Lore & LilacFor freelance editors
Notes on the page, not lost in an email
Developmental editors, manuscript assessors and book coaches can read client drafts in the studio, comment on exact passages, and keep a style sheet that points back to the page — with the author's book treated as carefully as your own.
Two ways to work
Choose what suits the job
1 · Your author sends you a reading link
- No account or plan needed on your side — open the link on any device.
- Comment and react on exact passages; the author sees your notes in their editor's margin.
- The author turns your comments into tasks on their revision desk.
- Best for developmental notes, assessments and beta-style reads.
2 · You hold client manuscripts in your own studio
- With your client's agreement, import their manuscript (Word comments included, or RTF, EPUB, Markdown or a zipped Scrivener project); you'll see a fidelity report first.
- Keep story facts in the story bible — names, ages and timeline facts, each citing its passage — and a copyedit style sheet with the book's spelling and punctuation choices and a word list.
- Run the style sheet's flag-only checks, and download the sheet as a Word document or Markdown to send back with your notes.
- Use the timeline, reveals lens and basic checks to test the book's logic.
- Archive the book when the job ends, or delete it.
Client confidentiality
AI stays off unless your client agrees
AI features are off for every book until the account holder switches them on for that book. For client work, we suggest a simple rule: leave them off unless your client has agreed in writing. If they agree, the story scan and cited questions send only the excerpts each task needs to the named provider, never for training, with the estimate shown first.
The studio doesn't write editorial notes or prose. Every comment your client receives from you was written by you — which is worth saying out loud to authors who worry about AI.
For your clients
A page you can send your authors
Authors deserve to know where their manuscript goes. We wrote a short, plain note for them: who can see their book, what never happens to it, and how to ask you not to use the studio.
Before you rely on it
What it doesn't do for editors
- No tracked changes. Comments, yes; suggested edits inside the text, no. If your line edits depend on tracked changes, keep doing those in Word.
- No co-editing. One account per book; your client can't edit the copy in your studio, and you can't edit theirs.
- No client portal or invoicing. It's a writing and revision studio, not practice-management software.
Plans: Free holds 1 active book, Core 5 and Studio 20; archived books don't count. See pricing.
Try it on a manuscript of your own first
Import your draft from Word, Scrivener, RTF, EPUB or Markdown, or start on a blank page. The 14-day trial needs no card, and your book is exportable from the first word.