Manuscript assessment
the big picture
have a draft of a novel and need help moving forward?
How an assessment can help you:
- Helps you identify where to start in revising your novel, so you can improve your story and structure in redrafts.
- Gives you guidance on the book’s strengths and weaknesses – so you know what you’re doing well, and which areas need work.
- Identifies where your book fits in with your target audience, based on your publishing goals – and if it doesn’t, what you can do to change that.
- Provides you with suggestions, strategies, and critical feedback that you may not have considered after becoming so close to your work.
what you get
Service includes…
A comprehensive report running around ten to fifteen pages. This will cover areas such as plot/structure, conflict, world-building, characters, the target market, writing craft, etc.
I’ll include examples and additional resources, and one follow-up consultation is included with the service.
Inspiring
Your manuscript assessment was exactly what I was hoping for. You confirmed some thoughts I had, raised plenty of new ones and helped me see where things were working where otherwise I had doubts. My head was nodding throughout and I found your suggestions/explanations inspiring. I can’t wait to get to work. Thank you so much.
Charlie kelly
Romance author
Helped me focus
Thank you so much for your feedback – it’s really helped me cut away all the fat from the story and streamline it, and to really focus on the story that I want to tell and what I want readers to get out of it. I’d struggled to explain my book to others and I see now that this was because I was throwing too many plotlines and characters at the wall and seeing what would stick. I’ve re-written around 50,000 words from scratch and it already feels so much better and is more snappy than the earlier draft. I feel much more immersed as I feel I know the characters and the world better than before.
aaron s. jones
Fantasy author
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Creative, passionate, professional
Rachel’s detailed feedback was instrumental in making my novel what it is today. Her insights into character development, structure and plotting have massively helped me create a much pacier and more layered book. Not only did Rachel look at overall issues and strengths of the novel, she also gave detailed chapter by chapter feedback. Such attention to detail is something I’ve rarely come across in an editor. You’ll find Rachel creative, passionate and above all professional and kind. I couldn’t recommend her more highly.
Molly aitken
Author of The Island Child
I feel more confident
I can’t thank you enough for your opinions on how to improve my story. I feel much more confident in what I’ve written and what I’ve changed about the story thanks to you.
Pixie j.j.
Fantasy author and artist
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She is simply amazing
The manuscript assessment I received from Rachel was extraordinarily helpful. Some of the feedback confirmed suspicions I had, which as a new writer helped me gain confidence in my own inner critic. But much more of the assessment addressed aspects I had not considered or those I thought I had worked out well. Rachel provided explanations as well as specific examples from my manuscript on each area of strength and weakness. That made the feedback much more impactful, as I could see the passages/lines and immediately understood her points. She even provided some excellent resources to help me improve on some of these areas.
I was blown away by Rachel’s thoughtful and thorough work and there is no doubt that my novel will be incalculably stronger because of Rachel’s feedback. She is simply amazing. If you are a writer in search of professional editing services, you found them. End of search.
I was blown away by Rachel’s thoughtful and thorough work and there is no doubt that my novel will be incalculably stronger because of Rachel’s feedback. She is simply amazing. If you are a writer in search of professional editing services, you found them. End of search.
wes cook
Author of The Ruiner