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City Guides for Writers: Libraries, Bookstores, Presses, and Editing

Order Manuscript Editing Every city here has public and university libraries open to writers, independent bookstores that host readings, and presses close at hand. Search for a city, a university, a press, or a journal. Each result links the city's guide along with our pages for the presses and journals edited there and the grants pages for its universities at Editors For Students.

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We will ensure that the final draft you receive from us is completely ready to publish or submit. We work with you until it is ready or refund your payment in full. That commitment has held since 2002.

Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed. Your draft is secure until you decide to proceed.

Presses and Journals

Our guides to academic presses, trade and literary publishers, and peer-reviewed journals describe what each one asks of authors.

When the Manuscript Is Ready

Off the Grid Editing has edited books and scholarship since 2002.

Publishing Scholarship

For a monograph, an edited collection, or a revised dissertation headed to a university press: dissertation to book editing, our guides to academic press requirements, English language editing for researchers, and journal article editing.

Publishing Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry

For a novel, a story collection, a memoir, or a book of poems: fiction and creative nonfiction editing, memoir and biography editing, developmental editing, and our guides to trade and literary publishers.

Every manuscript can also go through copy editing, line editing, or proofreading. The book editing services page compares all four levels.

Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Off the Grid Editing. Places and links checked November 2026.

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