For publishers and authors
Manuscript analysisKnow what’s working before anyone else reads it
Upload a manuscript and get a scored read of its characters, plot, promise and prose, developmental notes in the margins of a copy, and proofreading and consistency fixes you approve before they go back into your file.
- Basic analysis free on every upload
- Monthly AI credits on every plan
- Evaluation: 5 credits
Manuscript evaluation · 5 credits
The Moth Orchard
86Overall, out of 100
Verdict
Meets the bar for its genre
Overall assessment
From first draft to a clean file
Authors use it to check a draft before querying or publishing. Publishers use it to read a queue of submissions and to clean up the books they take on.
Manuscript evaluation
Scores you can act on, with the reasons behind them.
Each section breaks into focus areas with their own score and a written assessment, so a 76 for pacing comes with a note on where the story drags. Tell the evaluator what the book is doing on purpose, and it judges that choice on its own terms.
- Character: personality, role, decisions, motivations
- Plot: pacing, structure, themes, setting
- Promise: whether the opening’s tone, arcs and plot are paid off
- Quality: info dumps, action and dialogue beats, dialect, the senses
Character
91Plot
84Guidance for the evaluator
The grandmother only ever speaks through the moths. That is deliberate; judge it as a choice.
Notes in the margin
Developmental notes where the problem is.
Upload a .docx and every evaluation comes with a copy of your manuscript in Word, with notes anchored to the lines they discuss. They point out what works and what doesn’t, and leave the rewriting to you.
- A separate copy; your file is untouched
- Notes on the page, not in a separate report
- Open it in Word or Google Docs
In the morning there was a letter on the kitchen table, sealed in yellow wax that smelled of clover. The orchard was mine, it said, and the hives, and the debt that came with both. It did not say what the debt was.
Lord Ashgrave’s men came before noon. They stood at the gate and would not cross it, which told me more than the letter had.
Comment · Familiar
The debt is the hook. Naming it here, then refusing to explain it, does more than any summary could. Keep it.
Comment · Familiar
The men at the gate say more than the letter. Consider letting their refusal carry the reveal, and trimming the line that explains it.
Proofreading and consistency
Fixes you approve, back in your file as tracked changes.
Proofreading catches grammar, spelling and punctuation. Consistency catches a name spelled two ways, a character whose eyes change color, or a hyphen that comes and goes. Accept a fix, reject it, or leave it as a comment, then download a new DOCX with your choices as tracked changes.
- House styles built on Chicago, AP, MLA or APA, with your own preferred terms
- Character names and invented words from your continuity sheet are never flagged as misspellings
- Line edits for reading level, action density and clichés
Consistency · 2 credits
House style: ChicagoProofreading · 1 credit
Tracked changesLord AshgravesAshgrave’s men came before noon. They stood at the gate and would’ntwould not cross it.
Downloaded as a new DOCX. The original stays as it was.
For publishers and agents
A first read on every submission.
Open a submission and run an evaluation or AI detection from its review page. Your reviewers score it on the same page, and an editor still makes every call.
- AI detection splits text into human-written, AI-assisted and AI-generated, with a confidence
- Evaluations, story beats and line edits on any submission
- Reviewer scores and notes on the same review page
Ninefold Press · fall submissions
The Moth Orchard
Delphine Arkwright · via Larkspur & HaleAI detection · 1 credit
HumanHigh confidenceHow a manuscript analysis works
Upload the manuscript
Add a .docx, .pdf, .rtf or .txt file. Basic analysis runs straight away, for free.
Choose what to run
Run one analysis, or Analyze Everything for the full set at 20% off.
Read the results
Scores, assessments and issue lists appear on the book as each analysis finishes, with a commented copy for Word files.
Take the fixes back
Approve proofreading and consistency fixes, then download your DOCX with them as tracked changes.
Every analysis, priced per run
Every plan includes credits each month, and extra credits are $5 each. Run only what the manuscript needs.
Analyze Everything runs the evaluation, story beats, line edits, proofreading, consistency, n-gram, style and AI detection together for 12 credits ($60) instead of 15.
Manuscript analysis FAQ
Works with the rest of Familiar
An evaluation is the first read. These pick up where it leaves off.
Run it on your own manuscript
Upload a manuscript and get its basic analysis free. Run an evaluation when you’re ready.