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appraisal Submissions
If you are ready to take the plunge and submit your manuscript for appraisal, please follow the below instructions.
Prepare your Manuscript Package*
Review the Schedule of Fees and arrange payment (all payments are due prior to commencement of the appraisal process)
Submit your Manuscript Package via email to kit@manuscriptagency.com.au
WE WORK WITH…
Fiction for all age groups and in all genres
(including: literary, YA, sci-fi, thrillers, fantasy,
crime, historical, romance, chick lit…)Children’s picture books
Children’s chapter books (fiction and non-fiction)
Middle grade (fiction and non-fiction)
Non-fiction generally (this includes memoir,
self-help, instructional, inspirational etc)Series concepting and development
*Manuscript Package
Manuscript: Please make sure all pages are numbered, use a 12-point readable font, and 1.5 line-spacing. Your manuscript must be one Word file, all chapters must be in order and in the one document.
Author Agreement: Please download the agreement, fill it in, sign it, and send it in with your submission. We cannot commence any service without a signed agreement.
Synopsis**: Please include a 1-page synopsis. (If you need help writing a synopsis, please see our Writing a Synopsis blog.)
Cover letter**: Please include a cover letter, similar to what you would submit to an agent or publisher. (If you need help writing a cover letter, please see our Writing a Cover Letter blog.)
MAA cover letter: Please write a cover letter to The MAA about your reasons for seeking an appraisal, motivations for writing the manuscript, and what you hope to address — we will do our best to respond to queries within this letter (within reason).
**We ask that you submit a cover letter and synopsis so that we can review your submission as a package, considering all relevant content that you would typically submit to a publishing house or agent. We believe these elements are crucial for successful submissions and warrant careful attention. However, we also understand that these documents can be a roadblock for many authors, so if you don’t have these documents ready for submission that’s okay too! While providing feedback on the manuscript itself is our primary objective, we offer commentary on the supplementary documents whenever relevant and dependent on where the narrative is at in its development.
PLEASE NOTE …
General turnaround for all assessments is 4-6 weeks. You will receive an electronic copy of your appraisal report via email.
The MAA does not use AI for any editorial support. All edits are completed by a human editor. We require authors to disclose to The MAA the use of AI within their own work. If the author has used AI to write their narrative, The MAA reserves the right to refuse to work on the manuscript for any purpose.
The MAA does not publish manuscripts and cannot guarantee that an appraisal will secure you a publishing opportunity. It offers a commercial evaluation on content and advice as to how to get the manuscript to a standard that is acceptable to literary agents and publishers.
The author of the work must be at least 18 years of age, or have a parent or guardian’s written approval to submit the manuscript.
All manuscripts must be original works. They must be submitted by the author or authors or with the written permission of the author.
Privacy of the author will be respected and the names of appraisers used by MAA shall remain anonymous at all times to ensure their privacy (this is in order to remain objective as well as to protect the identity of freelancers, many of whom are still working full- or part-time in the industry).
Reports are not to be published without The MAA’s approval, and quotes and/or extracts must not be used out of context. A report may be sent to a publisher or literary agent in its entirety only, accompanying the version of the MS that was reviewed.
The MAA reserves the right to refuse an appraisal of a manuscript.
The manuscript appraisal report is just that: a report. Everything you will need will be found within the pages of the report. We will not mark-up the manuscripts in any way. We will, however, make page references for you so please ensure you retain a copy of the manuscript that you send us (ie without further edits) so you are able to refer back to this copy in relation to the appraisal report.