Description: Preparing a manuscript worthy of publication is a tricky task. Various pitfalls can trip you up along the way. Our honest advice helps you avoid poor decisions.
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ManuscriptCritique explains the value of professional feedback. There is an educational cost for every profession, and an editing fee is an investment in the author's future. Serious authors want to improve. As a result, they get a professional manuscript critique/book edit to identify their novel’s weaknesses so that they can correct them. Learning from industry pros is the way to go. If there’s a key to success, it’s a manuscript critique. MY PHILOSOPHY: Writers are entertainers who perform on pages rathe
Get used to criticism. Your work will be criticized time and again, by book reviewers, readers, and other authors. Remember, millions of readers love Stephen King while millions of others don't. No one can please everybody. A qualified manuscript critique allows you to at least head off some of that criticism, as a result, by fixing glaring problems in advance. It takes an industry professional to tell you what those issues are. You simply can't do it on your own. Consider this analogy: Your home needs a ma
Today's greatest challenge for writers is not getting published; it's selling published books.