Verla Kay's Critique Service is temporarily closed. (She is moving several states away.) It will reopen by January, 2016.
It's up and running for real!
Here's the way it works. If you write picture books and would like to have one of your books personally critiqued by Verla Kay, send an email to:
verlakay2 (at) aol.com
Be sure to take the spaces out of the email addy and replace the @ symbol for the word (at) before using it!
Put CRITIQUE SERVICE in the subject line of your email. Payment will be via PayPal to this same email addy.
You will email your manuscript to Verla as soon as a confirmation email that your payment has been received has been sent to you by Verla. Within four weeks you will receive by return email a full critique of your manuscript. Your personal, thorough critique will include some or all of the following:
"Overview" comments about your story concerning its appropriateness for today's market and the age of children for which you are writing
Assistance and or comments about the pacing and image possibilities of your story
Line by line editing of the story itself
Assistance with rhyming and rhythm when appropriate
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Prices for personal picture book critiques are:
300 words or less =
$75
301 to 500 words = $100
501 to 750 words = $150
751 to 1000 words = $175
1000 to 2000 words = $225
Word count is for the story and supplemental material only. It does not include your name and/or byline or the title of the story.