(Click HERE to access the post that announced the return of story coaching services to Storyfix, which includes a needs-analysis along with an overview of both levels; the post below shows pricing and scope of each coaching level, with instructions on how to get started.)

Programs and pricing:

1. The Core Premise Analysis – $195; includes:
   1. An up-front Writer’s Guide to Premise PDF primer that defines the terms used, explains and rationalizes the questions you’ll soon confront, and generally evolves and empowers your responses to the Questionnaire you’ll use to submit your premise for analysis. It’s a Cliff’s Notes tool for this program, defining terms and laying out the criteria used to vet your answers, a 101-level guide to everything you need to know about what makes a premise work, beginning with that it is, and isn’t.
   2. A Premise Questionnaire, which is a guided way to describe and submit your premise, along with a short synopsis of your entire story (50 words max.), broken down into elements.
   3. You may also submit any single scene from your novel (10 pages max). This checks off the “narrative voice” box among the several other criteria for effectiveness that are required of a story that works.
   4. You’re invited to respond, clarify and revise, based on the feedback you’ll receive, or ask questions from that context. (Further iterations, if requested, can be negotiated from there.)
   5. You have the opportunity (optional, with additional fee) to add as many manuscript pages as you’d like me to read (beyond the scene already covered within the scope of the base program). For example, you may want a “first quartile” analysis, up through the First Plot Point – as many as 100 pages, give or take – which is a valuable window into how your story has been setup and thrust into motion. Extra pages are read at a prorated rate of $25 per 1000 words, up to 25K words (in addition to the $195 program fee).
   6. Delivery turnaround of two weeks (unless I notify you up front of a backlog that could delay beyond that period).
   7. “What’s next” ideas and recommendations, relative to revision, further resources and even marketing (queries, submissions, strategies, etc.).

2. The Full Manuscript read/review – $1950 for manuscripts of 75K to 90K words; prorated for shorter or longer manuscripts (contact me for quote, which will pro-rate the base rate). 
   1. Includes 50 pages of line-level copy editing (to clarify any trends or issues that need addressing within the entire manuscript; this is not a copy-editing service, per se).
   2. Feedback/commentary imparted directly onto the manuscript pages themselves (in red type).
   3. A summary Coaching Document that includes peripheral issues such as alternative creative strategies and other relevant issues, including market- specific input. (This is a fixed-cost element of the deliverable service, and thus supports the fixed price for 75K word projects vs 90K word projects… both involve the same level of analysis and feedback.)
   4. A reasonable back-and-forth exchange to clarify the feedback and explore your response to it.
   5. Delivery window of six-weeks from receipt of manuscript (if I need more, based on backlog, we can discuss a reasonable timeline).
   6. If a specific learning topic is shown to be in need of focus, I will provide you with one or more of my books (ebook version), depending on which title deals with the necessary tutoring.
   7. You have the option of completing a Premise Questionnaire and receiving that feedback before submitting the full manuscript. This may allow you the opportunity to revise the story before submission, based on feedback received.*

 To get started, or if you have questions…

… email me at storyfixer@gmail.com (Larry Brooks). Or use that email address as payee via Paypal to submit payment. All funds should be submitted up front. Refunds are happily provided if you request cancellation before I’ve started the read.*

Other legal stuff: provider is not guaranteeing any specific outcome directly or indirectly attributed to this process. Great novels and screenplays can go unnoticed, and bad stories get published all the time… our goal is to give your story the strongest legs possible to run a competitive race in the commercial marketplace.

I wish I could guarantee your complete satisfaction. Truth is, some writers opt-in to get their book affirmed. They aren’t open to criticism or being told that something is in need of further work, or they don’t agree to the specificity of that need within my feedback. That is not grounds for a refund (any more than you’d demand a refund from a doctor who has diagnosed you with something… serious). The scope of work here is me reading the book carefully, applying a set of specific criteria to multiple facets of the storytelling and reading experience within a qualitative analysis and, if possible, offer creative solutions and alternatives for the writer to consider.

The base fee for the Full Manuscript Analysis does not not include a second round read/analysis.Reading and analysis of a revision of a full manuscript will be treated (and billed) as a new project. It takes as long to read and evaluate a rewrite as it did the first time through.