First Three Chapters Critique

Your opening chapters carry enormous weight. They introduce your voice, your characters, your world — and decide whether a reader keeps turning the pages. This service offers a clear, honest, and encouraging critique of your first three chapters, designed to help you understand what’s working, what may be holding your opening back, and how to strengthen it with confidence.

This critique is coaching-led, not prescriptive. I don’t rewrite your work or impose my version of your story. Instead, I help you see your own writing more clearly, so you can make purposeful, informed decisions as the author.

What You’ll Receive:

• Detailed margin notes directly on your manuscript
• A 5–7 page editorial report
• A personalised next-steps action list
• A discount should you choose to continue to a full manuscript critique

This service focuses specifically on:

• Your hook and opening impact
• Voice and tone
• Reader engagement and momentum

The central question guiding this critique is:
Would a reader want to keep turning the pages — and why?

What This Service Is (and Isn’t)

• A structural, reader-focused critique
• Honest, kind, and coaching-led
• Ideal for early-stage assessment
• Strengths-based as well as constructive
• Not a line edit
• Not a full developmental edit
• No rewriting of your work

This critique is especially suited to:

• First-time writers
• Writers who feel stuck or uncertain
• Writers who suspect their opening isn’t quite landing

Turnaround Time

Once your purchase is complete, I’ll send you an email requesting your chapters and explaining the process in more detail. Your critique will be delivered within ten days of receiving your manuscript.

You can choose between two options at checkout:

Written Feedback Only – €100
Includes full margin notes, editorial report, and next-steps plan.

Written Feedback + Follow-Up Call – €140
Includes everything above plus a 30–45 minute coaching call to talk through your feedback, answer questions, and clarify your next steps.

Select your preferred option before adding to cart.

If you’re standing at the beginning of your book wondering whether your opening truly does what you want it to do, this is a calm, supportive place to start