Editorial Services
You click “Save” on your computer, then sit back and smile. You’ve done it – you have finished your book. You’ve given your heart and soul – and what feels like a good chunk of your life – into putting it all together to share with the world …
But then you start thinking: Is it the very best that it can be? Will anyone even want to read it? Will an agent or publisher want to look at it?
With more than a decade of experience as an editor, John David Kudrick, MA in Journalism (Professional Writing: Fiction), understands the gamut of feelings that comes with getting your manuscript from your hard drive onto the shelf at your local bookstore. That’s why he offers editing services that can help you take your book to the next level, whatever stage you may be at after you’ve written it …
- Manuscript Diagnostic – Get a big-picture look at your manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses, with a general evaluation sheet and a list of recommended action steps to take your book from good to great.
- Developmental Editing – With a detailed evaluation document and page-by-page comments/suggestions throughout your manuscript, find out exactly how you can make your good book even better.
- Substantive Editing – Receive guidance and hands-on editorial help from John David in reorganizing and revising your manuscript to take care of style, structure, content, flow, continuity, and thematic issues. Also includes copyediting and proofreading.
- Copyediting – Got the big-picture stuff down already? Then let John David take care of grammar, word usage, tone, format, and more with a copyedit that will add a shine to your manuscript. Also includes proofreading.
- Proofreading – Don’t let your manuscript get tossed aside because of a misspelled word or misplaced punctuation. Get your book as clean as can be by allowing John David to read through it and fix typos, inconsistencies, misspellings, and punctuation problems.
- Book Proposal Development – Manuscript ready for submission? Then you’re ready to develop your book proposal. Together, you and John David will create a compelling, well-crafted document that’s a necessity in getting published.
As an editor, John David has been privileged to work with some of the finest publishers in the nation, including David C. Cook, NavPress, Realms Fiction, Marcher Lord Press, and Whitaker House (where as senior editor he worked on James Byron Huggins’ Nightbringer, a book that Library Journal named one of its annual top five Christian novels).
When he’s not helping authors fine-tune their manuscripts, John David spends as much time as possible with his wife, Sheila, and their three kids in western Pennsylvania where they make their home. He also enjoys attending and volunteering as a writer/editor for their home church.
Contact John David today to discover how he can serve your editing needs.