Free manuscript assessment

A full read of your manuscript

Alex reads the whole book — not a sample — and sends back a written assessment. No payment, no card, nothing to cancel.

What the assessment covers

  • Complete manuscript overview - Overall strengths and development opportunities
  • Key structural insights - Pacing, organization, and narrative flow
  • Character development overview - Protagonist journey and supporting character effectiveness
  • Thematic depth assessment - Core themes and their development
  • Professional priority recommendations - Next steps for improvement
  • Detailed PDF report via email

Want chapter-by-chapter detail?

This free assessment is a whole-book overview. The chapter-by-chapter work — your editors working the prose with you, line by line — happens inside AuthorsLab.

Word (.docx) or PDF

Send the .docx if you have one — we take the text straight from it. A PDF works too, as long as its text can be selected; scanned pages cannot be read.

Choose your manuscript file
Drag a .docx or PDF here, or choose one from your computer.
Send the whole book, not a sample.
Accepted formats: Word (.docx) or PDF
Maximum size: 20MB
Length: up to 140,000 words
PDFs: the text must be selectable — scanned pages cannot be read

The assessment arrives by email as a PDF, from editors@authorslab.ai. A recent 63,000-word novel took about three and a half minutes.