First and foremost, our company exists to help independent authors as much as possible and to ensure they have a polished product, ready for publishing.  Initially, we didn’t offer any editing services and wanted to focus specifically on cover and interior design.  Sadly, too many of our clients were being misled by organisations offering editing services and either taking deposits and not following through with any actual editing, or they would turn in an inferior edit.  After having to help out a client whose editor only made changes to the first half of her book, and made a terrible job of the first half, we thought it would be a good idea to offer it as an actual service rather than a last-minute rescue.

To that end, we tried to keep the prices as low as possible.  Yes, we’re aware that we should be charging at least twice as much, but that would only lead to our clients going elsewhere and risking a poor edit.  It’s a balancing act – we want them to be as professional as possible, so if we provide them with top-notch cover and interior designs and then their final product is let down by a substandard edit (knowing that the reason they went elsewhere was to save money), then we’re doing our clients a disservice.

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