
What Developmental Editing Is and Costs
Developmental editing means significant restructuring of a manuscript before sentences get polished, and EFA fiction medians run 3.0 to 3.5 cents a word.

Developmental editing means significant restructuring of a manuscript before sentences get polished, and EFA fiction medians run 3.0 to 3.5 cents a word.

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