Process and Requirements

1. First, you must complete the 2^nd Draft information and payment process at WritersDigestShop.com. You will have to select the level of service you need (Expert or Premium), indicate what genre or category your work is, and also specify how many pages you want reviewed.
2. You will receive an automatic confirmation of your order with instructions on how to submit your manuscript to us via e-mail. (Sorry, but we cannot accept hard copies.)
3. Our staff will be in touch within 3 days about the assignment of your project to a professional critiquer.
4. After a professional critiquer is assigned, they will e-mail you to introduce themselves, and estimate a timeframe for turnaround.
5. The critiquer will e-mail you an editorial review of your manuscript in an attachment. If you submitted your manuscript as a Word or RTF document, they will also return this with any related mark-up or in-text comments.

Formatting Requirements

All documents must be submitted electronically in ONE of the following formats:

1. Word document (.doc or .docx)
2. Rich Text File (.rtf)

All documents must adhere to the professional manuscript formatting standards, which are:

1. 8.5 x 11 page size
2. Double-spacing throughout
3. 1-inch margins on top and bottom
4. 1.25-inch margins on left and right sides
5. Arial, Courier, or Times font
6. 12-point font size

If your manuscript does not meet these formatting requirements, we will either return the document to you for correction, or we will apply these settings ourselves when possible, and only critique the number of pages you have paid for.