Question 1

What's your new client process like?

Accepted Answer

We'll start with the first chapter of your manuscript, marking it up, making comments, and assessing how long it'll take us to edit the whole book based on that sample.
We then return your first chapter with a price quote.
If you're satisfied with our work and cost, and you'd like to proceed, we then send you an IBGW contract and start work on the dates specified.

Question 2

What's the editing process like?

Accepted Answer

We comb through your manuscript, keeping your voice as intact as possible, and hunt down every error we find regarding consistency, punctuation, syntax, and grammar. Our #1 goal is to help you keep your voice intact while helping you produce the best version of your book possible. There are rare moments when we suggest you go through a developmental edit before we'll touch the work, but those are few and far between. We like to work with what you have, and if rewrites are needed, we let you do them.

After first round edits, we send the manuscript back to you for any changes then go through those changes once more.

Your book will then be sent to an in-house proofreader (paid by the editor), so there's a last line of defense against those nagging, missed errors.

You then get a clean copy of your manuscript to do with what you wish.

Question 3

What's the formatting process like?

Accepted Answer

Our formatters will look at your blurb and the feeling surrounding your book before they begin. You'll then get a small sample of the artwork they've chosen, along with a font that fits the genre, and you get to request changes.

Once the artwork is approved, your formatter will create a book based on what you need (paperback, epub, etc.) and return it to you, no errors from your printer guaranteed.

Question 4

What are your payment terms like?

Accepted Answer

For editing, we require half up front and the rest when the job is complete.

For formatting, we require 100% up front.

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What's your new client process like?

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