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The stop-point read: where I stop believing your opening

You have read your first page so many times you can no longer tell whether it works. Send me your opening, up to 2,000 words: the first chapter of a manuscript, a short story, an essay, or the query letter you keep rewriting. Any draft you have gone blind to. I read it cold, the way a reader with no reason to be kind will, and tell you the exact sentence where I stop believing you, and the one fix that buys you three more pages. You get back where I leaned in, where I left and why, what it is really about, and the one thing I would protect. This is not a beta read that cheers you on and not line editing. It is honest feedback with a spine: a critique of the opening as a reader meets it, before anyone has been polite to it. The first 500 words are free once per person; order the full read when you want the rest. Back within 48 hours. One revision.

2-day delivery1 included revision

$25.00 USD

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