Manuscript Assessments Ready to take your manuscript to the next level? Our expert manuscript assessments provide invaluable feedback to help you refine your writing and increase your chances of publication. Our manuscript assessment service provides unparalleled reliability and practical support to unpublished writers from Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK and the USA. Our team of editors are committed to helping you unlock the full potential of your book. Our trusted, professional manuscript appraisers will give you the insight you need to identify areas where further development is required and move your manuscript one step closer to publication. Why Choose Our Service? Benefits of our industry-recognised manuscript assessment service designed to propel authors like you towards literary greatness: ✅ Unparalleled Evaluation: Our experienced editors meticulously analyse every aspect of your manuscript, from plot to pacing, dialogue to style, leaving no stone unturned. ✅ Constructive Feedback: Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your work with insightful feedback that guides you towards mastery. ✅ Masterful Storytelling: Ensure your narrative arc and plot structure are flawlessly executed, captivating readers from start to finish. ✅ Brilliant Characterisation: Dive deep into your characters’ development and motivations, unlocking the power to create truly compelling individuals. ✅ Literary Polish: From grammar to clarity, we’ll refine your writing style, vocabulary, and consistency, transforming your manuscript into a true masterpiece. ✅ Captivating Themes: With expert analysis of thematic consistency, symbolism, and underlying ideas, we’ll help you craft a cohesive and thought-provoking work. ✅ Fresh Perspective: Benefit from the objective viewpoint of an experienced editor, offering insights that will take your manuscript to the next level. ✅ Tailored Editing: Our personalized suggestions, tailored to your voice and style, will enhance your manuscript’s overall quality, making it irresistible to readers and publishers alike. ✅ A Door Opener: Gain a competitive edge in the publishing world, increasing your chances of capturing the attention of literary agents and publishers. ✅ Book Deal Assurance: Stand out from the crowd by proving your commitment to excellence, ensuring your manuscript shines brightly in the eyes of publishers. ✅ Elevate Your Craft: Grow as a writer with guidance from our professional editor, equipping you with skills to conquer current and future writing projects. ✅ Confident Publishing: Be confident in your manuscript’s readiness for publication, knowing it has been thoroughly assessed by industry experts. Take Your Manuscript to the Next Level with a Professional Assessment You’ve poured your heart and soul into your book. The culmination of late nights and writer’s block now lies neatly bound before you. But is your manuscript truly ready for its moment in the spotlight? Before you query agents or publishers, be sure your masterpiece puts its best foot forward with an objective manuscript assessment. Our professional manuscript assessment service analyses all aspects of your book, providing constructive feedback to refine your work. Our editors thoroughly evaluate your manuscript’s plot, pacing, characters, themes, writing style, and more. We identify strengths to highlight and weaknesses to improve. Our sole focus is empowering you to transform your manuscript into a captivating, polished book that demands attention. We Dig Deep, You Soar High Our editors dive deep into the heart of your story. We assess the narrative arc and structure, ensuring compelling rising action and seamless plot transitions. Character development and believable dialogue are put under the microscope. The effectiveness of themes and symbolism in enhancing your story’s resonance receives close scrutiny. At every turn, we offer tailored suggestions to elevate your writing. We strive to polish your diamonds in the rough so your manuscript’s inner brilliance shines through. Our assessment includes a comprehensive editorial report summarising key feedback. You’ll gain invaluable insights to finesse your work line-by-line and chapter-by-chapter. Any flaws that could cause rejection letters will be identified and resolved. The Writerful Difference At Writerful Books, we focus solely on serving authors and their stories. Our professional editors have assessed thousands of manuscripts spanning every genre. We take your book as seriously as if they were our own. Our passion lies in helping you master the art and craft of writing. With over a twelve years of experience working with traditional publishers such as HarperCollins, we understand what agents and acquisition editors look for. A manuscript assessment prepares your work for success in today’s competitive publishing landscape. When you’re ready to transform your book into its best possible version, trust the professionals at Writerful Books. Submit your manuscript below to take that pivotal first step on the path to publication! What our authors are saying… - Alex M. Thank you very much! I hope it wasn't too raw and disconnected at this stage; there is perhaps too much ranting in there. Is it possible to do another round of beta reading with your company, after I review/edit? - Alex M.Read Moreread less - Anni T. Thank you so much for the quick turnaround on your beta read! Your report was very insightful and will help a lot in understanding a reader's perspective. I am so glad the story came together for you - that alone is extremely helpful. Yes, the subject matter is dark, which is always difficult when trying to write a story that is entertaining! I have lines that I won't cross, esp. when it comes to writing about children. I think writing for shock value is a race to the bottom. I'll go back and work on the dialogue that is stilted/unrealistic - yes, it would be awful for the narrator to have to read stilted dialogue! Also, I have to thank you for ploughing through the story despite it being so messy! My editor is finding 100s of errors and many inconsistencies. I've been under pressure to make a deadline for my audio publisher and I've had issues caused by the border closure in Victoria (we were meant to be moving there). I agree with the border closure, but it's been a difficult time - as have these past months been for many, many people. - Anni T.Read Moreread less - Peter B. I received your beta report and I first want to thank you for the kind comments you made about this story. Your suggestions and ideas were right on, and I’ve already made most of the corrections. I was stunned by the number of typos, etc. in the manuscript. I thought it was pretty clean. Thanks for pointing them out. I know that proofreading my own work will never be perfect, and to compound things, I’ve been proofing four different novels of mine all at the same time. I can see now that I need to take a different approach with it comes to proofing, and that means that I should probably follow your suggestion to hire a proofreader. That will free me to continue writing the new stories that keep swirling around in my head. 