Our passion lies solidly within the indie author community. There are so many unconventional stories living inside these authors that deserve to be told, and they deserve to be professionally polished without the need to auction off your first-born child to afford the level of care an editor should provide.
We accept work produced by humans from authors of all walks of life across every genre, but have a soft spot for all things romance (contemporary, dark, historical, romcom—we love it all!) but have a soft spot for LGBTQIA+ representation as we here at Encompass are all members of the community.
Send your girls, gays, and theys to the front of the line, please! We stan some queer romance around here!
*We are humans. We have feelings and a deep understanding of prose and the power of using language to elicit emotion.
Robots do not.
It is in our contract to immediately cancel a job if we confirm or strongly suspect AI has been used.
No, this does not mean we will attack you or your em dash—we'll probably add a few.
No, we do not look for AI with AI.
Just don't submit something you didn't pour your heart and soul into.
How embarrassing we even have to say this.
This is a speed read. We're looking for basic typos here. You're not going to get running commentary and we're not going to worry overly much about your sentence structure or character development.
If it is glaringly obvious you need more than just a proof, we'll be sure to let you know.
We'll still do the proof should you choose to stick with just that, but we can't abide sending an unpolished work out into the world without doing our due diligence.
That would be doing all of us a disservice.
One package. One price.
Because I can't stop myself from doing all of these things when I edit.
You'll get two full rounds of edits with comments on character development, plot, pacing, worldbuilding, and sometimes random thoughts that something you wrote made me think or feel.
We'll also catch all that pesky grammar stuff.
Accessibility issues keeping you from telling your story? Arthritis got you down? Do you just like the sound of your own voice?
We've got you covered.
We'll transcribe, word for word, your novel for you. You just record it one chapter or scene at a time, send it over to us, and you'll end up with a manuscript.
No, we won't transcribe your YouTube videos or meeting minutes or court recordings.
We do books here.
Our turnaround times for novels vary based on how clean the writing is when it gets to us, how long the manuscript is, and how on top of accepting and rejecting edits the client is. 90% of our edits are finished, both rounds, within a week.
We advise you to be prepared for two weeks just in case.
Life happens.
David Michael has been a lifelong reader and word nerd, and published his first of eleven books in 2013. After launching and operating Live Literately, a non-profit organization that delivered thousands of books to kids over its six years in operation, he began editing for friends. After a heaping of encouragement and outright begging, he finally launched Encompass Press in 2021 and began editing professionally.
Since then, he has edited more than 120 published novels across more genres than he can be bothered to keep track of. His love for reading and quality storytelling shines through in the care and commitment he delivers with every edit and comment he leaves, always ensuring he preserves the author's voice and artistic style first and foremost.
Or email us at encompasspress@gmail.com