Would you ever consider -- or have you ever considered -- offering to read unpublished manuscripts in your genre in order to supply valuable feedback to an author who is in the pre-submission editing stage?

For example, if you have written murder mysteries, you would read murder mystery manuscripts.

Fantasy writers would read fantasy.

And so on.

A reading fee goes without saying, of course.

Say, $300? $500?

Remember, this isn't editing....this is reading and giving your overall impression of a manuscript.


Am I in loo-loo land, or is this something that is actually done sometimes??