Manuscript Critique

My manuscript critique services involve looking at your story from the reader’s perspective. While there is some basic grammar, spelling, and punctuation checking, the main focus revolves around character development, believability, pacing, and plot holes. I look at what you excelled at, what could be improved, and what would make readers quirk their eyebrows, and say, “I don’t think John would really do that,” or “Even if they were mates and had some sort of preternatural bond pulling them together, a guy who has been very homophobic throughout the story wouldn’t be so quick to accept that he is now mated to a man, even one as effeminate as Todrick.”

Gold Manuscript Critique

comprehensive manuscript critique

The more comprehensive gold manuscript critique is an excellent option if you want what I call “story mechanics diagnostics”. Basically, it’s an in-depth look at how the developmental elements of your story work together at a chapter level.

At the end of the comprehensive manuscript critique, you’ll receive an editorial letter (i.e. the global comments as in the silver critique), and a separate Revision Notes document which has an analysis of what works and what could be improved in each chapter of your book, and how those pinpointed elements contribute to the overall reader experience.

Note: Authors I’ve worked with in the past like to keep a copy of the Revision Notes next to them as they work as a “revision cheat sheet”.