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Launched in 2021, the Book Pipeline Workshop reviews unpublished manuscripts, proposals, synopses, and queries, helping authors identify key issues early on in their writing process with an experienced team of editors.

Fiction

  • First Impressions - $65
    • In-document comments on your first 2,000 words. This service is aimed toward writers with unpolished drafts who are looking for initial reactions and feedback.
    • Estimated turnaround: 5-8 business days
  • Full Review - $175
    • A broad analysis of the first 5,000 words (appx.) and a 1-3 page full story synopsis. For short stories, submit the complete story or up to the first 5,000 words.
    • Optional Query and/or Synopsis evaluation, including in-document edits (add on during registration).
    • Consideration for circulation to Book Pipeline's network of lit agents and publishers (if editor recommends material).
    • Estimated turnaround: 5-12 business days

Nonfiction

  • First Impressions - $65
    • In-document comments on your first 2,000 words. This service is aimed toward writers with unpolished drafts who are looking for initial reactions and feedback.
    • Estimated turnaround: 5-8 business days
  • Full Review - $295
    • A broad analysis of your full nonfiction proposal.
    • Consideration for circulation to Book Pipeline's network of lit agents and publishers (if editor recommends material).
    • Estimated turnaround: 5-12 business days

Query Letter - $75

In-document edits on your 1 page query letter, as well as a 1 paragraph summary of the editor's feedback.

Estimated turnaround: 5-8 business days

Synopsis - $75

In-document edits on your full story synopsis (fiction & memoir).

Estimated turnaround: 5-8 business days

Need a specific type of review not listed here? Email our development team to request.

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2025 Adaptation Contest

Early Deadline: May 20, 2025

Seeking published books, graphic novels, and short stories for film and TV adaptation. Winner and runner-up receive extensive development with execs and circulation to producers.

2025 Unpublished Contest

Early Deadline: May 22, 2025

Reviewing unpublished manuscripts across multiple categories of fiction and nonfiction. Select publishers and literary agents get first look at the winners and runners-up.

Latest Success Stories

Nonfiction Finalist "Ditch Your Sh*T" Author Signed

May 6, 2025

Unpublished finalist (Nonfiction) Kate Evans was introduced by Pipeline to agent Cindy Bullard of Birch Literary in 2023, who soon after signed her. Ditch Your Sh*t!: How to Declutter the Crap Out of Your Life and Home is slated for publication in October 2025 through Turner Books.

Unpublished Winner "The Woman in the Waves" Released

April 10, 2025

The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker, winner of the 2022 Unpublished season (Mystery/Thriller), released March 2025 from Hawkeye.

UTA Signs Finalist Michelle Lerner, "Ring" Published

January 28, 2025

Michelle Lerner signed with Veronica Goldstein of UTA (formerly Fletcher & Co) after placing as a finalist in the 2020 Unpublished Outsider category with her experimental novel Ring. The book released in January 2025. Read her interview on Pipeline Artists.

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