We give you more time.
Getting a manuscript from first draft to finished work can be more taxing than writing the orginal draft. Getting it right can involve lots of work - and lots of time. Because we keep our overheads low, we can afford to attract and keep the very best writer-editors in the business.

And because we pay more, we insist that they do more. We won't be satisfied until you are.

We use the best consultants.
All our consultants are writers themselves. That means they don't just know what's wrong with a manuscript, they know what needs to be done to put it right. As well as being first rate novelists, our consultants usually also have a back-

ground in creative writing and / or editorial work. We are rigorous in selecting our consultants - and even then we monitor every client-consultant interaction to make sure that clients are left completely satisfied. See Editors for more.

We have excellent links with the best agents in town.
We have strong contacts with some of London's leading agents, including specialists in both adults and childrens fiction. If we like your book enough to recommend it, we can guarantee that we will get it read with attention by some of the best literary agents in London. If your book is good enough, it will get taken on.

We are always market-aware.
We know that your ultimate aim is to get published if at all possible. Most of our effort (and yours) should be directed to making your book as good as it can possibly be. But market considerations come into it too, and we never lose sight of these. As writers ourselves, we are in an excellent position to give you a steer on what works, what doesn't.

We know that feedback means dialogue.
Most consultancies collect a fee, send you a report, and that's it. No interaction. No dialogue. That means that the most valuable part of any editorial process has been left out altogether. We refuse to work like that and put discussion and debate at the heart of everything we do. In our view, any other way of working is just ridiculous.

We are always kind.
It is intimidating showing your work to a stranger. We know this, and will always give you respect and honesty. We are always careful to bring out the good points of a piece, and will be sensitive to your concerns.