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What is an Editorial Assessment?
An editorial assessment is a high level, professional evaluation of a book manuscript. Its purpose is to provide a high level, big picture evaluation of a manuscript, acting as a diagnostic roadmap for authors, so that they're able to determine their strengths and weaknesses before they spend time and money on editing.
Typical editorial assessment services start at $600 for a novella, and $1200 for a standard novel (about 80K words). However, we don’t want to be like the rest. We want our services to not only be affordable, but to be worthwhile. To do that, we’ve included:
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Payment plans
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A chapter by chapter analysis
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A research document
Why Should You Choose Us?
The Process
Submit Your Book
In order to be considered for an editorial assessment, your submission must go through an initial evaluation to determine acceptance. To submit your book for evaluation, please click here.
Confirmation Email
Once your request has been submitted, please monitor your inbox, as we'll be sending you an email confirming whether or not we are accepting the project.
Fill out the Form
Once you've received an email confirmation stating that we've accepted your book for an assessment, please submit your Editorial Assessment Request form as completely and accurately as possible
Choose Your Plan
If you find that you're unable to pay the amount for our services, then after you've completed your form, choose the appropriate payment plan option.
The Waiting Period
The time allotted for the editorial assessment process depends on the length of your manuscript. To see our estimated turnaround times for editorial assessments. please take a look at our pricing breakdown below.
Your Assessment
Once your editorial assessment is completed, you'll receive an email from us with the assessment attached. If you've opted into receiving a chapter by chapter analysis, and/or a research document, they will be attached as well. All attachments will be in PDF format.
Assessment Elements
Our editorial assessments are broken up into 24 elements. This allows us to dig deeper when writing our editorial assessments and organize our thoughts more accurately.
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Characters
Characters are what drive the story. Or at least, they should. In order to have a great story, you need great characters.
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Plot
Plot = substance. Does your story have substance?
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Conflict
There are many types of conflict. But it's how you use that conflict that determines which way your story will go.
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Resolution
Not all stories resolve with a happy ending. Some don't resolve at all. How does your story end?
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Structure
Structure is just as important as plot. Without structure, the plot becomes confusing and the information unreadable.
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Plot Twists
Plot twists are the mighty explosions that impact your story in a way that keeps people talking. However, if not used responsibly, they have the power to wreck your story in a way that may be deemed irrepairable.
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Pacing
Pacing can make or break your story. Don't let bad pacing cost you your audience.
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Worldbuilding
Where will you take us? Where will we go?
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Genre(s)
Genre is the little box we put our story in and is usually the first thing that determines whether or not someone will read it.
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Book Title
A book's title goes hand and hand with its cover. Give them a story, without giving them the story.
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Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing makes the plot twists feel earned.
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Tone and Atmosphere
Readers want to feel something. The tone and atmosphere should fit the story that you're trying to tell.
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Point of View
This includes 1st-3rd person, as well as character point of view.
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Overall Storytelling Ability
How good are your storytelling skills?
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Strengths
What makes your story strong?
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Advice
We're always in your corner, ready to give you any advice that we feel may help push your story along.
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Book Cover
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but the cover is one of the main reasons that we picked up the book in the first place.
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Overall Enjoyability
Not everyone will like your book. And that's ok. Don't base your credibility of being an author on someone else's opinions.
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Setting(s)
Arguably one of the most overlooked, supportive layers a story can have.
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Theme(s)
What's the overall message that you're trying to tell the reader?
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Marketability
Everything has a market. But does your story fit the market that you're trying to sell it in?
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Book Synopsis
After the cover, this is a potential reader's next stop to determine whether or not they'll read your book.
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Weaknesses
What makes your story weak?
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Chapter Hooks & Endings
Chapters should always start and end with a bang.
How are our book reviews different from our editorial assessments?
The editorial assessments that we provide are more extensive than the average editorial assessment, and provides you with feedback that we believe will take you further in your author career.
Unlike our book reviews:
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Our editorial assessments are priced by word count.
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Our editorial assessments include more elements.
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Our editorial assessments include an optional chapter by chapter analysis.
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Our editorial assessments include an optional research document.
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Our editorial assessments take more time.
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Our editorial assessments are a bit more expensive.
