Tell Us About Your Book

Three things begin every engagement: this application, your manuscript, and the $50 Gate Scan deposit. Complete the application below and send your manuscript file; submitting carries you straight to the deposit — we confirm receipt, count your pages, and run the Gate first.

Before you begin, read the standards and the full certification. The certification below is the heart of the application: please read each statement and check every box. All boxes must be checked for us to proceed.

Part 1 — About you and your book
Genre

Fiction

Young readers

Nonfiction

Handwritten? We can work with a PDF of a handwritten manuscript — scan or photograph your pages into a PDF and send it right here (the pages just need to be legible). Handwritten work begins with our Digitization service; tell us in the notes below.

Part 2 — Your service

You are never obligated to buy anything further. Digitization, Cover Art Development, and Publisher-Ready Preparation can be added at any point along the path.

Your price, before you pay anything:

Enter your word count above (Part 1) and choose a service, and we will do the math right here.

Part 3 — Your House Rules

Every author has lines a book with their name on it must never cross. Yours become your House Rules profile, and every flagged decision on your book is measured against them. First, the values that matter to you (choose all that apply):

Part 4 — Content certification

I certify that my manuscript:

If your book is a redemption story — a character who starts in the old life and comes to Christ — the full certification (Part 4 of the intake packet, mirrored on our Standards page) also asks where the turn to Christ falls, and certifies that the old life occupies 40% or less of the book, that the sin shown costs the character and is never glorified or graphic, that the repentance is real, and that the book lands on redemption.

Part 5 — Confidentiality, both ways

Your manuscript is yours. We never share, quote, or discuss your book or its contents with anyone outside Honest Edit without your written permission, and your unpublished work is never used to train, demonstrate, or promote our service. In return, our methods, checklists, report formats, and internal materials are confidential to Honest Edit — they are simply the way this house works. The complete text stands in the intake packet and forms part of what you sign.

Submitting sends your application and takes you straight to the $50 Gate deposit — the last step. Applications are reviewed personally; nothing begins until the Gate deposit is paid.

Applied Earlier?

If your application is already in but your deposit didn't finish, it is held safely — nothing runs until the deposit lands. The Pay page is where the deposit lives, along with any balance your report states.

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Prefer to begin with a question? hello@honestedit.net · (707) 702-EDIT (3348).