Editorial Analysis

Does Your Manuscript Have What It Takes to Be a Publishing Success?

In addition to having a market for your book, the second most basic requirement for a successful book is for it not to contain misspellings, misplaced commas, incorrect punctuation, sentence fragments, inconsistent language, inappropriate (for the target market) terminology, or simply, bloopers.

In other words, for a book to be successful it must withstand the critics when it comes to language and editing. The best writing and editing takes the reader’s attention off the writing itself and gets them involved in the message. A well-written and edited manuscript gets readers to focus on the message, and not on the writing. Your readers may forgive you the first couple of mistakes in the book, but if they get stopped by more than a few misspellings or awkward language, they will lose focus on what you want to tell them (the message) and concentrate on how you’re telling them (the writing). A sarcastic customer review on the Amazon or Barnes & Noble websites is definitely NOT the first time you want to hear that your book needs some more editing work! You will wish you had not published the book at all. If you cannot launch a quality product to your market—a well-written and edited book—you’d be better advised not to publish it ... at least not until it is professionally edited and produced.

Before you consider releasing your manuscript to any publisher for publication, you need to have a professional editor inspect your manuscript. If your manuscript needs work, you want to know this now, before you invest in potentially costly book production.

Have a Professional Editor Evaluate Your Work

We’ve developed the Wheatmark Editorial Analysis (1-2 weeks) to provide just this first line of defense against potentially harmful reviews and a bad reputation. A senior-level editor will assess your manuscript to determine the level of editing needed to conform to today’s standard publishing guidelines. The 10-to-15-page checklist provides feedback and recommendations on the overall text (audience, tone), English usage (grammar, spelling, punctuation), content (ambiguities, text flow problems), formatting issues, notes or bibliography errors, potential permissions issues, and other editorial notes. The analysis uses a 10-point scale to score your manuscript on these editorial issues, and also includes a sample edit (about five pages) to illustrate exactly how the prescribed level of edit would affect your writing.

To get started on this important first step:

Order the Editorial Analysis Today!

As both those authors who have taken this first step and those who have not will tell you: “You’ll be glad you did!”