WritersSide.com - About Us

About Us

Writer's Side, India's first professional manuscript assessment service, is the brainchild of 26 year old Kanishka Gupta, formerly an editor with Siyahi and Platform. He has worked as the head of a men's lifestyle portal. He is particularly interested in strong first-time literary fiction.

At Writer's Side, our team of skilled and proficient readers will give valuable and realistic assessment of manuscripts, both fiction and non-fiction, before they are ready to be submitted to a publishing house in India or agents/publishers in India and overseas.

Our assessment module consists of four aspects:

Manuscript Reading - This is the most basic service provided at Writer's Side. Here, our reader will read the manuscript and provide you feedback on its creative and market potential.

Manuscript Critique - The Manuscript Critiquing service will provide a comprehensive critique of the manuscript. It will give a detailed report on the manuscript in terms of plot, relevance, characterization, narrative technique and marketability.

Manuscript Editing - This is the most comprehensive service provided at Writer's Side. This includes:

1) Proofreading

2) Line Editing

3) Substantive editing

Manuscript Recommendation - Writer's Side works with over 16 UK publishers, most of them famous literary imprints, and 9 top UK agents. The recommendation model works something like this: If our team is certain that a book idea fits an imprint's list then we will recommend it directly to the publisher, whereas if we are not clear about the publishing house we will recommend it to an agent.