Our Services
Editing Services
Cat & Quill offers editing services for many areas of writing, some of which are listed below:
Literary Clients
Fiction: short stories, novels, writing contests, e-books. Creative non-fiction: journal entries, biographies and autobiographies, memoirs. Non-fiction: academic essays, theses, and dissertations; magazine articles. Proposals and deliverables; correspondence and company documents; technical publications; brochures, flyers, advertisements, and web copy; manuals and instructional materials; newsletters.
Business Clients
We provide editing services on four levels. Our clients can choose the service that best fits their needs, or combine levels for a custom solution.
Sometimes editing jobs require more than one read-through, depending upon the level of editing necessary. As an added value, if we determine your piece would benefit, we will use two or more editors for multiple read-throughs, ensuring fresh eyes and accuracy.
Proofreading
This bare-bones service is a final read-through of a polished document or manuscript before it is submitted for publishing. The focus is on catching typos and formatting errors. The service features fast turn-around time and low rates.
Light editing
The focus of this service is on the basics—spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization. Tables of content, numbered lists, and table and figure numbers are reviewed. One read-through is normal.
Copyediting
This service is our most requested level of editing. In addition to the focus points of a light editing job, the copyediting service concentrates further on syntax, numbers, abbreviations, and gender neutrality. We carefully consider content and ensure that your writing strictly adheres to specified style. Depending on the quality of writing, more than one read-through may be required.
Substantive editing
The most thorough of our services, substantive (or heavy) editing takes copyediting to a higher level. We watch for organizational weakness, lack of focus, redundancies, wordiness, triteness, vague generalizations, and weak sentence style; through notation, we make suggestions for corrective changes. This service typically requires two or more read-throughs to guarantee the highest quality results.
