FREE PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT REVIEW
GET A FREE OUTSIDE VIEW OF YOUR FIRST CHAPTER
Three chapters or a full draft — paste up to 5,000 words and find out what your opening is actually doing to a reader who has never seen it.
Your opening chapter is doing more work than any other part of the book, and it's the part you've read so many times you can no longer see it.
Send it over. You'll get back what it appears to be about, who it reads as being for, the strongest thing in it, and the exact point where attention starts to slip.
How this works
Tell us where to send it
Your email address, and nothing else. No card, no account, no password to invent.
Open your private link
It arrives in about thirty seconds. The link is yours to keep and come back to — you do not have to finish in one sitting.
Do the thing
Ten minutes or so. You keep whatever it produces, whether or not you go any further.
Your words stay yours. Full copyright, and passed through AI to be read; we opt out of AI training whenever we can.
You'll get back, in plain English:
- what your opening appears to be about to somebody who wasn't there when you wrote it
- who it reads as being for
- the strongest thing in it, named - so you stop cutting the wrong bits
- the exact place a reader starts to drift, and why
- three revision priorities, in order, and the one to start with
This is a sample. Here's the full version.
This reads up to 5,000 words. Detailed Editorial Feedback reads the whole manuscript at once — which is the only way structural problems become visible, because a sag in the middle is invisible in the first three chapters.
What Your Book Pro is
Your Book Pro is a British book-writing platform. You bring a book — an idea, a folder of notes, half a draft, or a finished manuscript written somewhere else — and it gives you the editorial process a publisher would run: a plan, structured feedback, a simulated beta read, a line edit, a proofread, a cover, a blurb and a print-ready file. You can type it, upload it or speak it. The tools sit in one place and work on the same manuscript, so the feedback compounds instead of arriving as twelve disconnected opinions.
Your draft is not training data
I'll say that plainly, because it's the first thing every writer asks and most tools answer it in a footnote.
Your manuscript is stored privately, your result link is signed and private, and nothing you send is used to market anything to anyone or to train anything.
And the snapshot doesn't rewrite you. It tells you what's landing and what isn't. What you do about it is your job, and it should be.
Why I built this
I'm Tom Collins. I built Your Book Pro after watching too many people carry a book around for thirty years without ever starting it.
Not one of them was short of material. What they were short of was somebody sitting beside them asking the right question at the right moment - which is what a good editor does, and what almost nobody can afford at the beginning.
So I built the beginning. It's free, because the beginning is where people give up.
Questions
- Is this a real edit?
- No, and I won't pretend otherwise. It's a fast, AI-assisted read of your opening - the kind of first reaction you'd get from a sharp reader, not a full editorial assessment or a proofread. It's genuinely useful and it's genuinely not a human edit.
- Will it try to change my voice?
- It doesn't rewrite anything. It describes what it sees. Every decision after that is yours.
- Why only 5,000 words?
- Because your opening decides whether anybody reads the rest, and because a free tool that reads 90,000 words would either be slow, expensive or lying. Five thousand words is enough to see what a book is doing.
- What if it says something I don't like?
- Then read it twice and decide. Feedback you agree with immediately usually wasn't worth much. Feedback you resist is worth sitting with for a day.
GET A FREE OUTSIDE VIEW OF YOUR FIRST CHAPTER
Three chapters or a full draft — paste up to 5,000 words and find out what your opening is actually doing to a reader who has never seen it.