Before submitting your manuscript to us, you should proofread it (or arrange for others to proofread it), so that more of the small mistakes are caught and corrected before sending it to us for more in-depth editing. Ask your proofreaders quite specifically to correct errors (the “track changes” feature in Word is an immensely useful function to see what people would change), rather than just to agree with you that the book is good.
We will give your manuscript a thorough round of copy editing and content editing, often with a second such pass, and then a final round of proofreading.
We will not charge you for our editing services. These are included within the service of publishing your book.
However, if your manuscript is messy, and the draft quality is poor, we may send it back to you for improvement to bring it up to an acceptable standard for submission, to give us a reasonable playing field to begin our own editing without wasting time and effort on issues that should have been fixed before submission.
For each project we receive, we will use our standard professional editing rates to calculate the value of our investment of time and effort into editing the book.
It is important to understand that it is the author’s responsibility to produce and submit a well-written manuscript that is as correct as possible. It is not our responsibility to take a jumble of words and turn them into something good – our task is to take a well-written manuscript and improve it further, ready for publication.