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IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you are planning on submitting your work to The Lobe Literary Agency, please do not submit your work to my critique service. Since I own both businesses, I don't want to create a conflict of interest. Therefore, no works that go through this critique service will be accepted by The Agency.
The guidelines are pretty straight forward...I'm willing to offer you detailed critiques of your fiction for a small fee. That fee is $4 for the first thousand words, and an additional $2 for each thousand words after that. There is no limit as to how long a manuscript can be for me to critique it.
What you will get is a detailed critique outlining what I think works, as well as what I feel doesn't work in your manuscript. I will do some grammatical editing, but I will mostly edit for content. I will offer you useful suggestions as to how to improve your work...and I may even offer suggestions on where you might submit your work, if I can think of a publisher that would be interested in such work.
You can send your manuscripts to me by e-mail or by snail-mail, but your check must come to me via snail-mail. If you send your manuscript via e-mail, send it as an e-mail attachment formatted in Word or ASCII. Snail mail submissions need to follow standard manuscript guidelines, i.e. double spaced, one sided, etc. Snail-mail submissions would be preferred because I can (and will) write on your manuscript. It's not as easy ot do that on an e-mail submission. If you submit via snail-mail, please include an SASE and an e-mail address.
Snail-mail manuscripts or checks can be sent to:
J Erwine
950 W. 103rd Pl. Apt. 204B
Northglenn, Co. 80260
E-mail manuscripts can be sent to:
You can also direct any questions to either of these addresses as well. I also guarantee that your critique will be done within two months of the receipt of the check, or it's FREE!
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