A full editorial read of your novel. Every claim checked against your own pages.
What the book is doing structurally, every continuity, timeline and repetition defect located to the line, where the prose says the same thing twice, and where it sits in the market. One pass, the whole manuscript. Every passage we quote back to you is mechanically re-located in your text before the report is printed.
Not sure yet? Send three chapters and we’ll read them free. Real findings on your own pages, no card.
The problem
Everyone will help you write a novel. Almost no one will read one properly.
The tools market spent its money on generation: drafting apps, co-writers, story bibles that feed prose machines. Assessment got nothing. So the questions that actually decide whether a book works — does the middle sag, does chapter 22 contradict chapter 4, would a stranger keep going — still get answered by you, at midnight, about your own book, which is the one book you cannot read cold.
Automated manuscript reports exist, and the cheap ones have a documented problem: they invent findings. A leading tool has been caught attributing actions to the wrong character. A report you have to fact-check yourself is worse than no report.
The reliable alternative is a human developmental editor: $1,200–$4,500 per manuscript at 2026 EFA and Reedsy rates, with a turnaround measured in weeks. Excellent work, priced for once per book rather than for every revision pass.
The report
It reads in one sitting, and it argues.
The editorial letter
Three to five things that matter, named and prioritised, with the order to work in. Written after everything else, so it can be specific.
The shape of the book
Pacing across chapters, who carries which stretch, characters who leave and come back cold, late arrivals asked to carry an ending, where your setups cluster against where they pay off.
What to fix
Continuity, timeline, promises made and not paid, repeated phrasing, contradicted facts. Each one cites chapter and line, quotes the passage, and takes a position rather than listing both readings.
Where the prose repeats itself
Not repeated sentences — repeated content. The same fact, world-rule or beat delivered twice in different words, which no search can find and which makes a reader feel told twice without knowing why.
Where it sits, and the verdict
Genre placement, comparable titles with the axis each actually shares, the hook as a stranger would state it, and one recommendation — from champion to decline — resolved from the findings, printed with the counts that produced it.
How it works
Order, read, verify. Seventy-two hours.
Tell us about the book
A short intake: genre, point of view, register, comparable titles, your main characters, and any deliberate motifs you do not want flagged as repetition. Those answers calibrate the read to your book rather than a generic one. A motif you declare is recorded as deliberate, not reported as a defect.
The whole manuscript, read twice
Your book is compiled into a structured model — chapters, scenes, characters, promises, timeline, claims, repeated phrasing — and read chapter by chapter for what happens and how it lands. Judgment calls (is this a motif or a crutch? a callback or drift?) go to an editorial adjudication pass.
Every quotation verified before printing
Each passage the report quotes is mechanically re-located in your manuscript before the document is assembled. Anything that cannot be found is demoted out of the report. Nothing above the appendix rests on a quotation we cannot show you in your own file.
What you get
One price, the whole book.
The Threadright Read
$449
Up to 150,000 words. Longer manuscripts by arrangement.
- The report, as a PDF you can print or read on a tablet
- A revision worksheet with every finding, sortable and tickable
- Your manuscript marked up, comments anchored in place
- Two full reads. Revise on the first and send it back
Guarantees
What we will stand behind, and what we will not pretend.
Every quotation is real
If the report quotes your manuscript, that text is in your manuscript, at the chapter and line we cite. This is checked mechanically on every report before it is sent, and anything that cannot be located is demoted out of the findings. If we ever quote you something you did not write, that report is free. It is the one promise we can prove, and it is the exact failure other automated tools have.
Two reads, not one
Every order is two full reads of the manuscript. Revise on the first and send it back. This is deliberately the remedy instead of a money-back clause: the disagreement you are most likely to have with a report like this is “I don’t think that’s a problem”, and the useful answer to that is reading your revision, not a refund.
Judgment is labelled as judgment
Some of this report is decidable and some of it is opinion. A timeline that contradicts itself is a fact. Whether your chapter 12 drags is a reader’s view, and we tell you whose. Findings detected but not adjudicated are marked as such. We will not print a number we cannot stand behind, and we will not dress a judgment as a measurement.
If it is not useful, tell us
Within fourteen days, for any reason you think is a reason. We would rather refund you than argue about whether a finding was technically correct. Your manuscript is never used to train anything and is deleted thirty days after delivery.
FAQ
Reasonable questions.
Is this a human editor?
No, and we will not imply otherwise. It is a structured analysis of your manuscript with an editorial adjudication pass, reviewed by a person before it is sent. A developmental editor will give you something this cannot: a single mind holding your whole book. This gives you something they cannot: every claim checked against your text, on every pass, for a price that makes sense to run again after you revise.
Will it flag my deliberate repetitions?
Not if you tell us about them. The intake asks for motifs and recurring phrases you meant. Anything you declare is recorded as deliberate in the report, with the clearance noted, rather than reported as a defect.
What if my book is a mess?
Then the report will say so, in specific terms, with the chapters named. The recommendation runs from champion to decline and all five outcomes are reachable. A service that always finds your book promising is writing blurbs.
Can I use it mid-draft?
Yes, and it is built for that. Every order is two full reads rather than one, because structural and pacing findings are most useful while you can still act on them, and the second read is where you find out whether the revision worked.
What formats do you take?
Word (.docx) or Markdown (.md). Chapters marked with headings. If your file is unusual, send it and we will tell you before you pay.