![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With proofreads or other more mechanical edits, we follow the Chicago Manual of Style (the industry standard) and, in most cases, make direct changes to your text to correct inconsistencies, grammar, style, spelling, and formatting. We only advise that if we provide a suggestion to improve a piece of your work, there is likely some issue there that needs to be addressed, whether you choose to address it in the way we suggest or not. ![]() However, you are still the author, and you decide which changes to make. For the less direct, our experience still helps us sense the effects you were hoping for, and we strive to find a way for you to make the impact clear through revision. Some of those gems are more direct and others more indirect. A book dragon editor merely unburies and polishes the gems perceived in your work-and perhaps rewires a few synapses along the way. Everything we provide in ideas and suggestions to best achieve your goals (along with advocacy for your readership) all come out of what you’ve written. We work primarily in Word through direct comments to you on the manuscript and in editorial letters that help you improve your structure, plot, characters, voice, and setting. The Inky Bookwyrm editing philosophy centers on enhancing your individual voice-not subduing it. ![]()
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