MANUSCRIPT REVIEW

You finish a draft and you can’t tell any more whether it works. Friends say it’s great. A review tells you what a stranger will find: what to keep, what to fix, in what order, with the evidence quoted from your own pages. Ten working days later you know whether to publish, revise or query, and you haven’t paid an editor to tell you.

Already had a Casover review of this manuscript? A Revised Manuscript Review checks your revised version against the earlier findings.

WHAT IT COSTS

Full Manuscript Review: £395, any manuscript length.
An editorial assessment of your complete manuscript, including its strengths and priorities for revision. Choose this if Casover has not previously reviewed this manuscript, even if you have already revised it or published an earlier version.

Revised Manuscript Review: £145.
For a manuscript substantially revised following an earlier Casover review. Your revised version is assessed against the earlier findings, so you learn which changes work and what still needs attention.

Choose your review and complete the form below. You will be taken through payment and manuscript upload from there. If for any reason the review cannot go ahead, you are refunded in full.

Payment is due in full before the review begins.

October and November 2026 launch offer: book a £395 Full Manuscript Review and receive one AI-assisted proofread of the same book after your revisions, included in the price. Submit the complete files within six months of receiving your review. The proofread covers manuscript text; book formatting and print-layout checking are not included. Explore proofreading and the offer details.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

Your report, as PDFs you keep and a private Notion workspace for 90 days. It is written to be acted on: every finding points to a place in your manuscript, and the revision list is in the order you should tackle it. Every report is checked by a named reviewer before it reaches you.

View a sample manuscript review

Non-fiction example: Author First: AI Assisted

By Steve Castledine, founder of Casover.

The book took approximately a year to develop and underwent successive AI-assisted reviews. It was revised in response to the findings before being uploaded to Amazon KDP.

The complete final review is available below, including its criticisms and recommendations, so you can see what the assessment identified and advised.

This is an internal example, not independent validation. It shows Casover’s review process applied to its founder’s own book.

Read the complete final non-fiction review of Author First: AI Assisted

OPTIONAL FOLLOW-UP

Once you have substantially revised a manuscript Casover has already reviewed, the new version is reviewed against the earlier findings, using the same method as the original review. You learn which changes work, which issues remain and what to tackle next.

Tell us which earlier Casover review applies and briefly explain what has changed. Your enquiry is checked against the earlier review before you receive your secure payment link and manuscript upload link.

CLEAR BOUNDARIES

The editorial review provides an assessment. It does not edit your manuscript or include the work below in that assessment. The October and November 2026 launch offer adds a separate proofread after your revisions. You choose and apply its suggested corrections; the £145 Revised Manuscript Review remains separate.

ENQUIRE ABOUT MANUSCRIPT REVIEW

Tell us what you are writing and what you want the review to help you decide.

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A standalone service

Not sure whether your manuscript is ready? Tell us where it stands. This review is a standalone service, with no obligation to buy further support.