SecondRead™

For the person who has to weigh it

You have manuscripts to weigh.

Maybe it's a submission you believe in, but you can't fully vouch for the history without weeks you don't have. Maybe it's a manuscript in your queue that deserves a close read against the record before you commit to it. Maybe it's your own book, and you want to know what a careful reader will find before you send it out.

You know your list, your authors, and your standard. SecondRead gives you the evidence to weigh them, page by page, so the call you make rests on more than a hunch.

We report what holds and what to footnote. We never decide whether a book belongs on your list. That call stays yours.

A second read before you decide.

Under the hood

A fine-tooth comb.

Roughly forty hours of reading and source-checking go into a single novel, because one wrong detail can undo a book. A detective novel whose murderer fires a gun that had not yet been manufactured draws the one-star review, however good the rest is.

We read every page and check every claim against the record, one at a time. We can't promise to catch everything, no read can, but we catch most, and we show our work: every finding cited to its page and traceable back to the record.