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Revision and Critiquing Services:
This service is for authors who feel they need some extra support before submitting to editors, agents and publishers. It is not required of authors who have been accepted for publication at Wyvern.
-Short Stories with word counts from 1,200 – 5,000 words……..… £25
-Flash Fiction (this includes micro fiction and short stories that fall under the 1,200 word count) ……………………………............…£15
-First three chapters of a novel with complete synopsis review…....£75 -Complete novel (55,000-90,000 words) with synopsis review....£350
(for novels outside this range, please e-mail wyvernpublications@googlemail.com for a quote)
-Critique with short story competition entry *special* ……….….....…£10 (please note that this includes the short story competition entry fee and the chance to win £100 and publication. Stories must be from 1,200 – 1,600 words in length and follow the entry guidelines as found on the entry form. Entry forms must be completed with story submission and critique is returned after all entries are judged.)
The complete novel critiques are returned within three months of submission while all other critiques are returned within one month of submission.
The *special* is returned when the results of the short story competition are posted (between one and three months after closing date).
What does the critique include?
Critiques include structural review, presentation, grammatical revision, and a hard look at plot, technique and focus of the story. For synopsis review, editors look at the core of the plot, presentation, and detailed feedback on what is needed to get agent’s attention.
Please e-mail wyvernpublications@googlemail.com before posting any work so we have time to assign an editor. The work will need to be posted with appropriate payment (cheque or paypal) to Wyvern Publications, 29 Nash Close, Lawford, Essex, CO11 2LE and have a return stamped envelope that the work can be returned in. Please make cheques payable to Wyvern Publications.
For overseas writers, please e-mail for special arrangement.
Our Freelance Editors:
 Stephanie has been the North West Regional Co-ordinator for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators for the past five years. Setting up local critique groups in both Manchester and Chester as well as organising events. Stephanie has edited and advised members of the SCBWI on their novels, providing editorial feedback that has been used by some now published and award winning writers. A writer of young adult fiction under the pen name Boo Irwin, Stephanie won the Manchester Children’s Pitching Competition in 2010, the SCBWI Slushpile Challenge for 9 – 12 fiction in 2011 and has had several short stories published in anthologies by Wyvern Publications, Bridge House and Rebel Books. Stephanie was also long listed for the Brit Unpublished Writers Awards in 2010 and has received praise from a top Editor at Macmillan publishing for her draft novel Echo’s Curse.
 Tricia is an experienced published author and poet. Her first novel, Paddytum, was published in 2010, and was selected by bestselling novelist and creative writing guru Paul Magrs as one of his Top Ten new novels of that year, calling it a gentle, funny and life-affirming novel. Tricia has won prizes for her poetry and short stories, and is a longstanding member and moderator on the popular international collaborative fiction site, Protagonize.com, where she writes as Tasha Noble and is a highly respected mentor and advisor to other writers. Tricia has a long background in nursing, and has two teenage children, who love reading as much as she does herself. Nowadays, when not writing and editing, she works for a children’s charity.
Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall national creative writing competition in 2009 and the Wyvern Publications Flash Fiction Competitions in 2010 and 2011. Skellig author David Almond has also given Kirsty excellent feedback on her work and her children’s book The Golbin was critiqued very favourably by Louise Jordan in Writers Forum magazine. She has had articles and short stories published in First Edition, Peoples Friend, Ghost Voices, The Weekly News, Wyvern Magazine, Wyvern Publications Mertales and Fangtales anthologies, Whitby Abbey’s Pure Inspiration anthology and Bridge House Publishing’s anthologies Devils, Demons and Werewolves and Voices of Angels. She also has a story appearing in Bridge House’s forthcoming crime anthology. Kirsty was a judge in the Paws ‘n’ Claws Wild Animals Children’s Story competition in 2011, and her paranormal YA novel The Memory of Snow was commended in the Northern Writer’s Awards and shortlisted to the top five of Wyvern’s novel competition in 2011. She also has been published in Vintage Script magazine and All Right Now! Memories of Newcastle in the 70s by Tyne Bridge Publishing. Kirsty has a Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing from the Open University and has recently completed their Children’s Literature module on her way to a BA Hons in Literature.
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