uptone: writing

Wednesday, 11 April 2007

Internet Portal for Literary Agents & Publishers is Launched

An opportunity for literary agents and publishers to find the talent they seek

Today sees the launch of a new website offering magazine editors, literary agents, and publishers the opportunity to find the talented writers and authors they are looking for.

“Every author knows how hard it is to find a good literary agent or publisher,” says Nigel Edwards, founder of Let’s Get Published, “and a major reason for this is the lack of time that good agencies and publishers have available to explore new writing.”

Literary agents and publishers are busy people. They actually want to discover and promote successful writers. A major reason cited for not taking on new talent or accepting new manuscripts (MSP’s) for review is the lack of time available; and the biggest reason for that lack of time is the sheer volume of reviews that agents and publishers are asked to conduct. Imagine the mountains of packaged (frequently unsolicited) MSP’s that land on their desks every day.

There is a real barrier, where agents and publishers in their offices are surrounded by walls of paper that prevent new authors from getting in! And what do the authors, do? They send them more paper! Day after day after day. So what can be done to ease the situation?

Instead of writers sending out manuscripts to agents and publishers, why don’t the agents and publishers go directly to the manuscripts? Absurd? Not at all; the medium to do just that exists with the world wide web. Writers could publish work samples on their own websites – but how are the agents and publishers to know where to look? There are millions of writers and thousands of agents worldwide. What’s needed is a common portal, or meeting place, which is exactly what www.letsgetpublished.com provides.

It’s simple: authors present up to three chapters of text plus a short synopsis to Let’s Get Published, who display the submission on the internet; copyright, of course, remains with the author. Literary agents and publishers can then browse the categorized submissions at their convenience, without having to battle with reams of hard copy, without having to waste time unwrapping parcels of MSP’s and dividing them up between the available genre specialists in the office. They don’t even need to be in the office, since the web is universal. The benefits don’t end there, though. Agents and publishers can look for and find authors when they want. There’s no more need to rewrap MSP’s to return to sender, or write the obligatory note of rejection.

Nick Daws (http://www.mywritingblog.com/writer/), author of over 40 publications says “I think Let’s Get Published offers a useful alternative to the regular methods for publishers and authors to find each other. It allows literary agents to quickly and easily assess an author's skill-level and the marketability of their writing in a neutral and objective arena.”

For more information, contact:

Nigel Edwards
U.K.

Phone: +44 1908 563442
Mobile: +44 7799 623736
E-mail: nigel@letsgetpublished.com
Web: http://www.letsgetpublished.com
Blog: http://wildlegends.wordpress.com

Internet press release, publishing, authors, authoring, submission, writers, writing, novels, fiction, non-fiction, literary agents, publishers, magazines, editors

This press release was sent to:

Search results:

Google News (not recorded)
Google Web

Extras:

Internet Portal for Authors is Launched

An opportunity for authors to promote their talents

Today sees the launch of a new website that offers both published and unpublished authors the opportunity to present themselves directly to the desktops of editors, publishers and literary agents. Let’s Get Published is a free-to-use service for writers, where they can submit samples of their work for publication on the world wide web.

“It’s a cliché to say that everyone has a book inside them,” says Nigel Edwards, founder of Let’s Get Published, “but I happen to believe it’s true. There are untold numbers of people out there in the world who have already written their stories but have not, as yet, managed to achieve the delightful aim of seeing their work in print. Let’s Get Published is one way of making that goal a little easier to accomplish.”

The biggest hurdle budding authors have – and this can apply to published authors as well – is coming to the attention of a suitable editor, agent or publisher. These are very busy people who are presented daily with ream after ream of manuscripts passing across their desks, or as attachments to their emails. How much time they must waste just sorting through this volume, never mind actually reviewing it!

Let’s Get Published offers a solution by providing a common portal where the talents of authors can be displayed for publishers and agents to review at their convenience. Consider the benefits:

authors no longer have to look for agents, agents can find them;
there’s no more need to enclose postage for returned manuscripts – in fact, the service is free full-stop!
Plus, the author has the pleasure of seeing their name next to their work, and knowing that they have a potential audience of millions.

Sandy Mather (http://www2.blogger.com/www.writingtoinspireyou.com), author of numerous published articles and features says “Let’s Get Published has all the possibilities for offering a really useful service to authors looking to make the jump from just being a writer to being a published writer.”

As for publishers and agents, they also receive great benefit. By encouraging authors to present through Let’s Get Published they can reduce the costly time needed to unpack, sort and categorise received manuscripts, because that’s all done by Let’s Get Published. Instead, they can browse through http://www.letsgetpublished.com/, select the genre of their choice, scan the submissions and contact Let’s Get Published for the submitters' contact details. Simple!

For more information, contact:

Nigel Edwards
U.K.

Phone: +44 1908 563442
Mobile: +44 7799 623736
E-mail: nigel@letsgetpublished.com
Web: http://www.letsgetpublished.com/
Blog: http://wildlegends.wordpress.com/

Internet press release, publishing, authors, authoring, submission, writers, writing, novels, fiction, non-fiction, literary agents, publishers, magazines, editors

This press release was submitted to:

Search results:

Google News (not recorded)
Google Web