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Our editorial assessments are private and only seen by you and whoever you share it to.
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Our editorial assessments are only for unpublished works of fiction.
Rules and Regulations
Must be a Complete and Unpublished Work of Fiction
At this time, we are only taking completed, fictional works into consideration. If you’re interested in a deep dive analysis on a published work of fiction, please take a look at our book review services.
You Must Submit Your Request and Then Fill Out the Form
In order for your written work to be taken into consideration, you must submit a request for us to review your manuscript, and if it's accepted, you must fill out an Editorial Assessment Request form. If you submit this request any other way, it will not count as received and we may not respond.
You Must Meet Age Requirements
We do not work with anyone under the age of 13. Those who are between the ages 13 and 17 must obtain a signature from a parent or legal guardian. Signatures can be applied to the Editorial Assessment Request form in the appropriate field.
Must be a Novel, Novella, or Short Story
Accepted works include novels, novellas, and short stories. At this time, anything that falls outside of those three categories are not permitted. We are not accepting poems, children’s picture books, essay’s, textbooks or guides, memoirs, or articles.
Must be a Written Work
All submissions must be written works. We are not accepting submissions for anything video and/or audio related.
Must Not Include Plagiarism or Copyright Infringement
If your work is found to be plagiarized or infringe on someone else's copyright, we will decline your request. All written work must be your own. If your work is found to be plagiarized or infringe on someone's copyright after an editorial assessment has already been done, we will no longer accept you as a client.
Must Not Include AI
If your work is found to be written by AI, we will decline your request. We want to review YOUR work, not a computer's theft. If your work is found to be written by AI after an editorial assessment has already been done, we will no longer accept you as a client.
Partial Reviews
Partial editorial assessments are not permitted. If you submit an 80K word book, but you only request for the first 30K to be assessed, your request for an editorial assessment will be declined.
Book Submission
Price Breakdown
If you cancel your plan before all appropriate payments are made, we are not obligated, nor will we complete our assessment of your manuscript. However, if after canceling you decide to come back to our services in the future for the same manuscript, please contact us through our Support page and we can further assist. If we find that you signed up previously, canceled your plan, and are attempting to sign up again with a new manuscript, you are still responsible for completing the payments for your originally submitted manuscript before we accept any new manuscripts from you. If you find yourself unable to meet the terms of your payment plan, please reach out to us through our Support page so that we can better personalize your plan.
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #1
50
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 1K - 30K Words option
Valid for 5 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #2
100
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 30K+1 - 60K Words option
Valid for 5 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #3
75
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 60K+1 - 100K Words option
Valid for 10 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #4
100
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 100K+1 - 150K Words option
Valid for 10 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #5
125
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 150K+1 - 200K Words option
Valid for 10 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #6
125
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 200K+1 - 250K Words option
Valid for 12 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #7
125
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 250K+1 - 300K Words option
Valid for 14 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #8
125
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 300K+1 - 350K Words option
Valid for 16 months
+ 30 day free trial
Editorial Assessment Payment Plan #9
150
Every month
ONLY if you selected the 350K+1 - 400K Words option
Valid for 15 months
+ 30 day free trial
Payment Plans
Refund Policy
Please be sure to read the Rules and Regulations, the Right of Refusal, as well as this Refund Policy before submitting your editorial assessment request.
All rules and regulations must be followed when you’re submitting your written work for an assessment. Breaking any of those rules and regulations will result in having your refund request denied.
Our Right of Refusal states that we can decline an editorial assessment request for any reason at any time at our discretion. If your written work follows all of the rules and regulations, but is still declined, then you will be offered a refund.
Refund requests must be submitted to our Support page before we confirm acceptance of your book for an assessment. Once accepted, the service is non-refundable.
Refunds are processed within 3-5 business days. Once that refund has been fully processed on our end, if you have any further questions or concerns regarding your refund, please contact your card carrier.
Right of Refusal
House of Wrytagan reserves the right to decline any submission for any reason at our sole discretion. Submitting a manuscript for an editorial assessment does not guarantee that your manuscript will be assessed. If your request is declined, we are under no obligation to provide feedback, editorial critique, or justification for our decision. However, as stated in our Refund Policy, we will offer you a refund. If you understand and would like to proceed, please select Get Started below.