Developmental editing is a great way to help determine what works and what doesn’t with your manuscript.
What is a Manuscript Evaluation?
Developmental editing will look at the content, structure, style, pacing, cohesiveness, format, plot and characters from the very first to very last page of your manuscript.
Developmental editing reviews and offers feedback content, structure, style, pacing, cohesiveness, format, plot and characters in your work, requires a SWOT analysis (identifies your work’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities for growth and threats to success), and requires a certain degree of author-editor collaboration. They both want to answer how readable is manuscript and how successful is your story at portraying what you want to portray.
Developmental editing comes after you have made substantial edits to your work/ after a manuscript evaluation (should you elect to have one) and is a great option for all authors, to see what works in their story, what gaps exist, which characters, scenes or chapters are superfluous, where pacing is a bit off and to help get your manuscript ready to send off to a publisher!
What do you Offer?
When you are happy with your manuscript and ready to get developmental editing, Cats, Coffee, Con Law is here to help!
What you will get:
- An analysis of your overall work
- An analysis of how well your work fits its genre
- Character, plot, and subplot analysis
- Dialogue & action feedback
- Pacing and readability feedback
- Content ordering feedback
- Multi-page editorial letter
- Formatting help
- Feedback on how well your book fits within its genre
- Tips to help you overcome manuscript issues (e.g., pacing, setting/character development, etc.)
- One-hour video chat with editor to discuss your feedback
How Much Does it Cost?
Cats Coffee Con Law believes in transparency!
Developmental editing costs $0.032 per word.
If you choose, you can send a 1,000 word sample to see how well you like my service that I will evaluate for you for free and to get a free-quote on what your manuscript would cost to get developmental editing!