Book editorial workspace · 27 September 2026
Your experience.
Your book.
A revised manuscript, a candid editorial assessment, current publishing research, and room for your voice.
The revised manuscript
All thirteen chapters, with comments beside each section.
Open →What changed
The specific edits, the preserved material and the remaining gaps.
Open →Developmental assessment
Purpose, reader promise, strengths, weaknesses and the plan for every chapter.
Open →Reader and market research
Dated sources, findings and limits. Three fitting connections; two to avoid.
Open →Four comparable books
Audiences, promises, opportunities and a small documented review sample.
Open →Questions for Ruth
Add firsthand accounts, clarify the Wave and recover your natural voice.
Open →All book comments
Review, edit, resolve, filter and export notes.
Open →The preserved earlier draft
Read the version before this developmental edit.
Open →A book only Ruth could write
The strongest direction is a grounded account of touch in which the person receiving it has a voice. The revised manuscript gives that idea a clearer shape. Ruth's real memories and language are the next essential ingredient.
Start here
Read the new opening and the Wave chapter. Tell us which ideas feel true to your practice, which words sound unlike you, and what an actual experience would add. A short, ordinary account is more useful than a polished success story.
The reader promise
Understand and describe your experience of touch, ask useful questions, and consider explanations without giving up your own judgment.
Leave a thought here
Use Comment beside any heading throughout this workspace. Select a short passage before clicking to quote it. Questions for Ruth has a place to record stories and answers. Avoid identifying client details in draft notes.