Your manuscript deserves an editor who reads it twice before they quote you a price.
Morgan Intake Editorial works chapter by chapter with fiction and narrative nonfiction authors who want a sharper draft, not just a proofread one.
She walked quickly crossed the platform at a run toward the departing train, her ticket ^already crumpled in her fist.
The city, in that moment, was very beautiful and she noticed itwent unnoticed behind her.
Two editors, one manuscript at a timenot a queue of freelancers
Morgan Intake Editorial is run by two people. Every manuscript that comes through intake is read by both of us before we say yes.
Morgan Clinton
Works on structure first: what a chapter is doing versus what it's meant to be doing. Reads for pacing, point of view, and the places a story quietly stalls.
Claire Helen
Works at the sentence level: rhythm, repetition, and the small habits a writer can't see in their own prose after the tenth draft.
We don't edit to make your prose sound like ours. We edit so a reader can't tell an editor was ever there.
Developmental and line editingdone by the two people you'll actually talk to
Most editorial services route your manuscript to whichever freelancer is free that week. Morgan Intake doesn't work that way — every manuscript is edited and discussed directly by Morgan and Claire, chapter by chapter.
A pass through Morgan Intake, shown rather than described
An unedited paragraph next to the same paragraph after a line-editing pass. No summary, no adjectives about our process — just the work.
He walked into the room very slowly and looked around, taking in the strange and unfamiliar surroundings that he had never seen before, and he felt a deep sense of unease that he couldn't quite explain.
He stepped into the room and stopped. Nothing here was his.
From intake to a manuscript you can send outfour stages, no blind packages
Every project starts with a sample edit of your own pages, so you see the work before you commit to it.
You tell us about the manuscript
Genre, word count, stage of the draft, and what you think it needs. Ten minutes, no call required.
1–2 days for a responseWe edit five of your own pages
A real sample edit from your manuscript, not a template. You see exactly how we'd work on the rest of it.
3–5 business daysChapter-by-chapter passes
Developmental, line, or copyedit — scoped to what the diagnostic actually showed, delivered in tracked changes as we go.
Timeline set per manuscriptA window to talk it through
Every pass includes a revision window and a call to walk through the harder calls, not just a file drop.
Included in every passTell us about the manuscriptnot a quote request
This isn't a quote request. It's how we decide whether we're the right editors for your book, and how we scope the diagnostic pass.