Editorial services
The Book Consultancy has extensive experience providing editorial services to individuals, organisations and publishers. We have skilled, sensitive editors and meticulous proofreaders on hand to bring the highest possible quality to your work.
Want help smoothing out the wrinkles? Whether you're looking for a structural edit, a careful copy-edit, a sharp-eyed proofreader, or a specialist indexer, we have the right expert for you.
Our editorial team brings together specialists in different publishing fields, all of them passionate about books and committed to the highest professional standards. Get in touch to find out which of our services is the right fit for your project.
What we offer
Our skilled and sensitive editors work at both structural and sentence level. A structural edit looks at the architecture of your work — how it flows, whether the argument holds, whether the narrative works. A copy-edit refines the prose itself: clarity, consistency, tone and style.
We work with individual authors, organisations producing reports and publications, and publishers seeking freelance editorial support.
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Our meticulous proofreaders provide the vital final check before your work goes to print or publication — catching typos, inconsistencies, formatting errors and anything else that has slipped through the earlier editorial stages.
We proofread books, reports, websites, academic work and all kinds of professional documents. No job is too small.
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A good index is an indispensable tool for the reader of any serious non-fiction work. Our highly knowledgeable indexers produce clear, thorough, professionally structured indexes that make your book genuinely useful.
We work on academic, professional and trade non-fiction across a wide range of subjects. All our indexers are members of the Society of Indexers.
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Get in touch to find out more about how our professional editorial services can help ensure the highest possible quality for your work.