Choose from a range of service options and receive detailed feedback from an experienced beta-reader, along with practical information on issues such as grammar, word-choice, and any sneaky typos that spell-checking software might have missed.
Editing
A comprehensive review includes a full line edit of your submission, covering everything from grammar and word-choice to characterisation and plot.
Suggested edits, general comments, and noteworthy questions will be inserted as they arise, as well as overall comments supplied at the end.
Along with these edits and comments, you are guaranteed a response to these questions:
- What were your thoughts on the opening?
- What were your thoughts on the ending?
- How do you feel about the setting?/Are the descriptions easy to visualise?
- Were there any sections that were confusing or frustrating to read?
You may send a list of up to thirty additional questions of your own choosing.
Responses may vary in length, but all will be carefully considered and honest.
Beta-Reading
A beta-read review does not include any edits. The purpose of this particular review is to provide you with a better understanding of reader experience, and is recommended for near-final to final drafts. A beta-read review will report on the overall feel of your manuscript, exploring how audiences might react to various elements such as characterisation, setting, plot twists and style.
You may ask up to thirty beta-read questions (see examples above) for submissions under 100,000 words, and up to fifty beta-read questions for submissions over 100,000 words.
This particular review approaches your work as though it were being presented to its intended audience in its final form. If you do not believe your work to be near this stage, I strongly recommend a comprehensive review.
ELLIE J DUCK 