🙂 - Peter B.Read Moreread less - Jason U. Please thank the sensitivity reader for me. The comments are very helpful! - Jason U.Read Moreread less - Heather P. Thanks so much for this report, having had a quick read over I’m extremely happy with it. Everything that’s been said is fair, great food for thought and really helpful. I feel much more confident now about self-publishing, so kudos to the reader for not only doing this in such timely fashion but also with such style and understanding. - Heather P.Read Moreread less - Stephenos M. I wanted to take a moment to thank you so much again for the meaningful and insightful feedback you left on the manuscript assessment. I really appreciate your work and the ways your feedback has led to the improvement of my writing. Sincerely, Stephenos. - Stephenos M.Read Moreread less - Liljana F. Writerful Books’ comprehensive manuscript appraisal was exactly what I needed to take my work to the next level. Declan’s thoughtful comments and practical advice helped me pinpoint issues with my characters, structure and style that I wouldn’t have picked up myself. I’m very happy with the constructive criticism I received, and now feel more optimistic about the future of my book. Thanks again! - Liljana F.Read Moreread less - Lauren B. Thank you very much for your critique, I appreciate it. This is exactly what I've been looking for! All the best, Lauren. - Lauren B.Read Moreread less - Rob B. Just got to work and read the report with some trepidation. I'm happy to say that I'm quite excited. I've noted your points which I've found encouraging and enlightening so I think I'm going to be making some changes including extra work at the end. There is a sequel that expands a lot more on what happened and how Sarah's life changes and what drives Rachel. In the new year I'll send it to you for a read. In the mean time many thanks and have a great Christmas. Kind regards, Rob. - Rob B.Read Moreread less - Latifa J. Thank you for the manuscript assessment. I really appreciate how quickly you've gotten back to me. I'll start working on it as soon as possible, (rewriting it, taking everything you've mentioned into consideration). Thanks again! Regards, Latifa - Latifa J.Read Moreread less - David J. Thanks for that, your reviewer made some pretty encouraging comments and I can see the sense in the bits they criticised. I've made notes of a few things I'm going to modify or even remove. I hope you are also well. Kind regards, David. - David J.Read Moreread less - Allison D. Thanks very much, Declan—impressively speedy! I’ve passed your report on to the editor. Allison Draper - HarperCollins - Allison D.Read Moreread less Thanks for the good advice. I’ll keep working on it. Read Moreread less - Nikhil S. Thank you for your advice on the manuscript. You are right that this is an earlier draft and it needs some more revising, but I think I have some ideas based on your comments. Take care, Nikhil. - Nikhil S.Read Moreread less - Jenni J. You are currently my new favourite person after saying such positive things about my writing. I was quite taken aback with your appreciation of ‘Boundary Lines’. I’m really pleased you enjoyed reading it and were able to connect with it on a personal level. Thank you for your comments and editing. I look forward to playing around with the passages you highlighted. All of your comments are valued by me. Your honest and personal response really touched me and perfectly explains why you did not make an initial comment on the assessment regarding this passage of writing. Thank you for clarifying this. Although unsettling, my heart desires to create hope for the reader – a thought you did express in the initial manuscript assessment - so thank you! - Jenni J.Read Moreread less - Claire C. Thanks so much for you assessment. I have to confess, you were far more positive about my writing than I was expecting! I have read through the assessment a couple of times and I am about to work my way through the Word version. I was not surprised by your notes on the opening. It has been haunting me through every edit. Who knew the first line would be the most challenging. Thank you for your thoughts, I will see what I can do to make it more compelling/inviting. It was also good for you to pick out the section I did on the vows. If you can believe it, it was a lot worse! I went on a crazy tangent, even played around with an illustration. I felt like a blog was inserted into the chapter, but I kept it in because I was trying to show in the reality of vows an entertaining way. I shall remove it happily and explore other ways of making my point. For now, I have lots to do and I am looking forward to diving back into the manuscript with some direction and perspective from you. Thanks again. It was really wonderful to read your encouraging words. This was very much a personal challenge for me - to write a story that had been dancing around in my mind for a few years. Knowing it wasn’t a total turd spurs me on to have a go at a second one. Cheers Claire - Claire C.Read Moreread less load more Further Reading: What is a Manuscript Assessment? Find Your Voice as a Writer Manuscript Assessment Fees: The fees are calculated per 1000 words. There is a minimum word count of 50,000 words. AUD $16.25 per 1000 wordsCAD $14.65 per 1000 wordsGBP £8.75 per 1000 wordsEUR €9.95 per 1000 wordsUSD $10.85 per 1000 words *Manuscript assessments don’t include proofreading or copy editing. We offer substantial discounts to authors requesting a manuscript assessment who need to hire an editor for further editing or proofreading. We will provide a report to you by email approximately 2-3 weeks after the submission of your manuscript and will confirm a deadline with you once the manuscript is received. As a guideline, our reports are generally 3,000 to 5,000 words depending on the type of manuscript you are submitting. Services can be negotiated in advance and tailored to suit your needs. Note: We also have an express evaluation and expert evaluation service which is a more economical option for writers who want a quicker turnaround time while still receiving expert advice from a professional book editor. An express or expert evaluation is recommended for writers who don’t want to commit to a full manuscript assessment. Manuscript Evaluation Service Book an Assessment Below! Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Service Required *Beta ReadingCopyeditingDevelopmental EditingLine EditingManuscript AssessmentManuscript EvaluationSensitivity ReadingOther ServiceCountry / Currency *Australia (AUD)Canada (CAD)Ireland (EUR)United Kingdom (GBP)United States (USD)OtherWord Count *Brief Synopsis *Any Questions? *For example: specific areas to request the book editor focus on.Submit Your Manuscript Click or drag a file to this area to upload. 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