Take your manuscript from Good to SOLD!
AuthorSpark delivers thorough, plain-language edits, one-on-one detailed discussions, workshops, and exercises designed specifically for each writer. No matter your skill level, we can work together to achieve a new level of writing excellence and professionalism.
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Fiction Editing
If you’ve got a first draft, whether you’re a seasoned professional or a new writer, we can help you take your manuscript to another level of excellence. With professional writing techniques, you’ll finish your revision and see marked improvement in your story.
Developmental Edit [sometimes called Content or Substantive Edit]
In this kind of edit, I provide a panoramic view from 40,000 feet. You will see your story as a whole, be able to identify the parts, and understand how they are working together. I’ll provide suggestions to address missing parts and how to make the whole thing more effective.
Your voice and your vision are paramount. The edit delivers a plan for you to make the wise choices about what to change and what to leave untouched. The parts of a novel I will address include
The overall structure (plot)
- Scene structure
- Characterization
- Pace
- Dialogue
- Point of view
- Setting
- Transitions
Line Edit
In a line edit, I travel through the manuscript several times, word by word, sentence by sentence. Protecting the author’s voice and vision for the story, I use Track Changes and comments to note and explain how to power up language and improve the read. I pay attention to:
- Consistency of voice, tone, spelling, capitalization, and characterization
- Grammar and punctuation
- Redundancy and the use of intentional repetition
- Echoed words
- Passive and active voice
- Point of view and head hopping
- Dialogue
- Missing words, wrong words, and typos
- Pacing and ways to improve it
- Suspense vs. surprise
- Ways to power up the language
A Comprehensive Edit includes both the developmental and line edit.
Free sample edit
For both fiction & nonfiction, we will edit the first three double-spaced pages, using Track Changes. The sample includes a half-hour phone meeting to discuss the edit.
Non-fiction Editing
From beginning idea to Mindmap to outline to Book Proposal, we’ve got you covered. And if you have a finished draft, your editor will polish that manuscript and make it the best it can be.
Memoir and Creative Non-fiction require a m
We do technical editing too.
Business Editing
We offer 24-hour turnaround for short projects. I edited at General Motors for twelves years. Some of my clients include: Hurley Hospital, Commercial Real Estate broker, the CRIM Race in Flint, MI., and University of Michigan, to name a few.
I do technical editing too.
One-on-One Mentoring
We come alongside and help you write the book from start to finish if that’s what you require. Or we can plan out a period of time to work together to accomplish a specific writing goal. My authors remember the lessons they’ve learned in these sessions, and all their future writing is better for it.
On Aug 31, 2022, Alex Bell wrote:
Hey, Teresa,
You’ve believed in this project from the get go, and you have trusted me and taught me so much. I just want it to be made known that I am very grateful to know you and have such an incredible collaborative relationship with you.
I told a Hollywood friend the other day that working with you has been the most intense, valuable, extraordinary creative experience of my life. Thank you for believing.
Cheers,
Alex
“Teresa has the global eye for the big picture—what works and what doesn’t work. She also has the eagle eye for detail so necessary in the final polishing stage before submission. Without fail, her valuable comments and suggestions are offered with skill, encouragement, honesty, and compassion.”
“Teresa Crumpton pinpoints and corrects the usual grammatical suspects, but she also makes suggestions that strengthen the plot, pace, character motivations, and more. She hunts down errors and weaknesses in the manuscript and builds confidence by highlighting the author’s strengths as well. Working with Teresa is a pleasure. She edits, polishes, motivates, and inspires. I value her detailed feedback, expertise, and experience.”
“Teresa Crumpton is an outstanding editor whose
knowledge, training, and suggestions helped me elevate
my writing to a marketable level. I was signed by an
international agent who sold not only my thriller, which
debuted December 2017, but the entire series.”
