Editing Services

Inkwater Press encourages every author to invest in professional editing, as it is crucial to the credibility of the published work.  Nothing will turn a book reviewer or literary agent away more quickly than discovering a myriad of mistakes in grammar, spelling or basic sentence structure.  Errors in the text disrupt the flow and distract the reader, and professionals in the book world will not take the book seriously.  It is difficult to market a book that hasn’t been edited properly.

Our editorial staff has over 30 years of editing experience in literary, academic and professional fields.  Editing is performed using track changes in Microsoft Word.  The author has the opportunity to respond to individual changes, and must give his or her approval to the edit before we move forward to the design process.  While we don’t offer structural content editing services, our editors will identify gaps or inconsistencies in the story, tense changes and factual errors.

All copyediting services are preceded by an evaluation by our editing team to determine the extent of editing that is needed for a given work.  Our prices start at $0.02 per word, with a minimum fee of $200.00.