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"[W]riting 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 that a reputable literary agent can receive a few hundred manuscripts every week. Whether your work is given a proper look or whether it ends up in the famous slush pile will sometimes depend on the sound of the synopsis or the sound of the first page. Don't let it depend on the wrong line spacing or the wrong font size!

A literary consultant can play a major role here. Some of the best literary agents these days highly recommend sending your work to a consultant before sending it to them. This way, they know they're getting not only good quality material, but properly presented, correctly spelt and edited to standards. Once the presentation is dealt with, we can move on to ensuring consistent and compelling characters, flawless story development, a well-knitted plot with no loose ends, a sustained pace, a logical structure with a consistent narrative and an overall market awareness.

We, at Daniel Goldsmith Associates, are book editors and literary consultants. We are a small team of enthusiast graduates and post-graduates ready to work on your manuscript. How does our literary consultancy work? Once we read your work, if we consider ourselves able to recommend it to a literary agent or directly to a book publisher, we will discuss the options with you and we will be happy to recommend you free of charge. If we think you need to do some more work on your manuscript, we will send you a detailed manuscript critique report and our suggestions for a 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 we are one of the most reasonably priced literary consultancies in the UK.

Why would you employ an independent book editor to read and assess your manuscript? Because you know your work is worth at least an independent opinion. 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 us for a high quality, very personal and very constructive literary critique and a (sometimes brutally) honest opinion on your writing.

If you write fiction (commercial and literary fiction, fantasy, thriller, mystery, 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 etc) and children's literature, we will gladly accept your work. However, we do not currently accept poetry, theatre, screenplays, academic books and science-fiction.

We are also happy to accept unsolicited manuscripts, first-time authors manuscripts and unfinished work. If you're stuck with your work and feel that a professional literary analysis and a constructive critique are the only things you need in order to make progress with your project, you've arrived to the right place. Or, if you're fairly happy with your work, but keep getting rejections from literary agents, involving a literary consultant 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.