Welcome to The Oxford Editors
The Oxford Editors is the fastest growing international literary consultancy and agency, providing editorial services to writers, agents and publishers. We specialise in providing a wide range of services to the literary world, including assessing manuscripts for new and established authors, project management for publishers, and ghost-writing. Our new literary agency represents some stunning writing talent.
How are we different? All our editors are established either published writers, successful scriptwriters or senior editors who have worked for some of the best publishers in the world.
We understand writers because we are writers. All of our assessment editors are published authors, successful screenwriters. We also provide world-class ghost-writers, copy-editors and proof-readers. And on top of all that, we have exceptional contact with publishers and agents throughout the world.
We specialise in helping new and established authors; from sorting out their manuscripts to representing their interest through the maze that is the world of publishing. Our clients come from every corner of the globe and out contacts are also global. And yet, every client is important to us, from the young boy who wants a mentor to help him with his first literary steps to the most famous of authors.
Our services include manuscript assessment and re-writing, one-to-one mentoring, acting as agents for selected writers to project managing books for major publishers.
Let us read your work
Feedback and advice for writers by writers.
Every writer needs an editor. All writers have, at sometime, asked friends and family to read their work and tell them if it is any good. But nothing can replace the feedback and advice of a professional writer who can give you an honest assessment of your manuscript. At The Oxford Editors we provide editorial advice and help to writers of books, plays, films, journalism and academic papers.
Our manuscript assessment service helps writers by giving a professional report on its strengths and possible areas that need improvement. When you come to The Oxford Editors you will get access to published authors, playwrights and screenwriters who have years of experience and success as writers.
What is a manuscript assessment?
A manuscript assessment is a careful, detailed report on all aspects of your book, play, screenplay or article.
We provide professional and honest advice and feedback for writers by writers.
We will read your manuscript and provide a detailed report on its strengths and the areas that need improvement. All our editors are authors themselves and they will pass on years of writing and publishing experience to help you make the best of your work.
We will also use our contacts and influence to try and get the best manuscripts to agents, publishers and producers.
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Expert Editorial Advice
The Oxford Editors are dedicated to supporting all writers. We are here to help writers by providing expert editorial advice and a full range of other services. We handle all sorts of writing from books to film, theatre, journalism and academic papers.
Selling your work
We know the markets for our work and we keep in touch with publishers and producers to make sure we are on top of the latest trends. Our editors will draw on years of experience to help you make the very best of your chances.
At The Oxford Editors you will be working with published authors who are also professional editors and who understand your needs, fears and expectations. All our editors are dedicated to helping other writers, both new and experienced. Our editors will support you at every stage of the writing process. Every writer needs someone to give them honest feedback on their work and that’s what we’re here to do.
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Our Mission
The Oxford Editors provide help by writers for writers. We offer first class professional services to all writers, from beginners to bestselling authors. We all need a second pair of eyes to look at our work and to provide constructive ideas on areas where it might be improved. We’ll tell you what’s good and what we feel needs changing.
Our emphasis is on providing detailed, market-aware assessment of your manuscript, tailored to meet your needs. But we also keep a firm eye on the needs of the market and the shifting trends in publishing. Our mission is to encourage and help you improve your work by producing a constructive report on its strengths and where it might be improved.
Our Promise
We will provide a detailed, honest and supportive assessment of your work, always celebrating its strengths and suggesting areas where there is room for improvement.
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Our Editorial Team
The Oxford Editors provide you with the skill and expertise of professional editors who are published authors, BBC and broadcast media veterans, business writers and leading journalists.
What our clients say
Please thank my editor very much for her comments: they will be extremely useful, especially the guidance re outline and planning, which I have so far been struggling with. It has been very useful to get a professional opinion in such an easy to read format and it has encouraged me not to go back to the law just yet!
I found the Oxford Editors efficient, helpful and friendly. I needed my 64,000 word manuscript assessed fairly quickly and received a helpful written reply and annotated manuscript three days after emailing it. The suggestions were spot on and very supportive; having incorporated them into my book my editor and publisher here in Australia were delighted with the changes. I have been singing the praises of the Oxford Editors ever since and am looking forward to working with them again.
I submitted the first 55k words of my novel for assessment, and I got back a 7k document – including excerpts for commentary – with detailed analysis on each chapter, character development, dialogue, process, mediums through which the story develops and such. Chehre opens with a synopsis of her analysis, which I thought was great, and in which she very quickly produced some real insight, both kind and critical, but always constructive.
Protecting your ideas
We know that ideas are precious things and no one wants to risk giving away the plot of the next great novel. All our editors guarantee confidentiality and will never use your ideas or discuss them with anyone outside The Oxford Editors. They will sign a pledge that ensures the protection of your copyright and prevents the use by others of any of your material or your ideas.
We Know The Right People
With our extensive contact list of professionals, we are able to choose exactly the right editor for each author. Our first-class team is dedicated to encouraging and helping writers.
We also use renowned journalists, academics and business writers, many of whom teach at Oxford University.
The Oxford Editors have close links with many top agents and publishers, both in London and worldwide. The Oxford Editors cannot guarantee to get your book into print, but the moment we see a market for it we will place it for you.
Why Use Us?
As successful, published authors we have all turned to family, friends and other writers to read and to help us with our first, second and even tenth drafts. There was a time, long past, when agents and publishers could take the time to ‘build’ a writer, supporting them from first draft to eventual publication. In today’s competitive market you only get one chance: The Oxford Editors are here to support and guide you to grasp that chance.
Write to us at:
The Oxford Editors
Suite 103,
266 Banbury Road,
Oxford OX2 7DL
Email us
Use our Contact Us page or email info@theoxfordeditors.co.uk
Telephone us
Telephone us on 01865 358737 for more information.
How to pay
We hope we have made our Fees page easy to use and that it is simple to calculate the fee you need to pay. When you are ready, just go to our online payment page and follow the links to Paypal. You can pay using your credit card. You do not need a Paypal account. If you prefer to pay by cheque, please make it out to The Oxford Editors Limited and post to us along with your manuscript.
If you are in doubt please contact us through our Contacts Us page or telephone us on 01865 358737.
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