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NOVEL ADVENTURE EDITORIAL offers a range of options so that you can choose what is right for you.

Go beyond traditional feedback with our FEMINIST ALCHEMY packages that not only refine your manuscript but incorporate insightful critique grounded in gender and intersectional feminist theories so that your novel both captivates and inspires. Or benefit from constructive feedback that enhances your storytelling prowess and technical writing skills so that your novel reaches its fullest potential with our NURTURING NARRATIVE packages. Or choose to tailor your developmental edit so that you can focus on what really matters to you with our LITERARY EXPLORER package.

We start with a free initial consultation and sample edit. Based on this initial consultation and sample edit, we provide a quote for the project fee. This is the best way to tailor the depth of the edit to the needs of the manuscript and your goals as the author.

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    Feminist Alchemy Packages

    Go beyond traditional feedback with a full developmental edit or manuscript assessment that includes detailed tailored feminist analysis. Whether you’re taking the first steps on your feminist journey or you’re already a committed feminist, these packages are ideal for writers who want to make s difference in the world. Our experience and expertise in feminist theory and literary practice adds another level to our developmental edits by blending writing craft with an intersectional feminist perspective because we want your story to change the world. Incorporating detailed gender and feminist perspectives to ensure every aspect of your story aligns with your feminist values will elevate your narrative to reflect a broad spectrum of experiences and resonate with contemporary readerships so that your story can truly inspire.

    Includes: initial consultation, editorial report, notes in the manuscript pages (optional), follow-up consultation (optional).

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    Narrative Nurturing Packages

    Benefit from constructive feedback that enhances your storytelling prowess and brings your narrative to its fullest potential with a full developmental edit or manuscript assessment. These packages are ideal for writers who have completed their first draft and is ready to take their manuscript to the next level. The feedback you will receive is informed by informed by writing craft theory and focuses on a range of technical elements, so that you cay take your story to the next level. Nurture your narrative to ensure all the elements of your story cohere and align seamlessly, resulting in a compelling and captivating read as you achieve your vision for your manuscript.

    Includes: initial consultation, editorial report, notes and edits in the manuscript pages (optional), follow-up consultation (optional).

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    Literary Explorer Package

    Your story is unique and so is our developmental editing process. Our Literary Explorer Bespoke service provides the opportunity for a customized edit or analysis that addresses your specific needs and aspirations. Whether it's a deep dive into character motivations or a focused critique on thematic elements, this service is tailored exclusively for you and your manuscript. Alternatively, you might want to expand your edit by integrating an equal expressions language assessment with one of our other packages. With the Literary Explorer package, you decide.

    Includes: Initial consultation, customized edit, follow-up consultation (optional).

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    Equal Expression Language Assessment

    Our Equal Express on assessment offers guidance on aligning your manuscript with contemporary sensitivities and inclusivity by analyzing language and tropes. Be inclusive in your writing so that you can immerse your readers in a narrative that speaks to their hearts and minds.

    Conscious language can elevate your novel because, as Bennett and Royle, highlight, “[t]he way you think what you think – about society, ethics, politics, justice, about poverty and wealth… about human rights, race, religion and ethnicity, unemployment and the minimum wage, sexuality and gender… is a matter of language. You make up your mind about these and a host of other questions in and through the words you and others use to describe them… the way that people think about their world is produced and altered in and through language” (Bennett and Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory).

    Includes: initial consultation call, editorial report, follow-up consultation call.

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    Workshops & Presentations

    Discover the profound impact literary theory can have on your craft, by taking your novel adventure off the page with our live workshops and presentations. Designed to empower and illuminate, our workshops and presentations cater to diverse interests, making them perfect for writing groups or classes aiming to broaden their writer's toolkit. Whether you're seeking a comprehensive introduction or diving deep into a specific theory or thematic topic that sparks your curiosity, our approach is research-based, and passionately committed to fostering a love for learning, because learning should be empowering, positive, and above all, inspiring.


MEET YOUR EDITOR

Sorcha Gunne is a dedicated developmental editor specializing in fiction. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies, from Warwick University in the UK, a MA in Narrative and Modernity and a BA in English Literature and Anthropology, both from Maynooth University in Ireland. After a decade of dissecting novels, short stories, and poems with a fine tooth comb, she set up Novel Adventure Editorial to help aspiring writers who want to write impactful and inspiring novels to navigate the path to publication through personalized guidance and support.

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy — ‘to stand outside’ — comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away
— bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: Dancing with words