Manuscript Mining
Find what you’ve already written
Our book manuscript review and evaluation covers everything you've written and provides professional feedback on material you may have forgotten, cut, overlooke, or buried in older versions.
Discover what's already in your story
Manuscript Evaluation for Authors Who Already Wrote the Book.
Get manuscript review, manuscript feedback, and practical help with your book before you rewrite what you may have already written.
Send us your chapters, drafts, notes, rewrites, deleted scenes, and discarded material. We mine the archive for strong lines, scenes, characters, ideas, and possibilities worth another look.
We make the recommendation.
You make the decision.
Our Services
Practical Manuscript Help for Real Writers
Years of drafts, rewrites, notes, and abandoned chapters? Don’t throw them away. Mine them.
Quote & One-Liner Mining
Your best lines in one place
We collect strong dialogue, chapter openers, closers, tags, jokes, and memorable phrases.
Story / Scene Mining
Scenes that deserve more
We identify anecdotes, unfinished scenes, characters, and story possibilities that may deserve further development.
Inventory & Reconstruction
Organize the mess
We organize versions, duplicates, missing pieces, and the strongest usable material into a clearer inventory.
Editorial Services
Optional
For clients who want help integrating recovered material, improving flow, and strengthening the manuscript.
A Simple Process
From a pile of writing to a clearer path forward.
1
Upload Your Material
Put everything in one folder, ZIP it if needed, and upload it through our secure form.
2
We Analyze & Mine
We review the material and identify potentially valuable scenes, ideas, lines, characters, and patterns.
3
You Get a Report
You receive an organized report with findings and practical recommendations.
4
You Decide
Use what you want. Your story. Your call.
“It’s like finding buried treasure in my own writing.”— Brian Keith Finn
Author & Novelist
Writers have more material than they realize.
We help you find it.
We help you find it.
Pricing
Choose How Deep We Mine
Built for real manuscript archives — from one unruly project to years of accumulated material.
Core Mine
$199
For writers who want the strongest material surfaced and organized.
- Archive review
- Scene, character & idea recovery
- Quote and one-liner highlights
- Organized findings report
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Deep Mine
$399
For larger archives, multiple drafts, and reconstruction work.
- Everything in Core Mine
- Version and duplicate inventory
- Reconstruction roadmap
- Priority findings: Excellent / Very Good / Consider
Editorial Mine
$599
For writers who want mining plus hands-on editorial guidance.
- Everything in Deep Mine
- Editorial integration guidance
- Flow and structure recommendations
- Development notes for recovered material
Large archives — up to 700,000 words — can be handled depending on file type and project scope.
Get Started
Send the mess.
Messy is fine. That’s what Manuscript Mining is built for.
Upload a manuscript, notes, drafts, or a ZIP archive. Files are stored outside the public website directory and renamed on the server.
Before uploading: make sure the material belongs to you or you have permission to submit it. This starter form accepts PDF, DOCX, TXT, RTF, and ZIP files up to 100 MB.
FAQ
Questions Writers Usually Ask
Do I need to clean up my files first?
No. Rough folders, duplicates, abandoned chapters, partial notes, and multiple versions are exactly the kind of material the service is designed to sort through.
Do you rewrite my book?
Not unless you choose editorial help. Manuscript Mining first identifies what is already there, what is strongest, and what may be worth keeping or developing.
Who owns my writing?
You do. Submission does not transfer ownership of your manuscript or underlying material.
What file types can I send?
The starter upload form accepts PDF, DOCX, TXT, RTF, and ZIP files. ZIP is useful when you have many drafts and notes.
About
Writers write. We help you find what’s next.
Manuscript Mining is built around a simple idea: years of writing often contain more usable material than the writer realizes.
Instead of starting over, we look back through the work with a miner’s eye — searching for scenes, lines, characters, ideas, and possibilities worth bringing forward.
Manuscript Mining
A Brian Keith Finn Enterprises company.
Trust the process.
Small ball wins games.
A Brian Keith Finn Enterprises company.
Trust the process.
Small ball wins games.
Contact
Have a question before you upload?
Send us a message and we’ll have it waiting with the rest of the project inquiries.