Editorial Assessment Service
An Editorial Assessment is a detailed report on your entire manuscript and is most helpful to an author in the early stages of drafting, who wants to know if there are any fundamental issues in their manuscript that need work. This is especially helpful if the author wants to approach literary agents/traditional publishers or if they are trying to establish if their manuscript is worth publishing.
Why Is This Service Useful?
Before approaching literary agents or traditional publishers, you want to ensure that your manuscript is the best that it can be. Finishing off a manuscript only to be told that there are fundamental plot holes running through it can be highly frustrating and incredibly time wasting, to have to go back and effectively rewrite substantial portions of the book. Having an Editorial Assessment after the early stages of drafting can save a lot of wasted time and effort and leads to a much higher quality book overall.
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What Does This Service Include?
A Writing Advisor will read your manuscript, making notes as they read, and then create an in-depth report on its content, bearing in mind your genre and intended market. This will include an analysis of the book’s strengths and weaknesses and a detailed breakdown of elements such as plot, themes, character arcs and world-building. The Writing Advisor will highlight issues with the book and opportunities for improvement, and they will provide advice on how to approach the next draft of your book.
An Editorial Assessment is often helpful to an author in the early stages of drafting who is planning on carrying out an extensive edit or rewrite of their novel, or who wants to know if there are any fundamental issues in their manuscript that need work.
Please Note: The Editorial Assessment Service works best for novels. It can work for non-fiction, but it's not intended for it. It is also not suitable for picture books or any manuscripts under 10,000 words, as they're not long enough to really benefit from the service. Our Developmental Editing Service is much better for these types of manuscript.
An Editorial Assessment is often helpful to an author in the early stages of drafting who is planning on carrying out an extensive edit or rewrite of their novel, or who wants to know if there are any fundamental issues in their manuscript that need work.
Please Note: The Editorial Assessment Service works best for novels. It can work for non-fiction, but it's not intended for it. It is also not suitable for picture books or any manuscripts under 10,000 words, as they're not long enough to really benefit from the service. Our Developmental Editing Service is much better for these types of manuscript.
What It Costs
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Example price = £187.09 (based on a 30,000w manuscript).
The price of this service depends on word count. For an accurate quote for this service, please Contact Us and a Publishing Advisor will be happy to help. |
"I found the Editorial Assessment Service really useful"
- Mike Smith "I've had my editorial feedback from Ellie now and really, really pleased with it - loads of helpful advice for my next draft and things I hadn't really considered at all." - Victoria Hattersley |
Get In Touch
Learn more in our free publishing guide, which gives you a more detailed look at the process, or by speaking to one of our Publishing Advisors, who would be happy to walk you through all the details you need to begin the process.
“When I found Rowanvale, they seemed like the perfect publishing house for me and my books, almost like it was too good to be true! But they really are everything they say they are.” – D. Bishop |
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