and make it print-ready, or if you need a freelance editor for any type of document, we supply this service.
Our wide range of skills provides a great edition to anyone's work.
Whether you are looking to fix up your book, or just have a proper editor look at your book and make it print-ready, or if you need a freelance editor for any type of document, we supply this service.
Our wide range of skills provides a great edition to anyone's work.
Are you writing a book? Then you are in the right place–here you will find the professional services of an Editor, Proofreader and Creative Writing expert to help you get your book right for publishing.
When you write, you will spend a lot of time tweaking and changing your manuscript. You will spend a lot of time fine-tuning it and changing things you don’t like about it, but this creates one problem - you become too close to the writing. And this causes you to read over the obvious mistakes.
People miss the spelling, grammatical or factual mistakes. But if you are serious about your book, then you need to get serious about finding a good Editor to help you make your novel great. You want to impress the publisher, and you definitely want to impress the reader!
You wouldn’t be happy reading something riddled with mistakes and, therefore, you should respect your reader in the same sense.
An Editor ensures your paragraphs and sentences are in the correct form, your tone of voice is written for the right target audience. This is where we come in. We know exactly what a book needs and what you need to make your book something great to read.
Obviously we cannot guarantee a sure sale on your book, but we can give you an honest fix and help make your book as good as possible. It just depends on how focused you are on getting to your end goal.
We will do our best to give you valued quality and friendly and worthwhile customer service to help you on your journey towards success.
Leandi Cameron is a bilingual first-language speaker in both English and Afrikaans, with a University Honours degree in Journalism, and is a published, bestselling author. She has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, a diploma in sub-editing and have 14 years experience in the media industry. She has extensive knowledge and study in the creative arts, and all of this together makes her someone who has a good grasp on the English language.
The services we offer depending on your budget.
We offer you four services:
1. An evaluation of your first three chapters (with comments and track changes in Microsoft Word function) The following issues will be checked:
3. A complete sub-editing (copy-editing) job using Microsoft Word’s ‘Track Changes’:
When proofreading a final product in a pdf format, we ensure that page elements are correct:
Once all the work has gone through this rigorous Editing process your book will look polished and professional. Reviewers will want to read your book, because it isn’t full of punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. You will also be able to send it to literary agents without worrying that it is riddled with mistakes.
When you write, you will spend a lot of time tweaking and changing your manuscript. You will spend a lot of time fine-tuning it and changing things you don’t like about it, but this creates one problem - you become too close to the writing. And this causes you to read over the obvious mistakes.
People miss the spelling, grammatical or factual mistakes. But if you are serious about your book, then you need to get serious about finding a good Editor to help you make your novel great. You want to impress the publisher, and you definitely want to impress the reader!
You wouldn’t be happy reading something riddled with mistakes and, therefore, you should respect your reader in the same sense.
An Editor ensures your paragraphs and sentences are in the correct form, your tone of voice is written for the right target audience. This is where we come in. We know exactly what a book needs and what you need to make your book something great to read.
Obviously we cannot guarantee a sure sale on your book, but we can give you an honest fix and help make your book as good as possible. It just depends on how focused you are on getting to your end goal.
We will do our best to give you valued quality and friendly and worthwhile customer service to help you on your journey towards success.
Leandi Cameron is a bilingual first-language speaker in both English and Afrikaans, with a University Honours degree in Journalism, and is a published, bestselling author. She has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, a diploma in sub-editing and have 14 years experience in the media industry. She has extensive knowledge and study in the creative arts, and all of this together makes her someone who has a good grasp on the English language.
The services we offer depending on your budget.
We offer you four services:
1. An evaluation of your first three chapters (with comments and track changes in Microsoft Word function) The following issues will be checked:
- Is your content tailored to your audience?
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Spelling
- Consistency of style for notes, bibliographies and citations
- General consistency of style
- Artwork and figure captions
- Quotations
3. A complete sub-editing (copy-editing) job using Microsoft Word’s ‘Track Changes’:
- Checking spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors
- Querying words/phrases that are not suited to your target reading audience
- Checking that you have sufficient sub-headings
- Checking your hierarchy of sub-headings
- Checking that the table of contents matches the chapter titles and running heads
- Checking sentences and paragraphs length and structure
- Correcting and checking consistency of spellings throughout manuscript
- Ensuring that all illustrations and tables are positioned correctly and captions styled consistently
- Create/check a list of artwork and tables in the preliminary pages to match the captions in the text
- Checking for libellous statements
- Checking that permissions have been sought for extensive prose quotes or for poetry or music lyrics
When proofreading a final product in a pdf format, we ensure that page elements are correct:
- Preliminary pages
- Table of contents checked against chapter headings
- Running heads
- Spacing between and around the various page elements correct
- Titles and subtitles
- Prose and verse extracts
- “Widows” and “orphans”
- End-of-line word breaks
- Number of words at the end of a paragraph on a new line
- Minimum number of characters on a line
- Minimum number of lines at the end of a chapter
- Page rectos and versos numbered oddly and evenly
- Pages numbered correctly and in the right order
- Correct spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors the copy editor missed
Once all the work has gone through this rigorous Editing process your book will look polished and professional. Reviewers will want to read your book, because it isn’t full of punctuation, spelling and grammar errors. You will also be able to send it to literary agents without worrying that it is riddled with mistakes.
