What: A professional editor eliminates spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in your manuscript and ensures that the story has a consistent style and a smooth flow of text and ideas.

How: Your Client Services Manager sends the manuscript to an editor, who works with the writer by flagging sections and words that need clarification, offering suggestions and making minor changes for the sake of readability and correctness. While the editor shares ideas and makes recommendations, the biographer you have been working with usually incorporates the actual changes into the manuscript.

Why: It’s common wisdom that the writer is the worst person to correct their own work. Since they are so familiar with the text already, they cannot have the attention to detail needed to catch every mistake. A skilled editor fine tunes the manuscript so that it’s easy to read and error free.