Pat is an experienced editor and offers the following services:
Manuscript critique: A detailed editorial letter of no less than 2500 words addressing issues such as theme, plot, character development, and story arc. Specific examples will be taken from your manuscript to illustrate editorial recommendations.
Line editing (Rewriting for style): looks at subjective details on a line-by-line basis including writing style, creative content, sentence structure, word choice, readability, flow, and rhythm. Clarity for the reader in descriptions. Character voice consistency, scene consistency (e.g. making sure a character with her arms full of books doesn’t cross her arms later in the scene).
Copy editing (Correction): A copy edit is a technical revision that focuses on objective errors such as spelling, grammar, and punctuation as well as consistency in terms of names, numbers, and locations. Addresses verb tenses, typos, missing/repeated words, double spaces, formatting, and may include smoothing out of some stylistic roughness.
Proofreading: The final step before publication. Similar to a copy edit but focuses only on objective errors—nothing stylistic—and on catching them all. The least expensive but certainly not the least important of the three types of editing offered.
Here’s what his clients have to say:
“Patrick Weill is FANTASTIC. I am so happy I hired him and plan to do it for the next book as well. He was excellent for the foreign language aspect of my book (I had a lot of foreign words and phrases throughout), and he was so pleasant to work with – easy to speak with, fast to respond, clear in his understanding and execution.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND PATRICK AS AN EDITOR
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