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"Writing is an incredibly lonely occupation and to be able to talk problems through with an interested and experienced reader can be a lifeline." Yvonne Hooker, Senior Editor, Puffin Books*

It is widely known a good literary agent can receive hundreds of manuscripts a week. Most of the unsolicited ones will end up in the slush pile or they will be sent back without a proper look. Sadly, sometimes it all depends on the sound of the synopsis or the sound of the first page, or even more unfairly, on the wrong line spacing or the wrong font size.

This is where a literary consultant plays a major role. Best literary agents these days highly recommend sending your work to a consultant before sending it to them. This way, they know theyre getting not only good quality material, but properly presented, correctly spelt and nicely edited. One big thing authors dont have to worry about anymore. Apart from consistent and compelling characters, flawless story development, well-knitted plot with no loose ends, a sustained pace and an overall market awareness. A few more things authors do need to worry about.

We are book editors and literary consultants. We are a small team of enthusiast graduates and post-graduates ready to work on your manuscript. If we consider ourselves able to recommend it to a literary agent or directly to a book publisher, we will tell you the good news and ask for your permission to recommend it to a top agent or even publisher, free of charge. If we think you need to do some more work on your manuscript, we will send you a detailed report and our suggestions for a small fee. Our report is a detailed literary analysis of your manuscript. See our Services page for more details. To see what you would be likely to receive, check our Samples of Critique Reports page. Also, please check our Fees and you will notice that our fares are some of the fairest in the literary consultancy market in the UK.

You know your work is worth a lot. You put a great deal of time and effort into writing a book, so giving it the chance of a professional literary analysis is the fairest and easiest thing you can do. You might just be the famous next big thing that all literary agents and publishers are always looking for or you could be just a hard-working aspiring author prepared to put in any amount of effort in order to improve her or his work. Either way, you can count on a highest standard literary critique and a (sometimes brutally) honest opinion from us.

If you write fiction (commercial and literary fiction, fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, chick-lit, lad-lit etc), non-fiction (celebrity biographies, women's literature, sports books, self-improvement books, social sciences, history, health and beauty, everyday psychology, fashion, cookery, religion, gardening, property developing, travelling, journalism, business, success stories, politics, parenting) and children's literature, we will gladly accept your work. However, we cannot accept poetry, theatre, academic books and science-fiction.

We will be accepting screenplays soon. Keep checking our website for updates.

We are also pleased to accept unsolicited manuscripts, first-time authors manuscripts and unfinished work. If you're stuck with your work and feel that that a professional literary analysis and a constructive critique are the only things you need in order to progress with your project, you're in the right place. If you're fairly happy with your work but keep getting rejections from literary agents, literary criticism might be the right solution. Feel free to browse our website for more details on how we can help get your book published or accepted by a literary agency, get in touch and we'll be happy to find out more about you and your book.

*Quotation from What does an Editor do? in Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008, p. 129. Yvonne Hooker and Puffin Books do not endorse Daniel Goldsmith Associates services.