Proofreading – Purely Prose

Proofreading Services

Proofreading – who it’s for

Once your book has been through a professional line- and copyedit, you need a quality-control check before you publish.

A proofread is the final tidy-up that looks out for any problems that have slipped through previous rounds of editing and formatting. It’s the last line of defence before you go live.

If your novel hasn’t been through previous rounds of professional editing, this service probably isn’t for you.

What you get:

1.A full word-by-word prepublication check
I’ll proofread your novel line by line and fix any remaining red flags that could distract your reader. The focus will be on the following:

Consistency in design of text and image elements
Consistent hyphenation and capitalization
Dialogue punctuation
Highlighting of stacked hyphens
Homophones and homonyms
Pagination and chapter sequencing
Paragraph and section breaks
Problematic representation, stereotyping and othering
Removal of extraneous letter and line spaces
Standard and consistent spelling, grammar and punctuation
Standard paragraph indentation
Widows, orphans and short lines

2. A style sheet
In your style sheet, I’ll record decisions about hyphenation, numbering, capitalization, spelling, punctuation style and idiom usage.