New Promotional Opportunity
A new website offering to help promote authors to UK publishers is launching shortly - and they are offering members of my forum the opportunity to join for free during the launch period.
The site is called OnlyOneChapter.com, and is all about "discovering and promoting new writing talent". According to the team behind the site, OnlyOneChapter.com already has numerous publishers supporting it, and is designed:
- to promote potential authors and their manuscripts in the form of only one chapter
- for publishers to discover new talent online
- for publishers and authors to promote new releases
The launch opportunity is only open to a limited number of people. If you would like to promote your work to UK publishers, you are asked to send the following by email: first chapter (max 4,000 words, double spaced, Roman 12pt); brief (i.e. blurb) - max. 100 words; synopsis - max. 2,000 words; and a mini-biography and photo. All of these should be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. For more information, and to find the email address to submit your work, please visit this topic on my forum. Already some questions from members about the new site have been answered here.
Obviously at this stage it is difficult to know how successful this new site is likely to prove, but as there is no charge for submitting your work, it has to be worth looking into. Incidentally, the team behind OnlyOneChapter.com say that they have no objection to people submitting chapters that are already on view elsewhere on the web.
The site is called OnlyOneChapter.com, and is all about "discovering and promoting new writing talent". According to the team behind the site, OnlyOneChapter.com already has numerous publishers supporting it, and is designed:
- to promote potential authors and their manuscripts in the form of only one chapter
- for publishers to discover new talent online
- for publishers and authors to promote new releases
The launch opportunity is only open to a limited number of people. If you would like to promote your work to UK publishers, you are asked to send the following by email: first chapter (max 4,000 words, double spaced, Roman 12pt); brief (i.e. blurb) - max. 100 words; synopsis - max. 2,000 words; and a mini-biography and photo. All of these should be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. For more information, and to find the email address to submit your work, please visit this topic on my forum. Already some questions from members about the new site have been answered here.
Obviously at this stage it is difficult to know how successful this new site is likely to prove, but as there is no charge for submitting your work, it has to be worth looking into. Incidentally, the team behind OnlyOneChapter.com say that they have no objection to people submitting chapters that are already on view elsewhere on the web.
Labels: opportunities, resources, writing
Nick at 10:02 AM 
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http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?s=7bdbafd4da1bbb5f9502031542b3ae83&t=63471
Be careful. Have a look at what these guys say before you sign up to anything. Just speaking from personal experience of someone who has been "done" by similar schemes in the past... and there have been a few.
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/services.html#Manuscript
...or easier to read, and less aggressive!
This opportunity has been discussed in some detail on this thread of my forum. The representative from the site has been upfront about answering all questions from members, and at the moment I cannot see any cause for suspicion about it.
Obviously there are no guarantees with services like this, and if they start charging a fee it will be up to individuals to decide whether it is worth paying this or not. While the free offer is open, however, I cannot see any particular reason not to take advantage of it.
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