Manuscript Assessment
It all begins with an idea.
Have you finished a first draft? Wondering if your final manuscript is ready for an agent? Are you tinkering with a work-in-progress? Let a professional editor, writer and reader help with a guided manuscript assessment. I’m here to help.
Short Extract.
Are you still at the beginning but want to see if your manuscript is on the right track? Have your first 10,000 words assessed for what’s working and what can be improved. Read more about this report.
Long Extract.
Maybe you want something a bit more for that work-in-progress. Let’s go! Besides looking at what’s working and what can be improved, I’ll take a deeper objective examination at plot, narrative, character, pace and more. Read more about this report.
Full Manuscript.
Not sure if it’s ready for an agent or another re-draft? Let’s have a deep look at the whole structure. Is the manuscript working from beginning to end? Time to take a definitive look at plot, narrative, character, pace and everything in between. Read more about this report.
Sometimes you just want a quick and to the point editorial surgery. I’ll read and discuss up to 2,500 words of your work-in-progress. Receive bespoke feedback in a one hour video session. Read more about this service.
Is this right for me?
Write it.
It can be very personal and difficult to let another person read your work. Your book will be treated with respect, care and confidentiality. Manuscripts that I work with at this time are any literary and commercial fiction. Adult or young adult (YA). Any genre. I am happy to work with writers working anywhere in the world writing in English.
Unfortunately, at this time, I cannot assess non-fiction or poetry.
Read it.
I am an experienced writer, editor and reader with over a decade’s worth of experience in the publishing industry. I also am the publisher and editorial director of a publishing company in South London. I've been the editor for literary and culture magazines and worked for a well-known publisher. My original fiction and poetry have been published in magazines and anthologies, and my criticism is widely published in Europe, Asia and North America. I have a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Columbia University.
I’m a wide and voracious reader and editor.
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Are you a low income writer? I might be able to help! Please get in contact to enquire how we can work together on a manuscript assessment for your book.