• Ensuring consistency of style, plot, punctuation, descriptions, and more
• Correcting garden-path sentences (sentences that confuse when they don’t end the way a reader expects)
• Correcting misspellings
• Ensuring proper grammar (appropriate to the manuscript—we never want to make writing overly stiff and formal)
• Flagging for review potential unintentional repetition, clunky wording, possible unintended narrative distance, etc.
• Eliminating head-hopping
• Basic fact checking (did Microsoft Windows exist in 1984? Does I-90 run through Iowa? Wasn’t the capitol named Panem in the first chapter?)

Deliverables: an editorial letter (a brief overview of the edit and how to use Word’s Track Changes feature), your manuscript edited in Microsoft Word using Track Changes, and a style sheet