Editorial help for authors
The book you mean to write, properly made.
Willow Scroll helps authors plan, write, edit and finish their books: honest assessment, careful editing, ghostwriting, and production to a professional standard.
Thirty minutes, no charge and no obligation. Any genre, anywhere in the world.
A free 30-minute consultation
Talk through your book with an editor: where it stands, what it needs, and what to do next.
A free sample edit
Send about the first 1,000 words and see exactly how we would edit them before you commit to anything.
Services
Six services, from first idea to finished files
Take one, or several in sequence. Every job starts with a conversation about what the book is for and who will read it.
Start here
Manuscript assessment
A written report on what works, what does not, and what to do next, for a draft or a detailed outline.
Shape
Structure and tone
Guidance on how the book is organised and how it sounds: chapter plan, pacing, voice, and where the reader gets lost.
Write
Ghostwriting
Your story or expertise, written in your voice from interviews and source material, with your approval at each stage.
Refine
Editing
Line-by-line work on clarity, consistency and flow, with every change visible for you to accept or reject.
Finish
Proofreading
The final check for spelling, punctuation, layout slips and stray errors before the book goes anywhere.
Produce
Book production
Turning a finished text into a book: interior layout, cover design, and files ready for print and e-book.
How it works
Four steps, and a written quote before any paid work begins
1
Tell us about the book
Send a short description and, if you have one, a sample or an outline. A few lines are enough.
2
We talk
A 30-minute call to understand your aims, your readers and your deadline. Free.
3
Sample, plan and quote
A sample edit of about your first 1,000 words, then a written plan: what we will do, how long it takes, what it costs. Free.
4
We do the work
In agreed stages, with your sign-off at each one. Nothing moves on until you are satisfied.
Who we work with
Authors anywhere, writing in any genre
You do not need a finished manuscript, an agent or any experience of publishing. You need a book you want to get right.
First-time authors
With a story to tell and no clear idea of where to begin.
Professionals and experts
Turning what they know into a book that people will read.
Families and memoirists
Recording a life, a family or a business for those who come after.
Novelists
With a draft that needs an experienced outside eye.
Writers on Asia and China
Whose subject needs an editor who knows the ground.
Writers in a second language
Whose English is good and whose book deserves to read naturally.
To be clear
We are not a publisher.
We do not publish books, sell publishing packages or promise publication. We help you make the best book you can.
It stays entirely yours: your text, your rights, and your decision about what happens next, whether that is an agent, a publisher or publishing it yourself.
Tell us about your book
A few lines are enough. We will reply to arrange your free consultation.
