Our Editing Services

Developmental Editing (Story/Content)

Make your romance unskippable—at the architecture level.
Developmental editing is where we shape the reading experience your blurb promises. We examine your tropes, beats, arcs, pacing, and stakes to be sure the emotional journey delivers: meet-cute that actually hooks, a midpoint that re-aims the book, a dark moment that costs something, and a grand gesture/HEA(HFN) that feels inevitable and earned. We map Goal–Motivation–Conflict, escalate internal and external pressure in tandem, and ensure chemistry rises in believable, consent-clear steps—especially in high-heat or dark niches.

What’s included

• Editorial Letter (8–15+ pages) with a step-by-step plan

• Beat & Trope Map (meet-cute → midpoint → breakup/dark moment → grand gesture/HEA/HFN)

• Conflict & Chemistry Ladders (internal/external stakes + intimacy pacing)

• Margin notes + next-chapter prompts

• Optional: blurb skeleton aligned to the revised book

Timeline: ~4–6 weeks · From: $0.015/word-$0.018/word

Line Editing (Style/Voice)

Tighten the prose. Turn up the swoon.
Line editing takes a structurally sound draft and makes it sing. We work at the sentence and paragraph level to refine cadence, clarity, and POV filtering, trimming filler and repetition while preserving your voice. Dialogue gets snappier; interiority gets cleaner; transitions pull readers forward; images and sensual detail feel precise—not purple. In heat scenes, we balance elegance and explicitness, ensuring body mechanics are clear while the moment stays hot and on-brand for your subgenre.

Because we specialize in romance, we pay special attention to banter rhythm, emotional beats, and intimacy pacing, so a scene lands exactly as intense, tender, or devastating as you intend. We flag head-hops, sharpen word choice, and smooth micro-stumbles that break immersion. You’ll see tracked changes plus reasoning, so the polish feels like you on your best day, not a voice transplant. The result: prose that reads clean, confident, and addictive—ready for copyedit/proofing and ads/ARCs.

What’s included

• Tracked changes with sentence-level suggestions

• Clarity & flow: trim filler, smooth transitions, reduce repetition

• POV & interiority: no head-hops, cleaner filtering

• Dialogue/banter polish; heat scene precision

Timeline: ~4–6 weeks · From: $0.012/word-$0.015/word

Copyediting (Correctness/Consistency)

Lock the details before you hit publish.
Copyediting is the clean-up pass that makes a strong manuscript correct and consistent. After structure (dev) and style (line) are set, we sweep for grammar, usage, hyphenation, and house-style choices (CMOS and industry standard); align names, timelines, and world terms. For romance, that means consistent trope language (e.g., why-choose, grumpy–sunshine), clear treatment of heat terminology, credible logistics in dates/times/seasons, and zero continuity whiplash—so readers stay immersed and your brand looks buttoned-up.

What’s included

• Tracked changes for grammar, usage, punctuation, and hyphenation
• Consistency audit: names, places, spellings, ranks/titles, timeline sanity checks
• Dialogue & mechanics polish: quotation/italic rules, ellipses/dashes, dialogue tag punctuation
• Trope/metadata alignment: standardizing searchable terms readers expect (e.g., fated mates, marriage of convenience)
• Query comments where author intent isn’t 100% clear (you keep final say)
  

Ideal for

• Manuscripts that have completed line editing and are ready for a correctness pass
• Series titles needing continuity protection across books
• Romantasy/PNR worlds with specialized terms, ranks, or magic systems

   

What it’s not

• Sentence rewriting for voice/flow (that’s Line Editing)
• Layout/typo check (that’s Proofreading)
• Formatting (that’s for your formatter, although we can do that, too)

Timeline: ~4–6 weeks · From: $0.009/word-$0.011/word

Proofreading (Final “Last Eyes”)

Protect your credibility at publish.
After formatting, we hunt typos, punctuation misses, consistency errors, and layout issues—so your HEA lands clean on every device and in print.

What’s included

• Typos, punctuation, numerals/time formats per style sheet

• Consistency: quotes/dashes/italics; names/terms; timeline crumbs

• Layout checks: scene breaks, widows/orphan

Timeline: ~5–10 business days · From: $0.005/word-$0.008/word

Wordsmith Edit (Hands-On Dev + Implementation)

When you want the diagnosis and the fix.
A Wordsmith Edit is a developmental edit where we also apply the changes for you—shaping beats, deepening arcs, sharpening conflict, and adding word count where the story needs breath. We preserve your voice while rebuilding scenes, stitching transitions, and upgrading hooks so the book reads like the version you meant to write.

What’s included

• Full dev assessment letter + in-manuscript rewrites/expansions (tracked)

• Hook & chapter-end upgrades; smoother transitions

• Chemistry & heat pacing adjustments

• Optional: refreshed blurb skeleton
  

Timeline: ~6–8 weeks · From: $0.21/word

Fusion Edit (Developmental + Line in One)

Structure meets style—without the gaps between stages.
We lock your story architecture first, and refine sentence-level voice on the draft—executed by the same team so line choices serve the new structure. Fewer handoffs, faster turnaround, stronger results.

What’s included

• Dev pass: editorial letter, beat/trope map, chemistry/conflict ladders, margin notes

• Line pass: cadence/clarity edits, POV filtering, dialogue/banter, heat finess

Timeline: ~4–8 weeks · From: $0.018/word

Hook, Line & Swoon Edit (Openings • Endings • White Space)

Open strong. Close addictive. Read clean.
Readers decide to keep going in the first 5–8 lines of a chapter—and whether to click “next” in the last 5–8. This swift, high-leverage pass tightens anchors (who/where/why now), sharpens micro-tension, converts soft exits into turns or promises, and tunes white-space cadence for KU/mobile.

What’s included

• Opening checks (first 3–6 paragraphs per chapter)

• Ending checks (last 3–6 paragraphs)

• White-space audit: paragraph variety, dialogue density, break visibility

• In-doc comments on every chapter

Timeline: ~2–4 weeks · From: $15 Per Chapter

Our Process (simple & transparent)

1. Blueprint Intake: Subgenre, tropes, heat, goals, deadlines.

2. Sample/Scope Check: We confirm the right level of edit.

3. Edit in Motion: We work in Google Docs/Word with tracked changes.

4. Debrief: Editorial letter/File Delivery + next steps.

5. Follow-through: We’re available for targeted questions as you revise.

Tools: Google Docs or Word File · Delivery: Doc links or files sent directly to your inbox