An online community where writers help one another get published

Your priority: genuine publishers; your fallback: Print on Demand

Realise your ambition to write a book - by dipping into WriteAway expertise - at will. Mainstream publishers and literary agents should be the first to view your work.

Your writing deserves to be submitted professionally.

Publishing is a dynamic business, and your work deserves to be professionally presented to agents and publishers. If it isn't, it's unlikely to be read. Our constructive assessment of your proposal letter and synopsis for publishers/agents will ensure your work is taken seriously. Publishers seldom reveal reasons for rejecting authors. For WriteAway, it's part and parcel of our service. Our assessment panel of publishers and writers want you to succeed, and ensure you strike the right note with your submission package.

Self-publishing (Traditional or Print on Demand) is a valid fallback.

Costs have tumbled, and Print-on-Demand enables you to order copies in line with demand. You don't have to sell thousands of copies of 'Wapping Primary School - Fifty Years On' to break-even. It's now possible to produce a quality book with a limited print run for hundreds rather than thousands of pounds. The only beasts to beware of are the vanity publishers; organisations who promise much and deliver little. We identify these people for you and protect your wallet.

A checklist for your writing project

We comment on all publishing practices because we are an independent community of writers and publishers. No banners, no ads, no commissions under the counter; our members report things as they find them; good and not so good; excellent value and dubious worth. We help you find the route to success which suits you best. Members of the WriteAway community of writers share our facilities, and benefit from collective expertise. Should you decide, nevertheless, to go it alone, the signposts below may help you avoid some of the pitfalls awaiting the unwary.

1. Mainstream publishers should remain your target - until you have exhausted all possibilities of being taken under their wing. Why enter a lottery and then disqualify yourself from the prizes, and jackpot?
2. A literary agent should obtain a better deal than you could achieve alone. However, they take some pleasing; only submit your finest work.
3. Get cracking with writing - any writing. Under-use or lack of creative exercise may mean the brain needs waking before it delivers its best.
4. Ensure appraisals of your work are independent; the bandit/vanity publishers seduce their clients on the strength of the appraisals they themselves issue! Invest in our disinterested appraisals;they will pay for themselves many times over. They will also ensure you avoid the all-embracing tentacles of firms and individuals who parasitically contract with the gullible.
5. Check, and check again. Few manuscripts stand up to scrutiny in their original draft . Serve up a casserole, not a burnt, barbecued cutlet.

Yes-yes, I know all that

With the above forgotten - you are impatient to burst into print - we now list those areas where W r i t e A w a y can help you storm the heights, while keeping to the above ‘rules’. Should self-publishing become the choice, either because of your project’s limited market appeal or after you meet resistance on the mainstream publishers’ part to see your work as bestseller material, we show you how to ‘pick-and-mix’ publishing services so that you bring your book out on time at minimum cost.

        Lifetime WriteAway members enjoy the following benefits:

• Independent assessments of completed work - before it's submitted to publishers or agents
• Independent assessments of synopses/proposals describing completed work
• Guidance for new writers tackling a commercial writing project for the first time
• Continuous background marketing support
• Advice on acceptable word-processing formats for publishers
• Help with research from our information experts
• Tips on approaching a literary agent
• How to find and brief an independent editor
• How to find/brief a proofreader
• How to acquire an ISBN reference
• How to set up a bar-code
• How to find/brief a disc formatter
• How to find/brief an artist for illustrations/cover design
• How to select a POD company
• How to select a 'conventional' printer
• How to find a distributor/wholesaler
• How to retain control of your project at all time

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