Comprehensive Book Editing

There are three phases of editing. Each has a unique focus and the fresh eyes of a different editor to ensure your book content is refined to shine:

1. Developmental book editing is the deep meat and bones work that ensures:

structure
text organization
transitions of thought
readability – thought clarity, inferences, word choices, sentence structure and order
style issues – this work is more in-depth in line editing: ensures application of style rules according your genre's style manual, most often the Chicago Manual of Style
language fit to audience
development of ideas (where needed)
paragraph and chapter arrangement
section headers
focus of point
identification of missing source information
verification of Bible text and references of quoted scriptures
insertion of any missing front matter

FICTION will include the above and also

2. Line editing further refines the content by applying and ensuring

3. Proofreading is two-part and the final fresh eyes before print and e-book publishing

helps to ensure that all errors are caught in the text content
helps to ensure that all errors are caught in the book's formatting -- a cover to cover review

Your book is ready for developmental editing when you have:

completed the raw writing to the best of your ability,
included all information (including any quotes) you wish to convey to readers from start to finish,
included your SOURCE information for every quote, data, photo, illustration, and anything else you've included from a third party. For example, information you've sourced from a website: include the ENTIRE LINK STRING to the exact page from where you pulled your information. Example: https://www.almanac.com/beekeeping-101-collecting-honey#

OF COURSE, if you need assistance with any aspect of the preparation, you've got it!