Private Reviews
Some drafts need a careful reader before they need a full edit.
Tina R. Selby offers private written reviews for short stories, essays, flash pieces, memoir fragments, and hybrid prose. These services are designed for writers who want thoughtful feedback on what is working, where the piece may lose force or clarity, and what revision choices may help the work move forward.
Feedback is private, written, and focused on the piece as a whole. These reviews are not line edits, copyedits, proofreading services, publication guarantees, or promises of acceptance.
How Tina Reads
Tina reads for what is alive on the page first: voice, image, emotional movement, tension, rhythm, and the places where the piece seems to know more than it has said yet.
Feedback is careful, direct, and intended to help the writer see the work more clearly without flattening its strangeness, intimacy, humor, or risk.
Available review options are listed below.
First Reader Letter
$35.00
Limit 1 per order
A careful first response for one short story, essay, flash piece, memoir fragment, or hybrid prose work up to 1,500 words. Tina will send a private reader letter focused on what is working, where the piece loses clarity or force, and what revision questions may help it move forward.
Delivery: Written feedback by email within 5 to 7 business days after the piece is received.
Not sure what kind of feedback you’ll receive?
Read a fictional sample draft and Tina’s private First Reader Letter response.
Private Story & Essay Review
$65.00
Limit 1 per order
A deeper craft-focused review for one short story, essay, flash piece, memoir fragment, or hybrid prose work up to 2,500 words. Tina will provide written feedback on voice, structure, emotional clarity, pacing, tension, image, ending, and revision possibilities.
Delivery: Written feedback by email within 7 to 10 business days after the piece is received.
Have a draft that feels close, but not clear yet?
This review is for pieces with real promise that need a careful reader to help name what is working, what is hiding, and what may need to change.
Submission Readiness Review
$85.00
Limit 1 per order
A submission-focused review for one polished short story, essay, flash piece, memoir fragment, or hybrid prose work up to 2,500 words. Tina will read for readiness, clarity, force, genre fit, and final revision choices, and include a brief cover note suggestion.
Delivery: Written feedback by email within 7 to 10 business days after the piece is received.
Not sure whether the piece is ready to leave your hands?
This review is for writers preparing to submit who want a final private response before sending the work to editors or magazines.