Are you struggling to edit your novel confidently?
We have forty-plus years of experience in the Australian publishing industry and provide honest and informed critiques and a clear direction for the way forward. We offer manuscript appraisals on all fiction, non-fiction and poetry manuscripts for new and emerging writers.
Our manuscript appraisals provide you with the self-editing tools you need:
– an overall snapshot of the strengths and weaknesses of your manuscript
– detailed analysis of theme, plot and characterisation
– broad structural editing advice
– evaluation of voice and style
– actionable steps for self-editing and revising
Catherine Bateson is an award-winning poet and novelist for children and young adults. Her novels have twice won the Children’s Book Council of Australia, Book of the Year, Younger Readers and been awarded Honour book awards in this category and the Young Adult category. She has also won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Younger Readers and been shortlisted for other awards throughout her writing career. Catherine teaches Professional Writing and Editing at TAFE.
‘I’m always delighted when writers seize revision opportunities and use them to create deeper and richer characterisation, greater thematic coherence and more elegant writing. It’s a privilege seeing the results of hard work!’
Catherine's the ideal editor: sympathetic and intelligent, with an eye for both large structure and small detail. I've found her feedback reliably insightful and practical, and appreciate how she'll not only identify the weaknesses in a manuscript but suggest imaginative ways to overcome them. She's a genuine pleasure to work with.
Michael Debenham, Ampersand Prize-winning author with 'Drowning for Beginners', Hardie Grant Children's Publishing, 2006
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Leonie Tyle has worked in the publishing industry for thirty years. She began with JamRoll Press and became the Children’s and Young Adult Book publisher with the University of Queensland Press. She then established WoolShed Press, an imprint of Random House. Her authors have won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, State Premier’s Awards and the coveted Prime Minister’s prize.
‘Tyle & Bateson is my response to the challenges presented to authors and publishers by epublishing. This is a time of unprecedented opportunities for authors and our aim is to help them produce elegant, innovative work of quality.’
Services and Pricing:
| Taster Manuscript Appraisal (of up to 3000 words) | $190 |
| Manuscripts up to 50,000 words | $650 |
| Manuscripts 50,000 – 80,000 words | $800 |
| Manuscripts 80,000 – 120,000 words | $900 |
| Manuscripts 120,000 – 170,000 words | $1200 |
| Manuscripts 170,000 – 220,000 words | $1500 |
| Manuscripts 220,000 – 270,000 words | $1750 |
| Mentoring – contact us for a personalised quote Limited availability |
For poetry, including verse novels, and picture book manuscripts, please approach us for a quote.