Please note: Because of the current economic situation, we are temporarily withdrawing our promise to publish the top manuscripts. We will continue to promote those manuscripts On Queue to other publishers. We hope to return to publishing manuscripts On Queue shortly.
“The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”
—Raymond Chandler
Why Pay for a Q‑Critique?
Quality Critiques
A fee-based service enables The Queue to engage accomplished editors, including constituent editors from publishing houses. An editor will read every single page of your manuscript and provide a 6–8 page detailed critique plus a telephone consultation. The editor will identify what works, what doesn’t, and how to increase the writing quality and publication potential.
Save Time & Money
Q‑Critiques help some authors avoid spending time and money on “full” editing, marketing and submissions of premature manuscripts.
Access to Publishers
Publishers around the country recommend us to writers for Q‑Critiques, provide constituent editors and monitor The Queue for talented new writers. Increasingly, publishers are more apt to thoroughly examine manuscripts vetted by an agent or service such as The Queue over unsolicited manuscripts. If your manuscript receives a 1, the advisory board can award a place On Queue, where we help market your manuscript to agents and publishers.
- Think about the time and effort you have invested in your manuscript.
- Consider the 6 million other manuscripts vying for the attention of agents and publishers.
- Then decide: Hope that your work manages to emerge from the multitudes. Or you can ensure your manuscript is agent-ready with a thorough, diagnostic Q‑Critique and give yourself a chance at a place in the On Queue lineup.
How Your Fees Are Dispersed
Approximately 25% of your fees goes to pay the evaluator/editor, 25% goes to site maintenance, 35% to administration and development and 15% to the financial need and merit based Q‑Critique Scholarship fund and to the Queue Editions publication fund. Contributions to the scholarship fund are welcomed and encouraged. See the Submissions page for more details.
“The publication environment is changing and writers must adapt if they want to succeed.”
—Ian Graham Leask, Publisher, Scarletta Press