Book Proofreading · Author’s Craft
One typo on page 3 costs more credibility than a hundred perfect pages earn. Proofreading is the final forensic pass that finds it before your readers do.
Proofreading is not editing — it is the last, meticulous hunt through your formatted book for everything that slipped past every earlier stage: the missing quotation mark, the doubled word, the hyphenation error, the chapter heading in the wrong typeface, the page number that skipped. Our proofreaders work on the typeset PDF (or final ePub), because errors hide in layout as often as in language.
The deliverable is a precise, annotated correction list your formatter can execute in one pass — or that we execute ourselves if we formatted the book. It is the cheapest insurance in publishing, and the difference between reviews that mention your story and reviews that mention your typos.
Performed on the final formatted files, where layout errors actually live.
Typos, doubled words, punctuation, capitalization and tense slips.
Headers, page numbers, TOC accuracy, spacing, widows and orphans.
Names, hyphenation choices and styling verified against the style sheet.
A clean, numbered list your formatter executes in one pass.
We confirm corrections were applied before you hit publish.
FAQ
Copyediting fixes the manuscript; proofreading verifies the final formatted book. If your book is already edited and typeset, proofreading is the right last step.
Most full-length books are completed in 5-10 business days.
Not at all. KDP and IngramSpark allow file updates; we proof the live edition and fix it for every future copy.
Yes — ePub-stage proofing catches reflow and device-specific issues print proofing can’t.
