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Stefanie Takes a Story From Good to Great
It’s remarkable how in only 10 minutes Stefanie was able to cut to the heart of my story and suggest a small edit with a big impact. She was very kind and began with the positive features of my story before jumping in with potential changes. Overall worth the money! 10 minutes was the perfect amount of time for discussing the first page of my children’s book.
Thank you Stefanie!
Autumn Powell
July 14, 2025
Cleaned up my word count!
The critique was helpful and thorough. I felt like the feedback was useful in guiding me to make improvements. She also helped cut my word count down by a ton giving me space to improve my ending!
Also the team was very responsive when my submission would not go through.
Megan
July 14, 2025
Constructive, actionable feedback
With just a few short pages, Carina understood what I was going for, praised what she thought was working, and gave actionable and constructive feedback on how and where to improve. The authors who have the opportunity to work with you her lucky indeed! She really helped me see where I could keep the reader’s attention, and what aspects of the manuscript I should highlight to show its commercial appeal to potential agents and editors. She is also very kind and constructive with her feedback.
I wanted to write this review to let other writers know how helpful working with her has been to me, and that it will be time well spent.
Shannon Ledger
July 14, 2025
“Professional, Precise, and So Helpful”
Liv’s feedback took my query letter to the next level. Her suggestions were smart, concise, and made a real difference. I appreciated her thoughtful approach and how easy she was to collaborate with. Highly recommend her expertise!
Monica Matulich
July 14, 2025
Collaborative query experience was amazing!
Baker was personable, knowledgeable, helpful, and generous with his time and efforts. I appreciated the experience of talking with him about the query itself and the overall industry, and once he’d rewritten the query, I was incredibly happy with the finished product. I haven’t started submitting yet but I feel like I’ll be in a much stronger position when I do. Many thanks, Baker!
H.B.
July 14, 2025
Short sweet and succinct
Krista gave such good suggestions, along with a positive voice.
Karen Miller
July 14, 2025
24 Karat Gold Katharine
My 30 pages + query consult was terrific. Helpful constructive feedback, enthusiastic comments about the strengths of the query and manuscript and proposal, and solid suggestions for tweaks. Thank you Katharine!
Patricia J Wentzel
July 14, 2025
Kudos to Katharine
My query +proposal +pages consult was all I could have wished for. Enthusiastic comments about the strengths of the work, constructive suggestions for tweaks, some guidance on changing the order of info in the query, and a connection to a local to me resource. Her feedback was very helpful.
Patricia J Wentzel
July 14, 2025
Stellar feedback
My session with Tamara went great! She took the time to familiarize herself with my query ahead of time, was organized and efficient with her points, and gave some very useful feedback.
It was well worth it!
Jb Svari
July 14, 2025
Excellent investment, great feedback
Jessica was extremely helpful during our 10 minute consultation. She was able to provide analysis and feedback that I hadn’t considered, and that has allowed me to shape the story in a clearer direction. It was time and money very well spent. Thank you Jessica!
Darren
July 14, 2025
I Bow to Erica Bowman
Erica Bauman is such a delightful human that just chatting with her would have been a lovely experience on its own, but during our ten-minute meeting to talk about my novel’s first page, she shared insights that astounded me—and helped me greatly. Erica possesses a remarkable x-ray vision that saw into the characters and beyond that opening scene. What I’m particularly grateful for is her suggestion to start the action just a few moments before I had. Thanks to Erica, a quick-fix ultimately enhanced the entire chapter significantly.
Bud Jennings
July 14, 2025
Very Insightful!
Manuscript Academy delivers another great Live Query + 10-Page Read + 15-Minute Consultation! Ruqayyah Daud provided great feedback into what was working well and the few areas she thought we could improve. Plus, she shared excellent market insight on how to position our work even more!
K. R. Raye
July 14, 2025