Services

You may be asking yourself, why pay for professional editing/critiquing when there are plenty of ways to get a CP for free? Here are a few reasons:

Time. When you take on a CP, the relationship is typically mutual, an exchange of one MS for another. While reading another writer's WIP is a great way to learn, like most of us, I expect you are trying to balance a day job and family/friend commitments with your own writing. Taking the time to read and edit a full MS might just not be feasible for you. Especially when you could be using that time to draft a query letter or a new WIP.

Commitment. There are some really fantastic CP's out there in the writer forums, I should know, I was lucky enough to stumble upon a few of the best when working on my own WIP. But when it comes to a friendly exchange of MS's, there is always the worry of overburdening your writer friends. Getting a critique from someone you are paying to do so puts a whole other level of commitment on the part of the critquer and removes the worry that you might be encroaching on a friend's editing hospitality. Keeping your critiques as an exchange of business is often a simpler and cleaner transaction.

Subjectivity. We hear this term tossed around often in the publishing world (sometimes as a line in a rejection email, unfortunately), but there is a reason for this; it's true. Subjectivity is often a driving factor in critiques we get and give. What one CP might hate, another might love, so what do you do when it comes time to institute edits, especially when they contradict? I have proven myself as a literary agent intern to be able to look at a wide variety of genres and provide feedback as objectively as possible. Since I personally sift through the slush looking for gems to recommend to the agent, I can see right away what works and what doesn't. There is always a degree of subjectivity when your work is edited, but my professional experience can help you to get as objective of a critique as possible.

Services:

I will provide more specifics on what I am offering as services/pricing in the near future, but to give a basic overview, here is what I am looking to offer:

• Query Reviews
• Synopsis Reviews
• Page Reviews (broken into increments, such as 10 pages, 50 pages, etc., with relative pricing)
• Full Manuscript Reviews (with a cap, such as 100K, and prorated rates for works that exceed that cap)

If you'd like more details on these services in the meantime, don't hesitate to email me at: WriterlySmiterly@gmail.com