The four types of book editing are developmental editing, line editing, copyediting, and proofreading. Each fixes a different layer of the manuscript, and confusing them wastes money, because paying a copyeditor to fix commas in a chapter you later delete is the most common self-publishing mistake. This guide explains what each type does, what it…
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