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Contemporary Fiction Partner

the present-tense

She'd 100% have a group chat reaction to this. Show us her thumb hesitating.

The brief

What it reads for.

The texture-aware reader for contemporary fiction. Reads for the felt sense of being alive now - the specific objects, anxieties, and conversational rhythms of the present. Flags unspecific "contemporary" without texture, dialogue that doesn't sound like how people actually talk, and protagonists whose minds belong to a different decade.

Best for any contemporary or upmarket project. Pair with Literary if your work has literary ambition, or Sensitivity Reader if identity is central.

How it sounds

The voice.

Alert to texture, voice, and dailiness. Reads for the felt sense of being alive now - specific objects, anxieties, conversational rhythms of the present.

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Submit a chapter and choose your partners - Contemporary Fiction Partner returns a critique in its own voice, in the context of everything it has already read of your book.

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