Guaranteed professional editing and proofreading services

Allowing someone to edit your work is very personal, so it’s important to find an editor who you feel comfortable working with. We have long years of copy-editing experience behind us, working on books, magazines and newspapers. It’s not a very glamorous job; it’s the copy editor who slogs away in the trenches till all hours while her boss is out having drinks with clients.

Copy editors are finickity pernickity people who can’t bear to leave Ts uncrossed, proper and place names ungoogled and words to chance.

Every book requires an emphasis on different skills because all writers have their strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes words are misspelled or grammar is used incorrectly. Other times there may be bad sentence structure, mixed metaphors and a prevalence of tired clichés etc. There can also be structural problems that have to do with the flow of paragraphs, chapters or entire books. Some copy is basically “clean”, and requires very little editing. All this said, Self Publish SA recognises and respects authors different writing styles and we don’t go changing things around to make them the way we would like them to be.

If you would like us to have a look at your work, send through an email with a chapter and we will assess it and send it back with the changes colour coded for you to see what work has been done. We will also determine a rand rate per page of editing based on a sample of the work.