 |  |  |  |  |
Manuscript Critique with Mentoring Service (Fiction)
Does your manuscript have commercial value? Let our team of professionals study it and provide you with the
best feedback and suggestions available. Significantly lower the cost of an edit after you have made your
revisions! Note: should you choose to use the Full Manuscript Service after your critique, we will apply your
payment to the Full Manuscript Service price!
Everything we offer is constructive criticism and in a spirit of fellowship. You're paying us to tell you the truth. As
the artist, feel free to use anything or nothing that we suggest, though we find that authors are very grateful for
the feedback and suggestions and use close to 97% of the suggestions provided.
Many authors have praised our services, and you'll find a few of these on "About Us." What you say in your new-
release interview blogs is up to you—you're also paying us for complete discretion.
There will be communication by email, throughout the process, plus an initial 30 minute phone introduction/
planning session and up to 2 hours additional phone mentoring (divided into blocks as you feel needed; extra
blocks of phone time available for $40/hour)
Here's some of what we'll be considering—we'll tell you the rules of writing, so you'll know when to break them
intentionally. Your manuscript will be read cover-to-cover, critiqued extensively, and you will be given specific,
detailed suggestions for improvement (or confirmation that you are on the right track) in the following areas:
Does your manuscript have commercial value? Let our team of professionals study it and provide you with the
best feedback and suggestions available. Significantly lower the cost of an edit after you have made your
revisions! Note: should you choose to use the Full Manuscript Service after your critique, we will apply your
payment to the Full Manuscript Service price!
Everything we offer is constructive criticism and in a spirit of fellowship. You're paying us to tell you the truth. As
the artist, feel free to use anything or nothing that we suggest, though we find that authors are very grateful for
the feedback and suggestions and use close to 97% of the suggestions provided.
Many authors have praised our services, and you'll find a few of these on "About Us." What you say in your new-
release interview blogs is up to you—you're also paying us for complete discretion.
There will be communication by email, throughout the process, plus an initial 30 minute phone introduction/
planning session and up to 2 hours additional phone mentoring (divided into blocks as you feel needed; extra
blocks of phone time available for $40/hour)
Here's some of what we'll be considering—we'll tell you the rules of writing, so you'll know when to break them
intentionally. Your manuscript will be read cover-to-cover, critiqued extensively, and you will be given specific,
detailed suggestions for improvement (or confirmation that you are on the right track) in the following areas:
| The Finishers © 2007. All Rights Reserved |
- opening and closing scenes
- back story
- data dump
- weak verbiage
- qualifiers
- theme
- style
- redundancies
- description
- showing-not-telling
- cliches
- sensory details
- action-pacing
- conflict
- voice
- mechanics (spelling, sentence
and paragraph structure, etc.) - organization
- - - - - - - - -
You will receive a 30 to 40 page analysis, critique, and detailed suggestions and recommendations for a novel,
depending on the manuscript's needs and its length. In addition you will receive a total of 2.5 hours of phone
consultation/ mentoring. For shorter works like stories, please enquire about specifics. We don't critique poetry.
Turn around time: 3-4 weeks from your queue point.
Suggestion: reserve your spot ahead of time otherwise your manuscript will automatically be given the next
available start date. Start dates are guaranteed.
Cost of Manuscript Critique and Mentoring: $799 for up to 80 000 words. Enquire about cost for novels or books
over 80 000 words or stories less than 40 000 words.
Preferred method of payment: PayPal if you have an account set up OR through PayPal with a credit card
without an established account. Other methods considered by contacting us.
Payment due at least 5 days in advance of your guaranteed start date.
You will receive a 30 to 40 page analysis, critique, and detailed suggestions and recommendations for a novel,
depending on the manuscript's needs and its length. In addition you will receive a total of 2.5 hours of phone
consultation/ mentoring. For shorter works like stories, please enquire about specifics. We don't critique poetry.
Turn around time: 3-4 weeks from your queue point.
Suggestion: reserve your spot ahead of time otherwise your manuscript will automatically be given the next
available start date. Start dates are guaranteed.
Cost of Manuscript Critique and Mentoring: $799 for up to 80 000 words. Enquire about cost for novels or books
over 80 000 words or stories less than 40 000 words.
Preferred method of payment: PayPal if you have an account set up OR through PayPal with a credit card
without an established account. Other methods considered by contacting us.
Payment due at least 5 days in advance of your guaranteed start date.
- depth of characterization
- secondary character balance
- distinct character voices
- dialogue
- dialogue tags
- emotion
- names
- narration
- point of view (PoV)
- setting
- plot development
- plot pacing
- plot realism
- marketability
| For those of you writing for the Christian market or the cross-over market, not only will our critique teach you the craft, we will advise whether it has a solid theological grounding and how to accommodate any questionable aspects— better to get a jump on this facet of your manuscript before sending it to a Christian agent and/ or publisher and risk its rejection on theological grounds! |