Editing isn't about rewriting your book in someone else's words. Our editors work through pacing, structure and sentence flow, looking at where a chapter drags, where the tone shifts unexpectedly or where a paragraph is doing more work than it needs to. Your voice stays exactly where it should be, at the centre of the book, while the parts around it get the attention they need.
However carefully you've read your own manuscript, some things are almost impossible to spot in your own writing. A repeated word, an inconsistent spelling of a character's name, a missing full stop- these are the kind of small errors that slip past even a careful author simply because you already know what the sentence is supposed to say. Our proofreaders go through the manuscript specifically looking for these remaining inconsistencies, so nothing distracts a reader from the story itself.
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A finished draft and a finished book aren't quite the same thing. Between the two sits the work of checking that every chapter holds together, that the tone doesn't wander, and that the small errors which build up over months of writing get caught before a reader ever sees them. Cambridge Publishing House approaches editing and proofreading as two related but different jobs, one focused on how well the manuscript reads, the other on making sure it's clean and accurate. Get in touch when you're ready to have your manuscript properly reviewed.
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Editing looks at the shape of your manuscript, its clarity, consistency and readability. Proofreading comes after, catching the spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting details that remain once the bigger structural work is done. Between the two, we cover:
Editing that respects an author's voice is harder than it sounds, and it's the part we pay closest attention to. Every note we leave is aimed at making your manuscript clearer and more consistent, never at making it sound like someone else wrote it.
We keep you involved throughout, explaining the reasoning behind our suggestions rather than simply handing back a marked-up file. By the time we're finished, you'll have a manuscript that reads cleanly from the first page to the last, with the errors gone and the voice still unmistakably yours.
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