PROJECT NAME Military / Literary Fiction Novel — Line Editing and Story Review

PROJECT DESCRIPTION I am seeking an experienced fiction editor for an approximately 100,000-word military drama set aboard a U.S. Navy submarine. The novel follows a young sailor’s journey through belonging, military service, trauma, and loss. I need an editor who can strengthen the manuscript while preserving my voice, emotional intensity, and the authenticity of military dialogue. Scope of work: • Line editing to improve clarity, sentence flow, dialogue, and readability. • Correction of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and inconsistencies. • Identification of repetition, unnecessary exposition, and awkward phrasing. • Editorial comments on pacing, character development, plot holes, timeline inconsistencies, and confusing scenes. • Suggestions for improvement where substantial rewriting may be needed. Deliverables: • An edited Microsoft Word manuscript with Track Changes. • A clean version with proposed edits accepted. • An editorial letter explaining the main strengths, weaknesses, and recommended revisions. • A style sheet recording spelling, character names, terminology, and consistency decisions. Relevant experience: Please have demonstrable experience editing adult fiction. Experience with military fiction, psychological drama, or literary fiction would be particularly useful. Please state whether you can assess U.S. Navy and submarine terminology; specialist fact-checking can be quoted separately. In your proposal, please include: • Relevant editing experience and examples. • Your total fee for the stated scope. • Your estimated turnaround time. • Whether one round of follow-up questions is included. • Your willingness to complete a short, paid sample edit before the full project is awarded. Please explain your editing process and disclose any use of AI tools. The manuscript must remain confidential and must not be uploaded to third-party AI services without my written permission. If you recommend separate developmental and line-editing stages, please quote them separately and explain why.