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Professional feedback companies

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  • 12-12-2014 8:57pm
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    partnership
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭


    Has anyone used a company to look at their novel and give feedback. Just wondering if they are worth it.


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Well, I know Inkwell/writing.ie do a manuscript service, which seems to be good value for money.

    I had a full novel assessed by Emma Walsh, which was not cheap, but I think it was worth it. I got seventeen pages of all the things that were wrong with my novel, and she was right about all of them, damn it.


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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    EileenG wrote: »
    I had a full novel assessed by Emma Walsh, which was not cheap, but I think it was worth it. I got seventeen pages of all the things that were wrong with my novel, and she was right about all of them, damn it.

    Look on the bright side Eileen. It was ONLY seventeen pages. I'm not a professional but I could find more than that wrong with many novels I've read.:D


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    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    If you're going to that trouble why not just get an agent?


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    catallus wrote: »
    If you're going to that trouble why not just get an agent?

    Ah, sweet innocence. Because it's harder to get an agent than a publisher. An agent will not take you on unless you have a book that is already very close to being ready to publish. And if she does not accept you, she is not going to give you a crit of what's wrong with your novel, it's just, "Thanks, this is not for us."


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