Romance Manuscript Evaluation
*now taking manuscript evaluation projects for June 2025
Manuscript evaluations will diagnose your book's issues and give you general advice on how to fix them. It's not as detailed as a developmental edit, and you won't receive in-line manuscript feedback, but if you're looking to give your book a general polish at an affordable price, this service is for you!
Manuscript evaluations are especially great if you:
-want to submit your romance novel to traditional publishers, and are looking to polish your manuscript prior to submission, or
-are self-publishing your romance novel and can't afford a full developmental edit, but still want an expert pair of eyes to assess your manuscript's strengths and weaknesses
When I do manuscript evaluations, I look for genre-specific issues related to romance plot structure, character development, tropes, and reader and sub-genre expectations, as well as more general fiction issues like:
-your book's hook
-pacing
-narrative arc
-narrative continuity
-POV
-chapter openers, closers, and transitions
-chapter length
-showing vs. telling
-repetition
-tone
-dialogue
-patterns of grammar, spelling, and language errors (to help you self-edit)
Price:
10,000-50,000 word manuscripts: $250/£195
51,000-100,000-word manuscripts: $300/£233