Editing Services

Whether your manuscript was written for personal creative pleasure or from study obligations, the last thing you probably feel like doing is going over it again … and again … and again. We understand this feeling – we were both writers before practising as editors. 

 

We'll do the hard work of minutely examining your draft with a fresh pair of eyes. Often writers have been so involved with their writing they may no longer 'see' their words objectively.

 

Remember, once your words are published, whether in print or electronic format, they have 'flown' and rarely can be withdrawn.

The way we use punctuation, vocabulary and grammar is constantly evolving but these technical details are what make a piece of writing understandable, correct and a pleasure to read.

After all, writing is about communication, and communication is about exchanging information and understanding it.

We can also advise you about copyright, CiP, ISBN and other legal matters as well as provide information about publishing your manuscript.

We invite works of fiction, non-fiction, student assignments, reports, CVs and others. 

 

We take great pride and pleasure in guiding words to their final desinations and in shaping the final product to best reflect the writing that you have created.

 

Send us an email for a schedule of our very reasonable fees and a discussion of your manuscript.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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The limits of my language means the limits of my world

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Ludwig Wittgenstein

Are you unsure about grammar? Confused about punctuation?

 

Do you have  an assignment ready to be submitted or a book you've spent months writing and would like to publish?

 

Your creative work is finally finished and now is the time for your manuscript to be edited and polished to give it the best chance for appraisal or publishing.

 

We will bring our combined experience to construct the most appealing and publishable end result.

Why shouldn't we quarrel about a word? What is the good if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them?

                                                        GK Chesterton

Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

                                                   Samuel Johnson

Of every four words I write, I strike out four.

                                                      Nicolas Boileau

And once sent out, a word takes wing beyond recall.

                                                                  Horace

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

 

                                                   Rudyard Kipling