Services

Editing and Formatting

Even Pulitzer Prize-winning authors have editors reviewing their work for inconsistencies, errors, repetitive passages and so on. Why not give your book the same level of unbiased scrutiny?

Editor's Analysis $300.00 (Included in the Publishing Pack)

You've slaved over every word. You've written and rewritten. You've tried, to no avail, to view it objectively. After all of that, isn't it worth paying a professional editor to help you make your book as professional and technically accurate as possible?

With the Lulu Editor's Analysis service, a professional copy editor reviews your book to give you eight pages of invaluable advice. And perhaps best of all, a full edit of a few pages of your book as a sample, so that you can see what kinds of things should be changed, and the best way to make those changes.

See an example of a sample edit. (PDF)

Service includes:

• A review of your manuscript checking for:
  • Tone, perspective, complexity, sentence fragments, spelling, syntax, punctuation, flow and formatting
• A professional recommendation on whether a full edit is in order
• A 5-8 page sample edit of your manuscript

What to submit:

• Your completed book or manuscript

After purchasing the service, Lulu will send you instructions on how to submit your file.

Formatting $250.00 (Included in the Publishing Pack)

Though you know it's an important part of making your book look professional and appealing to read, you may not have the time (or the desire) to worry about formatting your words yourself. That's where Lulu's formatting service can help. Select one of five different templates for the layout, choose from a variety of fonts, determine where and how chapter headings are placed, and pick the style you like best for headers, footers, margins and page numbers.

Lulu will also carefully review and correct any formatting problems you may have missed, such as extra spaces between or within sentences, inconsistent paragraph indents and mixed fonts.

See an example of a formatted story. (PDF)

Service includes:

• 5 book interior layout templates to select from
• Correction of extra white space, paragraph indents, mixed fonts, incorrect use of dashes, headers and footers, numbering
• Placement of a maximum of ten images. If your book has more than ten images, we can obtain a price quote for an upgrade to custom page layout

What to submit:

• Your completed book or manuscript
• Up to ten interior images

After purchasing the service, Lulu will send you instructions on how to select your page design template and how to submit your file.