We are passionate professionals with hands-on industry experience in editing, publishing, book coaching and marketing. Plus, we’re writers too. Work with us and better your book.
Our Services
Manuscript Assessment
A manuscript assessment includes: a six to ten-page feedback report identifying strengths, weaknesses, recurring issues, and areas for improvement, as well as a list of recommendations plus a thirty-minute video call. The customized assessment offers general feedback with thoughtful examples from the manuscript and is usually performed in advance of a developmental edit. It does not include line edits or a marked-up manuscript.
Developmental Edit
Choose a developmental edit when you’ve taken the manuscript as far as you can on your own. A developmental edit includes:
an editorial letter identifying areas for improvement and a marked-up manuscript with suggestions and queries. It includes detailed and comprehensive feedback on the manuscript’s major elements, for example, plot, structure, character development, POV, pacing and voice. It may identify recurring writing issues on the sentence level, but does not usually involve line edits.
Book coaching can be the right choice if you are starting a novel, trying to finish one or need consistent support through the revision process. Coaching includes: A one-hour consultation per week and review of up to 10,000 words per month. Working with a coach means different things for different writers, but generally coaching offers support in the following areas: craft instruction, publishing advice, quick edits, a sounding board, moral support and encouragement, and accountability.
Our Story
We get it. Like you, we’ve written manuscripts. We’ve queried, submitted and published. We understand the process. But we’ve also worked on the other side. With agents and publishers. As editors, manuscript reviewers, instructors, coaches, jurors, and judges. With a combined forty years’ experience in the writing business, we know what it takes to make your book better. If you're ready to take your manuscript to the next level, contact us.
