Written and provided in electronic form, our appraisals offer honest and informed editorial, market, and publishing feedback.
Our goal is to provide authors with a clear understanding of their manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses, to illuminate the path toward unlocking its full potential.
Detailed Editorial Feedback
We provide clear and detailed editorial feedback on your story, including aspects such as language, characterisation, narrative flow, dialogue, and structure. We also focus on your manuscript’s age-group suitability, theme, purpose, and commercial appeal.
We are available to appraise the following:
- Children’s Picture Book: up to 1000 words. Submissions may be text, illustrations, or both.
- First Three chapters: (up to 20,000 words) junior fiction, young adult, and longer Picture book texts
- Manuscripts up to 20,000 words: complete junior fiction works.
- Manuscripts over 20,000 words: complete older reader’s work.
- Submission Proposal: assist and or edit your publishing cover letter and synopsis. We help you write/edit your publishing cover letter, synopsis, and author biography, to make sure these important documents are everything they could be.
CONSULTANCY
We offer personalised guidance tailored to support the specific needs and goals and style of the creator or publisher, through a one-on-one consultation.
MENTORING
If you are looking for curated, one-on-one guidance guidance for your writing or illustrative work, we are here to help. Laura Harris offers mentoring packages and programs.
WORKSHOPS
We are excited to offer intimate and inspiring Children’s Book Writing and Illustrating workshops with a wide variety of talented and esteemed creators.