(The following services are for manuscripts 40 pages or more.)

Editorial Review and Feedback
Are you looking for feedback to improve your manuscript? If you are confident in your writing but just want a second opinion on the content, this is the service for you. Precise Edit can provide global recommendations on your manuscript, as well as embed comments, recommendations, and questions within the text--which you can use to guide your revision.

Novels
Precise Edit provides feedback to help you strengthen the overall story. We consider plot structure, characterization, flow and pacing, supportive narration—basically all issues that draw your readers into the story, keep them reading, and leave them satisfied when done. We also offer you final story polishing, the detail work on a novel that can be most intensive, as well as copy editing and proofreading. Free consultation is available with any service.

Nonfiction Books
Nonfiction can be a powerful medium for communicating your ideas, information, and beliefs, but they must be written well to be effective. The information must be credible and logically organized, and the ideas must be justified and easy to understand. Precise Edit can help you meet these criteria so your readers will have the benefit of your knowledge.

What types of manuscripts do you work on?

Precise Edit can assist you with fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, both book length manuscripts (novels, nonfiction books, etc.) and short manuscripts (articles, short stories, etc.).

Whether your manuscript is 5 pages or 500 pages, we can help you prepare your manuscript for publication.

What can you do for me?

Many authors have relied on Precise Edit's services to improve the readability, marketability, and professionalism of their manuscripts. We help authors prepare quality manuscripts for submission and publication.

All of our services can be customized to meet your specific needs during the writing, editing, and publishing process. Common services include the following.

Editing and Revision: For authors seeking help improving their manuscripts, we offer various levels of editing and revision: from improving sentences and paragraphs, to improving flow and reader understanding, to making major changes to how you present your story or information. We work with the author to determine the level of service that best aligns with the author's needs and purposes, and we work closely with the author to ensure that we preserve the author's style and voice. (All editing services include proofreading.)

Proofreading: We correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage using our 3-stage quality process. We pay special attention to internal consistency.

Editorial Review and Feedback: For authors seeking advice on how to improve their manuscripts, we point out problems, provide recommendations, and offer solutions to improve reader use, understanding, and engagement.

How do we get started?

Send us your manuscript and a description of services you need. We will review the manuscript and prepare a quote for services. We do recommend that you call Precise Edit first to discuss your needs, target audience, style, and other critical issues.

Customized author services

If you have documents and editing needs that do not fit easily into other services, we would be pleased to discuss them with you. Precise Edit has worked on a very wide variety of document types, from textbooks to business cards, and the Precise Edit team has a breadth of knowledge that allows us to address most needs.

Our service options and business processes are flexible, which allows us to tailor our services to your needs. For example, Precise Edit can create monthly billing options for long-term services, and we can perform document flow management to make sure documents get to the right person, at the right time, during the development and publication cycle.

Feel free to contact Precise Edit to discuss your needs and how we may address them.

Note: Most book-length documents are eligible for significant price discounts. Rates below are base rates. Contact Precise Edit for a quote for services.

Manuscript Polishing, $8.50/page

• Make minor content edits (line edits) to improve reader engagement and understanding
• Proofread the manuscript
• Edit any supplementary text (your bio, jacket text, etc.)
• Format the manuscript according to publisher guidelines

Basic Support, $11.50/page

• Revise, edit, and proofread the manuscript, addressing both macro and micro editing issues
• Proofread the manuscript
• Edit the book summary
• Edit any supplementary text (your bio, jacket text, etc.)
• Format the manuscript according to publisher guidelines

Comprehensive Support, $14.00/page

• Analyze and review the manuscript
• Revise, edit, and proofread the manuscript, addressing both macro and micro editing issues
• Write or edit the book summary
• Edit any supplementary text (your bio, jacket text, etc.)
• Format the manuscript according to publisher guidelines
• Edit the publisher query/submission letter
• Provide additional support as needed

Proofreading, $4.95/page

• Proofread the manuscript prior to submission, using our 3-step quality process
• Correct any errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, word usage
• Format according to standard conventions

1 page = 300 words; only manuscript text is considered in the page count.

Editorial Review and Feedback, $2.50/page

• Read the manuscript deeply and critically
• Provide detailed comments, recommendations, and questions throughout the manuscript
• Prepare a separate document of global comments and recommendations

Simple Manuscript Review, $1.50/page

• Read the manuscript deeply and critically
• Prepare a separate document of global comments and recommendations