If you plan on self-publishing your book you may have already checked into the cost for printing. A typical quantity 100 of a 250 to 300 page paperback, including shipping, can run around $800 to $1,000.
Unless you are going to do the typesetting and cover design yourself, you’ll need to also factor those costs into your investment. Before investing significant time, money and effort in publishing your book, would you agree it is wise to get a detailed assessment of your book’s quality of writing, clarity of your message and general readability before taking the plunge?
That’s where the Manuscript Evaluation service comes in. I will carefully and thoughtfully read your manuscript from beginning to end and provide very explicit feedback for you on what works, what could be better and how to fix the weaknesses.
A manuscript evaluation is not editing. It is evaluating the quality of the writing. If your book needs doctoring and you hire me to do it, I will apply 50% of your investment in the Manuscript Evaluation towards the doctoring, which could be a combination of editing and maybe some ghostwriting.
Writing a book is a skill as exacting as painting a watercolor, making a movie, or doing brain surgery (Hmm . . . brain surgery may be a bit of an exaggeration) but the point is, unless you have been trained in the skill of story writing, the trap of not knowing what you don’t know about story writing can kill the most compelling story.
Fair Warning!
Do not rely on the feedback from family and friends unless they are professional writers, editors or publishers. Their opinion is worth exactly what you pay for it. A possible budget option is to find an English major who could do a pretty good job of giving you honest, worthwhile feedback. But barring that, save yourself the abject heartache of having boxes of unsold books stashed away in your garage, constantly reminding you of the failure of your dreams for your story. Invest in a Manuscript Evaluation.
Manuscript Evaluation ($450 per 45,000 words)
Go here to get a FREE No Obligation Price Quote. to see if a Manuscript Evaluation is the right thing for you (and if I am the right person to do it for you).