Manuscript Evaluation

From draft to dynamite. Discover how a professional manuscript evaluation can help you turn your story into a standout.

Manuscript Evaluation

Objective insights, detailed feedback, actionable steps. Elevate your manuscript to the next level with an expert evaluation. Unlock your manuscript’s potential with precise feedback and actionable advice. Elevate your story with a professional evaluation. From rough draft to reader ready. Learn how our detailed evaluations can help you refine and perfect your manuscript. Make every word count. Find out how our expert evaluation service can help you refine your manuscript for maximum impact.

At Professional Guided Publishing, our seasoned evaluators are primed to take you from manuscript to masterpiece. We’ll review your current draft to evaluate its structural soundness, clarity, and cohesion and prepare a detailed breakdown of what’s working, what isn’t working, and what it will take to fix it—with the goal of creating a final product that will resonate with readers.

Why Trust PGP with Your Manuscript Evaluation?

Professional Expertise

Our manuscript evaluators are experienced professional editors who understand better than anyone what works in a manuscript and what doesn’t. Whatever your genre or subject matter, your evaluator will provide invaluable insights you can use to elevate your work.

Objective Feedback

You love your book, but will readers? Your evaluator will advocate for your future readers by providing you with unbiased and objective feedback—in a way that your brother, best friend, or business partner just can’t.

Detailed Analysis & Tailored Recommendations

When you commit to a manuscript evaluation, you’ll receive a comprehensive breakdown of your manuscript’s strengths and weaknesses and, more importantly, specific, actionable suggestions tailored to your manuscript’s unique needs. Use your evaluation as a step-by-step guide to a more perfect manuscript.

Time-Saving Tips

Why guess which areas of your manuscript need improvement and work through endless rounds of revisions when you can receive a clear, expert-driven roadmap to a better book? Our laser-focused guidance allows you to make targeted revisions more efficiently, ultimately accelerating the path to a polished final draft.

Enhanced Skills

Through your manuscript evaluation, you’ll be asked to confront the elements of your writing that need improvement, and you’ll learn how to address outstanding issues. Authors who implement these teachings and techniques grow and improve as writers and are able to apply their insights to future writing projects.

Manuscript Evaluation FAQs

How does the evaluation process work?
It’s simple. You submit your manuscript to us. We read it, evaluate it, and prepare a detailed report you then use to enhance your current draft.
The timeline varies based on a number of factors, including the length of your manuscript and the complexity of your subject matter, but authors typically receive their completed evaluations within one to four weeks.
That’s up to you. Some authors feel empowered to tackle lingering problems in their manuscripts by themselves. Others prefer to work with a professional developmental, line, or copy editor to help them reach their goals. We support the choice that’s right for you! If you find you do need additional editing services after your evaluation, our team can help you choose the appropriate level of editing for your project.
The cost varies based on the specifics of your unique manuscript. Contact us for a detailed quote.
Yes! If you’ve made significant changes to your manuscript after receiving your evaluation, you may want confirmation that you’ve achieved your intended goal—or you may feel you have more to do and need additional guidance. Either way, signing on for a second manuscript evaluation can provide you with the answers you’re seeking. Our team will assess your updated draft and word count to determine pricing for an additional evaluation or editing engagement.

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