AuthorSuite for Publishers
Clear the Slush.Keep the Credential.
Pre-screen every submission before a reader opens it. Acquire with a scored, documented evaluation on file. And hand every author you sign a verifiable credential with your imprint's name on it.
The slush pile isn't a reading problem.
It's a cost problem, a consistency problem,
and a defensibility problem — every month.
What Changes
Before and after the pile is pre-screened.
Not a new editorial philosophy. The same acquisitions standard your house already holds — applied to every submission before a person spends an hour on it.
Without AuthorSuite
🕐Readers burn hours on submissions that were never viable
📉Coverage quality drifts with the reader, the deadline, and the stack
🎲Acquisition calls made on gut, with no documented rationale
💸Reader fees and freelance coverage cost thousands a month
🔒Authors uneasy about where their unpublished manuscript goes
📭Nothing to point to when an entrant asks why they were passed
With AuthorSuite
📊Every submission arrives already scored, graded, and verdicted
📐One standard — submission #1 and submission #500 read the same way
📄A formal Certificate of Evaluation behind every acquisition decision
⏱️Readers spend their hours only on the shortlist that earns it
💻Manuscripts are never stored on our servers — only the score metadata
✦Every signed author carries your imprint's credential forward
Why Publishers Use It
Six reasons this belongs in an acquisitions workflow.
Independent presses, hybrid publishers, genre imprints, digital-first houses — anyone whose intake is bigger than their reading budget.
🚪
Pre-screened intake
The obvious no's are handled before a reader opens the file. Your team only ever sees what cleared the first pass.
📐
One consistent standard
The same structured evaluation on every submission — no drift by reader, deadline, or how deep the stack is that week.
📄
Defensible acquisition record
A formal Certificate of Evaluation — grade, score, category breakdown — on file behind every yes and every no.
🔒
Author-safe by design
Unpublished manuscripts are never retained on our servers. You keep the score metadata; the author keeps their file. Tell submitters that plainly.
📚
Fiction and nonfiction, one intake
Manuscripts, proposals, and audio/podcast scripts are each routed to the evaluation engine tuned for that format — automatically.
🏷️
Priced for an imprint
Volume evaluation pricing scaled to a reading period or a full year — not an enterprise contract, not a per-seat platform.
The Workflow
Where it sits in acquisitions.
It doesn't change how you acquire. It changes what reaches the desk and what's on file when you decide.
📥
Intake
Submission received
Manuscript, proposal, or script comes in through your existing channel.
📊
Evaluation Engine
Pre-screen
Scored against a consistent standard. Pass / Needs Revision / Recommend / Green-Lit.
📋
Shortlist
Reader review
Your readers spend their hours only on submissions that cleared the first pass.
✏️
Certificate of Evaluation
Acquisition decision
Every yes and no has a documented score, grade, and category breakdown on file.
🎧
Production tools (optional)
Produce in-house
Audiobook narration and branded evaluation reports, if your house does its own production.
✦
Portable credential
Author carries it forward
The signed author attaches your imprint's verified credential to every submission that follows.
A Line You Can Put in Your Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts are evaluated. They are not stored.
AuthorSuite keeps only the evaluation metadata — title, date, score, grade, verdict, certificate number. The manuscript itself is never retained on our servers, never used to train anything, never readable back. That's not a policy setting. It's how the pipeline is built — and it's a promise you can pass straight through to the authors who submit to you.
Proof Before Pitch
72 manuscripts screened on one standard before the first client signed.
The founder ran a full slush pile through the evaluation engine before opening it to publishers. These aren't projections.
72
Manuscripts screened on one consistent standard
$6,500
Saved in editorial and coverage costs
1
Rubric — from submission #1 to #500
$0
Manuscript bytes stored on our servers. Ever.
The Credential
The certificate your author carries into every room after yours.
Every evaluation issues an AuthorSuite Validated Certificate — scored, graded, verifiable by number. The author you sign attaches it to every subsequent submission, agent query, and rights pitch. Your imprint's name is on the reason they got the meeting.
Agents, scouts, and rights buyers verify it in ten seconds at authorsuite.online/verify.
Questions Acquisitions Editors Ask
Answered before you have to.
Does this replace our readers?
No. It clears their desk. AuthorSuite handles the first pass — the submissions that were never going to acquisition anyway — and scores the rest on one consistent standard. Your readers spend their hours on the shortlist that actually deserves the debate.
What happens to a manuscript that's submitted for evaluation?
It is evaluated and then it is gone. We retain only the metadata — title, date, score, grade, verdict, certificate number — so the credential stays verifiable. The manuscript text is never stored on our servers, never used for training, never readable back. You can quote that verbatim to your submitters.
How consistent is the scoring across a whole reading period?
The same standard applies to the first submission and the five-hundredth. No fatigue, no drift, no "it was late in the day" reads. Every submission gets the same structured evaluation and a documented score you can defend to a submitter who asks why they were passed.
We publish fiction and nonfiction. Is this one tool for both?
Yes. Manuscripts, book proposals, and audio/podcast scripts are each routed automatically to the evaluation engine tuned for that format. Your intake stays one pipeline.
Can our whole acquisitions team work from one account?
Yes — that's how the program is set up. Volume evaluation runs against a shared monthly pool, so readers and editors draw from the same allotment rather than each buying a seat.
We only need screening, not production tools.
That's the standard setup. The publisher tiers are evaluation-only — no platform features, no per-seat licensing. Production tools (audiobook narration, branded reports) are a separate add-on for houses that want them.
Publisher Pricing
A monthly evaluation pool for the whole house.
Two tiers, built for a publisher's intake — one shared monthly pool your whole acquisitions team draws from, overage billed automatically. One-off submissions run at a flat per-evaluation rate with no subscription.
Imprint
$2,900
per month
"A steady intake and a small acquisitions team."
- 100 evaluations / month
- $29.00 per evaluation
- Overage billed automatically
- One shared pool for your whole team
- Certificate of Evaluation on every submission
- Format-matched engine — fiction, nonfiction, audio
Start Imprint →
Full House
House
$5,000
per month
"Year-round intake across multiple imprints."
- 250 evaluations / month
- $20.00 per evaluation
- Overage billed automatically
- Priority queue
- Shared pool across every imprint you run
- Certificate of Evaluation on every submission
Start House →
Your Acquisitions Pipeline
From slush pile to signed list.
Every reader on the shortlist. Every decision on the record. Every author you sign carrying your imprint's credential into the next room.
Banker. Author. Founder. — Don Swann II | authorsuite.online