Free mini-critique

Get one useful note before you pay for an edit.

Send the first page of a romance, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller, mystery, or related commercial-fiction manuscript. You will get a short critique focused on clarity, sentence friction, reader confusion, and one revision priority.

What you get

  • One specific strength from the page.
  • Two notes on clarity, rhythm, repetition, or sentence friction.
  • One reader question that may point to a bigger issue.
  • One concrete revision priority.

What to send

  • Your genre.
  • Your manuscript status: finished draft, revised draft, near-final draft, or preparing to publish.
  • One worry you already have about the page.
  • The first page pasted into the email body, or a private link to a short sample.

What this is not

This is not a full edit, a rewrite, or a promise that the manuscript is ready for publishing. It is a small, practical look at how the opening page is landing.

Why start small

A first page often reveals patterns that repeat through a manuscript: point-of-view drift, unclear action, repeated emotional beats, overexplaining, or missing stakes. Fixing those patterns early can make the full edit more useful.