Manuscript Editing Services
Off the Grid Editing has provided manuscript editing services since 2002 for scholarly books, journal articles, novels and memoirs, and dissertations being revised for a press. Our editors work across the social sciences, humanities, nursing, law, and education, and every edit is returned with track changes on.
Our services are arranged below by kind of manuscript and by level of editing. An editor can recommend a level from a sample of your manuscript.
Installment plans are available for longer manuscripts. Contact us to arrange one before you order.
Our Promise
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.
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 for Your Kind of Manuscript
Scholarly monographs, nonfiction books, and edited collections, from a full book manuscript to a single chapter or a book proposal.
Research articles and essays edited to the journal's author guidelines and citation style, ready for submission or revise-and-resubmit.
Developmental and line editing that turns a dissertation into a book a university press will consider.
Novels, stories, and essays edited for clarity and consistency while keeping your voice.
Life stories edited for voice and chronology, from a family history to a memoir headed for a publisher.
Layout, cover design, printing, and binding for authors publishing on their own once the edit is done.
Levels of Manuscript Editing
Each level includes the work of the levels before it.
Spelling, punctuation, typos, and consistency, with grammar and usage corrected and your wording left as you wrote it.
Grammar, usage, and awkward phrasing, followed by work on clarity, concision, and sentence structure, with your style manual applied throughout.
Paragraph-level clarity: topic sentences, transitions, and sentences reordered within a paragraph, with every claim kept as you stated it.
Sections reordered, gaps in the argument repaired, and prose reshaped at length, with the scope agreed before work begins.
Margins, headings, pagination, contents, figures, and citations set to your press or journal guidelines.
Proofreading, copy editing, and line editing on 24-, 48-, and 72-hour deadlines for manuscripts with a fixed date.
Our publisher and journal pages cover what each one asks of authors. Start with academic presses, trade and literary publishers, or academic journals.