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EDITOR’S TIP: CLEANING UP YOUR MANUSCRIPT CAN SAVE YOU MONEY

By: Corina Koch MacLeod

Did you know there are ways to save money on editing costs? If your editor charges by the hour (and many do), every extra task she or he has to do to get your manuscript ready for editing takes time and costs you money.

That's right: there are some tasks editors need to complete beforebeginning an editing job. You can save money by handling those "before editing" tasks yourself, and instead spend your money on what editors do best: polish your writing.

So, what do editors do to get a manuscript ready for editing? They "clean up" the manuscript by removing extra and incorrectly applied formatting, such as: 

• Extra spaces after end punctuation (one space, not two)
• Excessive use of the space bar
• Manual tabs (use the paragraph style in your Word processor to indent paragraphs)
• Extra spaces between paragraphs
• Underlining
• Boldface and italics, used incorrectly
• Excessive use of "fancy fonts" (try to stick to two fonts for your entire book; choose ebook-friendly fonts)

So, how can you address these items on your own? Take a page from the copyeditor's book!

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