Standard Editorial Services

God's Word Publishing has spent many years providing services to the most of the "traditional" publishing houses. Every time we produce a product for a publishers, there are certain "standard" editorial processes that each and every book a publisher produces receive. These include proofreading, copyediting, and/or development editing.

Proofreader - This is a check of the grammatical "nuts and bolts" done by an experienced editor. Our editor will work through your manuscript, correcting basic errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax.

Service Timeline: 2-3 weeks
Cost: $.012/wd.

Copy Editor - Proofreading is good and catches many mistakes, but most manuscripts can benefit from an Editor spending time on structure, flow, and consistency. Our Editor will work through your manuscript from start to finish—often reading it in its entirety two or three times. They will be looking for all the items covered in a Proofread, but also addressing sentence structure, outline, word choices, flow, tense and consistency. They will add queries, and suggest basic structural changes and make recommendations to improve readability. This is our most common editorial service.

Service Timeline: 2-3 weeks
Cost: $.015/wd.