Editorial Services
While your goal is to publish that groundbreaking book and get it out to the world, you would definitely want it to be flawless, unique and inimitable. At Blue Pencil, armed with widely published authors with impeccable background in English and Creative Writing, we are committed to provide you with discerning editorial support for all your writing projects.
Our editors also understand that as the author of your own writing, you would be extremely sensitive to changes, so our valuable editorial support will work closely with you to make sure you maintain your original voice and perspective as an author, while holding your hand to evaluate, edit and revise your work in a cost-effective, professional and timely manner.
- Book Manuscripts
- Biography, Memoir or Autobiographical Writing
- Features / Essay Collections
- Academic Writing / Research papers
- Articles / Journal Articles
- Newsletters
- Marketing Collateral
- Website Content
- Annual Reports
- Manuals
- Fiction Manuscripts / Novels
- Short Story Anthologies
- Novellas
- Children's Fiction
- Fiction Written by Children
Developmental Editing
- Extensive suggestions to the author: Discussing the art and craft of the novel or story, providing valuable critique in all aspects of the book, including characterization, plot development, settings, incidents and dialogues.
- Providing advice to maintain and enhance the uniqueness of your style and the fluidity of your language.
- Focusing on the language and content components, in addition to structure and over all presentation
Copyediting
- Focusing on grammar, syntax, word choice, and sentence construction.
- Checking the consistency, format, style, tone and voice
- Words and phrases, sentences, paragraphs, punctuation and spellings
Proofreading
- Checking each piece of content for typos, formatting issues, extra spaces, etc to create for you a clean and press-ready copy
- Tracked revisions for you to review all the changes that have been made
- Spellings and typo correction
- Punctuation & word spacing corrections
- Capitalization and Casing rectification
- Formatting (Bold/Italics) corrections
[1 Page = 325 words maximum]
| Words / Pages | Delivery | Days | Editing Service (+ 18% GST) |
Proofreading (+ 18% GST) |
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| 1 | Upto 325 words / 1 Page |
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| 2 | Upto 975 words / 3 Pages |
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| 3 | Upto 1950 words / 6 Pages |
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| 4 | Upto 2925 words / 9 Pages |
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| 5 | Upto 3900 words / 12 Pages |
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| 6 | Upto 4875 words / 15 Pages |
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| 7 | Upto 9750 words / 30 Pages |
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| 8 | Above 30 pages |
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Testimonials
“Antara and her team at Blue Pencil did a fabulous job proofreading our book draft. The Blue Pencil team is extremely cooperative, quite responsive, and addressed all of our concerns. We are quite satisfied with the work and would definitely engage Blue Pencil again”
