Request a Sample Developmental Edit

I believe that finding the right editor is crucial to revising your writing, and I am excited to offer my services to support you on your editing journey. Once you've finished multiple rounds of revisions on your draft, a sample edit is the next step to booking editing services for your manuscript. 

Substantive editing focuses on the big-picture story of your manuscript. Unlike line-editing or copy-editing (which works at the sentence-level), developmental editing focuses on the structure of your story by consider the entire manuscript. This editorial assessment is key to ensuring your manuscript's success as it considers your character's arc of change and the structure of your novel. A full edit is an intensive process as the editor works to help you improve the overall structure and maintain reader interest throughout the story. 

Hiring an editor is a bit like online dating. It's important that you and your editor are a match. Given the cost of a developmental edit, I cannot stress enough the importance of this choice. I provide sample edits as a free service to help you choose the right editor for you.  

Choose the Right Developmental Editor for You

A sample edit provides a example of my work so that you can make a decision about whether or not I am right for you. I highly recommend you seek out multiple sample edits to help with your choice to ensure maximum compatibility. An editor is a member of your book publishing team. 

I offer free sample edits to help you make this decision. This consists of an edit on 2000 words of your manuscript. This can be a first chapter or a scene. I will provide comments in the document and a brief blurb on the structure of the submission.

Please click the link below to submit the intake form!