What I can take off your plate.

There is no single job called editing. A proofread catches what is wrong; a line edit changes how it sounds; a structural edit changes what order it happens in. Ask for the wrong one and you pay for work you did not need, or get back a file that still has the problem you were worried about.

Send a sample and I will tell you which level your draft actually needs, even when that is the cheaper one.

Copywriting is writing from scratch, or rewriting so heavily that it amounts to the same thing. If your text already exists and mostly works, you probably want editing instead — it costs less and keeps more of you in it.

Translated, not swapped over. Some words do not cross — _saudade_ has no English equivalent, so the decision is whether to keep it and let the sentence carry the meaning. Those choices come back to you as notes, not as silent edits.

Design here means the object around the writing: the cover someone judges the book by, and the marketing that carries it. It is a separate job from formatting, which is the inside of the book rather than the outside.

Formatting is the inside of the book: margins, running heads, where a chapter starts, and what happens to a long line of poetry when the page is narrower than the poet imagined. Printers reject files for this more often than for anything else.

A mock-up is the sales tool you need before you have stock, and the last chance to notice that the spine text is too tight. The poet approved a cover by holding the render up to a shelf.