Writing & Editing

We help leaders write with liberty, clarity, and conviction about the ideas that matter most.

Four Degrees of Editing

From surgical precision to comprehensive revision, our services are customizable to your needs. Our team-reinforced process ensures every word earns its place. Developmental editing strengthens structure. Line editing simplifies and clarifies. Copyediting confirms mechanical accuracy. Proofreading perfects the whole.

To optimize our teamwork, we assign a Client Success Manager to liaise between you and our editors, exchange drafts and updates, and keep your priorities top of mind.

For complex projects, we can supply end-to-end project management, writing coaching, and executive consulting.

Enjoy greater volume at the best price.

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1st Degree

Enhanced Copy-Editing

You know you're good. In fact, you’re pro enough to know that you'd be crazy not to get a fresh pair of eyes to prove you right. Choose the 1ST DEGREE:

  • Mechanics check: eliminates confusing or embarrassing punctuation, misspellings, and grammatical errors

  • Sense test: catches awkward phrasing that worked fine at the office but may confuse readers unfamiliar with your subject

  • Format standardization: ensures uniformity of font sizes, styles, and variants

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

—William Faulkner

2nd Degree

Enhanced Line-Editing

No doubt, you have writing chops — enough to know that if it isn’t clear, it doesn’t count. Maximize your “word economy” to make every word tell and idea flow.

  • Includes the 1ST DEGREE

  • Simplifies wordiness

  • Reduces redundancy

  • Fortifies logical transitions

  • Reorganizes where necessary

“To be clear is to be kind.”

—American proverb

“It is impossible to say just what I mean!”

—T. S. Eliot

3rd Degree

Enhanced Revision and Restructuring

It made sense in your head. Then words and ideas collided. It wasn’t pretty. You haven’t failed; you just need a fresh start.

  • Includes the 1ST & 2ND DEGREES

  • Substantially rewrites your document, drawing from existing attempts 

  • Explores new avenues for expression and organization

  • Conference(s) to generate feedback during production

“How can I know what I think unless I write?”

—C. S. Lewis

4th Degree

Original Writing or Ghostwriting by Our Team

You could write it, but should you? Let our writers and subject matter experts lean into their unique abilities so you can lean into yours.

  • Includes the 1ST, 2ND & 3RD DEGREES

  • Crafts, drafts, revises, and refines your message through the writing process

  • Client interviewed to help editor acquire a deep sense of your organization’s mission and vision

  • Conference(s) to generate feedback during production

Add-On Services include:

Protect your investment. Catch and kill errors and inconsistencies that may have survived or been introduced in prior design or review stages.

Bulletproofing

“Cleanliness is next to godliness.”

—Benjamin Franklin

Promotion

Your audience is waiting to hear from you. They just don’t realize it. Make the media tell them.

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Document Design

You’ve made it clear; now make it pop. You didn’t come this far just to drop a glorified Word doc on your reader. 

Choose for white papers, curricula, manuscript interior layout, and cover design.

Check out our Publications

  • “My book on biblical eldership was improved significantly by Good Comma’s team of editors. They cared for each word of my manuscript as though it were their own, demonstrated a high view of Scripture, and worked diligently for God’s glory. I recommend using Good Comma Editing.”

    — Alexander Strauch, author, Biblical Eldership (updated and completely revised, 2024)

  • “Good Comma enabled me to get my message out from my church and into the world. Working with their editors was easy. They quickly grasped the flow of my argument, and their input made it not only much stronger but also much more persuasive. The most frequent feedback I’ve gotten from my book has been that people are surprised at how clear it was. Well, that is owing directly to Michael and the team at Good Comma.”

    — Jesse Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor and Author

    City of Man, Kingdom of God: Why Christians Respect, Obey, and Resist Government (2022)

  • “When it was time to perform a final edit on my book Sharing the Burden: The Samaritan Ministries Story, I turned naturally to Good Comma Editing. At Samaritan, we knew of GCE’s devotion to detail and high standards and wanted that for the book. GCE delivered the goods promptly. I would turn to no other service for my editing needs.”

    — Michael Miller, editor, Samaritan Ministries International, and author of Sharing the Burden: The Samaritan Ministries Story (2020)

  • “Good Comma Editing has been a wonderful, highly skilled, and professional partner in our efforts, providing our team with much-needed research and editorial services. The Heartland Institute highly recommends GCE and its staff of editors and researchers, to whom we have previously entrusted important public policy projects that our donors and supporters care deeply about. When we need editorial help, we turn to Good Comma Editing first, and we wouldn’t think twice about recommending the GCE team to anyone in need of professional editorial services in the future.”

    — Justin Haskins, Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute and author of several books, including Stopping Socialism: The Moral Case Against Marx’s Radical Dream (2019).

  • “As a first-time author, one of the greatest concerns is the quality of the content. A dream poorly executed will quickly derail an author's expectations, however low or high these expectations may be. When GCE stepped into the conversation, this grave concern turned into growing confidence. GCE’s best-in-class team lays to rest any concern surrounding grammar, vocabulary, and logic through their thorough editing process. Bellwether Blues has been an outstanding success largely because the contents of the book allow the reader to engage the big ideas without the noise of poor logic or faulty grammar. GCE deserves tremendous credit for making that possible.”

    — Jonathan Jakubowski, Author

    Bellwether Blues: A Conservative Awakening in the Millennial Soul (2020) and board chairman of the Forge Leadership Network