You keep the final say on your book

Before a book is prepared for print, the Studio reads the whole manuscript from start to finish, the way a developmental editor would. It looks for things a reader would feel: the same idea explained twice, a story told in two places, a chapter that does not move the reader forward.

What you see

Any note serious enough to hold up printing is shown to you in plain English in the Before your book goes to print panel, inside the Manuscript ready stage of the Book-in-Hand Accelerator.

You then have two choices for each read-through:

1. Rework the parts. Use Fix this part on the sections named. Your own sources stay the boundary — nothing new is invented.
2. Keep the book as it is. Press Keep the book as it is. This records that you have read the notes and decided, as the author, that the book stands.

Sometimes the machine is wrong. A refrain repeated every day may be the whole point of a devotional. A teaching point you deliberately restate may be how your readers learn. That judgement is yours.

What your decision means

• Nothing is rewritten and nothing is marked as passed. Your decision is recorded as your decision, with the date and your name against it.
• It is stamped to the exact text that was read. If you change so much as a sentence afterwards, the decision no longer applies and the read-through runs again on the new text.
• Fidelity notes on individual parts work the same way: Keep as my own words records that a point is true and yours, even if it is not in the material you uploaded.

What is never waived

Your decision covers editorial judgement only. It does not touch the protections that keep your book safe to print: Scripture accuracy, real-person authorship for a foreword or acknowledgements, the required pages of a finished book, your approved proof, and your final sign-off before any copies are printed.