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Editorial services
Make your book submission-ready with expert feedback
Professional editing will help your manuscript land with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
Whether you’re preparing to query agents, self-publish your novel, or simply want an expert’s eye before your next draft—The Writing Grove offers personalised, in-depth editing for fiction writers ready to finish strong.
From high-level, structural feedback to final proofreading, we work with writers at every stage of their manuscript.
What we offer
Manuscript editing, advising & mentorship
We can help you with all kinds of writing—fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books—and welcome authors from around the globe.
Our editorial assessments provide in-depth structural reports from professional book editors, giving you clear, actionable feedback on everything from your story’s commercial potential and genre fit to plot, pacing, voice and character development.
Crime fiction advising
The Writing Grove partners exclusively with bestselling author Graham Bartlett to offer crime fiction manuscript review. Mention us for a 10% discount on all Graham's services.
As a police procedure and crime advisor, Graham works with over 200 authors and TV writers including Peter James, Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Mark Billingham and the BBC, helping them inject authenticity into their work.
Writer, USA
I learned how to inject detail and emotion in my writing.