About This Role
Copy editing involves meticulously reviewing content to ensure it is free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors, while also enhancing clarity and readability. This role suits someone with a keen eye for detail and a passion for upholding high editorial standards.
Responsibilities
- Read content and correct for errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar
- Review edited work and ensure all corrections/comments marked by the author or editor are incorporated
- Rewrite when needed to make it easier for readers to understand a manuscript
- Suggest titles and subtitles based on an author's request
- Communicate with authors regarding editing queries via comments in manuscripts, notes to authors, calls or emails, if needed
- Work independently and report back to the editor on specific tasks as assigned
- Ensure all manuscripts meet or exceed editorial quality standards
- Language edit and/or quality check assigned books as per quality standards with minimum intervention from the reporting editor
- Troubleshoot and display the ability to deal with fast track/difficult manuscripts
Requirements
- 1-2 years of editing experience
- Excellent grammar and spelling skills
- Strong writing/editing/proofreading skills
- Hands on experience with MS Office and Adobe and other publishing tools like PerfectIT or Grammarly
- An eye for detail and accuracy in work, along with critical thinking
- Imagination and good visual sense
- Ability to be diplomatic with feedback to first-time authors
- Ability to give clear, accurate instructions to authors
- Understanding of the target audience
- Ability to make decisions independently
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Awareness of best practices in editing and industry trends in self-publishing
