While a single typo might jog your readers’ attention for only a second, multiple errors can be distracting enough to make them put a book down. A quality proofread is your best chance at keeping your readers fully immersed in your work by eliminating distractions and making the text as polished as possible.

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Areas of focus in a proofread:

• Punctuation

• Capitalization

• Hyphenation

• Grammar

• Spelling

• Usage

• Pagination

• Chapter sequencing

• Extraneous spaces and line breaks

• Consistency in design of text and visual elements

• Consistency in style (e.g., italicization, quotation marks)

Please note that proofreading is the final step after editing—it is not a substitute for editing.

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