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Lexington Books Manuscript Editing Services

Order Manuscript Editing Lexington Books is an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, part of Bloomsbury. Bloomsbury bought the Rowman & Littlefield academic business in 2024, and the Lexington and Rowman & Littlefield imprints together brought more than 40,000 academic titles into its list. Lexington publishes scholarly books.

Off the Grid Editing prepares manuscripts for Lexington in Chicago style and applies the press's own guidelines when you send them. Many scholarly books are read by people outside the author's home discipline, and our editors mark the places where a reader from an adjacent field would need a term defined or an assumption stated. The argument stays yours.

Human Manuscript Editor

Natural Intelligence for Lexington Books

Natural Intelligence is our name for editorial judgment: an editor who reads your manuscript the way a Lexington acquisitions editor will and verifies every change before it comes back to you. We also read as a scholar from a neighboring field would.

Our Promise

We will ensure that the final draft you receive is completely ready to submit to Lexington Books. 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.

Manuscript Editing Services for Lexington Books

We offer three levels of manuscript editing depending on what your manuscript needs. Each is described below so you can choose the service that fits where your draft is right now.

Manuscript Copy Editing

Grammar and usage, awkward phrasing, repetition, and passive voice corrected, then clarity, concision, sentence structure, transitions, and tone, with your style manual applied throughout and a final proofread. For authors whose argument and structure are settled.

Manuscript Line Editing

Clarity, emphasis, and paragraph structure: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every fact and claim kept as you wrote it. Includes copy editing and a final proofread.

Manuscript Proofreading

Spelling, punctuation, typos, capitalization, grammar, and usage corrected with minimal wording changes, for manuscripts that have been edited and need a last check before submission to Lexington Books.

Scholarly Argument for Lexington Books

Include any series guidelines or author instructions from your acquisitions editor, and we will apply them throughout. Our editors keep Chicago citations consistent and check that the disciplinary grounding of your argument is clear to readers from other fields. If you have questions about which service is right for your manuscript, contact us directly. We respond to every inquiry the same day during business hours.

For other presses, see our page on manuscript editing for academic presses. We also offer book and manuscript editing, developmental editing, and dissertation to book editing.

Manuscript Instant Invoice

Ready to prepare your manuscript for Lexington Books? Use our secure portal to generate an immediate, word-count-based quote and secure your delivery deadline.

Our editors do not have access to your manuscript until an order is placed.

Manuscript Instant Invoice

Direct Support

Reach our editorial team directly to discuss your manuscript, your Lexington Books submission timeline, or which service is right for your project. Initial consultations of up to 15 minutes are complimentary.