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Friday, April 30, 2010

Get Your 15 Minutes... and Beyond


O.K. So throwing your stuff out there is scary, but important. And I found a site that is awesome for seeing how people react to your writing. http://www.webook.com/ rocks at giving you the chance to throw your work up on the web and see what people say. With WeBook's PageToFame, you post the first page of a novel, even if the rest is nonexistent, and then people start rating it on a scale of 1 to 5. You get to see gut reactions to your work...instantly. It's awesome. It helps you revise. It helps you determine if you are ready to get serious and start sending your stuff out. It helps your ego in a BIG FAT WAY when you do well. If you get high ratings, your page goes to an agent for review and rating, and then you get to put on your first five pages. Then your first fifty. Then your entire novel. And for each step you rise in the ranks, you get two agents who look and rate. Not bad. They used to not charge, (and still charge nothing for the mini-paragraph contests they have, for which winners receive PageToFame coupons and can submit for free), but starting May 1, they will charge around $5 for the submission. But the feedback is invaluable. They are also having a contest where they are giving $1000 to those who get the best scores on PageToFame. NICE! I've had my first page promoted and am about to get the novel of my second promoted. I've also won the Paragraph-palooza contest and have gotten yet another chance to enter PageToFame for free. Try it. It costs nothing through April 30. That's TODAY. So hurry!!!! http://www.webook.com/. Great site. And TOTALLY addictive! ENJOY!

2 comments:

  1. Hey Heather. It looks like they started the $5 thing a day early. :-( I've signed up, though, and will post something ASAP. Thanks!

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  2. Shut. Sorry. Was hoping to get it in under the wire. :(

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