We are passionate reviewers with a clear
understanding of what makes good fiction and how to provide
useful feedback. We read your work and appraise it objectively – unlike
family and friends.
High professional standards are at the heart
of our written critiques. Almost all our reviewers
have backgrounds in the
worlds of publishing, education or professional writing.
What we offer
• objective opinion, based only on your writing and not on anything else
about you;
• considered critiques, which you might want to quote in your
submission to a publisher or agent;
• up to 4 critiques, each by a different reviewer, for greater feedback;
• a checklist rating, which should help you in assessing and developing
your writing;
• affordable prices.
What we don't offer
• we have no formal links to publishers of fiction or literary agents and
so we can’t recommend work to them;
• we can’t guarantee your work will be published, no matter how much
we think it might deserve to be;
• an editing service included with the critiques – however, we do
provide basic copy editing together with expert proof-reading for spelling and
grammatical errors as a separate service. See Proofing
and Editing.
Critiques are
usually between one and two A4 pages, single-spaced. They
will look at elements such as characterisation, plot development,
style, credibility, structure and the writing itself. You
choose if you want one, two, three or four reviews.
Accompanying each review will be a checklist,
rating elements of your writing, usually on a scale of
1-5, where 1 = needs more work, and 5 = excellent. For
examples, please see Sample Critique.
We provide slightly different, tailored checklists for
writing aimed at the
children’s market, and for full novels.
Please remember every critique is subjective.
This reflects real life, where one reader might hugely
enjoy a book that
someone else dislikes – this applies to agents and
publishers too!
