The
Mirror Read
Your first ten pages are doing more work than you think.
The Mirror Read is a structured editorial report on your novel's opening — written by a reader who doesn't know what you meant to do.
Most experienced novelists know something is off in their opening pages. The sentences are clean. The prose is theirs. But something isn't landing — and they can't see it, because they're too close to it.
That's what The Mirror Read is for.
You send me your first ten pages. I read them as a reader, not a collaborator. No prior knowledge of your vision, your outline, or your intentions. Then I deliver a structured editorial report — what's working, what's creating friction, what I needed and didn't get, and where my attention went. Not a line edit. A diagnostic.
The report covers:
First impression and immediate orientation (or disorientation)
What questions the pages raised — and whether those are the right questions
Where attention drifted and why
What the opening is signaling about the kind of book this is
Specific moments that earned trust or broke it
The details:
$225 — PDF report, delivered within 5 business days
$325 — includes a 30-minute Zoom to talk through the findings
Who this is for: Novelists who have been working at their craft long enough to know the difference between a writing problem and a seeing problem.
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