LAST REMINDER! Writer's Relief Review Board Meets THIS Week: Friday, January 11 (FULL-SERVICE clients enter this service BY INVITATION ONLY, so send your work to our review board BEFORE FRIDAY.)
If your New Year's resolutions include making your writing a priority in 2008, send your work to our review board NOW.
If you're NOT a do-it-yourselfer and want to utilize our FULL services (rather than our A LA CARTE service), you need to send work to our REVIEW BOARD.
There are some important differences between the two services. If you are accepted into our FULL-SERVICE client list:
We proof and prepare your work to industry standards, prepare master copies, and maintain electronic or hard copy versions of the work here at Writer's Relief, Inc.
We propose, prepare, and proof content for cover letters.
We review and target your work to specific markets based on content, length, reading dates, etc.
We prepare 25 - 30 submissions for each title (or group of poems) within each two-month cycle.
We print your individually addressed cover/query letters.
We track every submission.
We offer guidance regarding submissions, acceptances, etc.
How many submissions have you mailed in the past two months? This is a great time of year to focus energy on your writing. If you've been putting off getting your work to our review board, now's the time to send it to us. Writers submitting their work regularly and extensively increase their odds of acceptance . . . dramatically. We have a limited number of openings available in specific genres. This upcoming cycle is one of the best times for you to enter our client list.
Our review board will meet THIS Friday (January 11) and make selections for the coming cycle. This means you will have the opportunity to have your work reviewed in a very timely manner. If you would like your work considered, be sure it arrives in our offices before this date. After selections are made we will not be registering new clients for at least two to four months. Keep in mind that we cannot accept e-mail submissions for our review, because all work is circulated to a panel of readers. Use the address below.
Our review board met two months ago. We have room to invite a few more writers into our Writer's Relief family. We are reading in the following genres only:
Poetry—Send 10 - 12 unpublished poems, your biography, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Novels—Send synopsis, first 30 pages of your unpublished manuscript, sample query letter, your biography, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Short Stories or Personal/Creative Essays—Send three unpublished stories, your biography, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Nonfiction (books)—Send chapter outline, proposal, sample chapters (30 pages) of your unpublished manuscript, your biography, and a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
We will mail our letters of acceptance or rejection before January 15, which means you won't have to wait long for our decision. Our review is FREE. If our review board determines your writing is strong enough (and markets are plentiful enough), they will send you an invitation to join our services. They will quote you FLAT FEES at that time. You may accept or decline their invitation.
Keep in mind that we must turn away 80 percent of the work that comes to us. However, if your writing is strong, don't let procrastination, hesitation, lack of marketing experience, or fear stop you from submitting your work.
Wouldn't it be amazing to get your submissions in the mail to all the best publishers and agents? For the past 13 years, Writer's Relief has successfully helped writers beat the procrastinator in them. We help clients find the time to write.
Writers have been looking to us for years to help them alleviate the countless hours needed to research ever-changing writers' markets. We continue to have the most current and best writers' markets included in our database. Because our database is updated daily from information we receive from all of our clients, as well as thousands of journals and agents directly, our lists are more up-to-date than any market book or online source.
Send Writing Samples To:
Review Board, Writer's Relief, Inc., 409 South River Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601 (no e-mail submissions for our panel of reviewers)
We want to be your partner in the submission process. Call us toll-free (between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Eastern time) if you have any questions. One of our personal submission strategists will be happy to spend a few minutes with you on the telephone.
Keep Writing and Happy New Year!
Ronnie L. Smith, President
Writer's Relief, Inc.
(866) 405-3003 (toll free), (201) 641-3003
http://www.writersrelief.com
P.S. Our January Writers' Newsflash will arrive in a few days. Look for it in your inbox. It will contain dated anthology and journal listings, as well as great articles.
P.P.S. Have your work in our office by THIS Friday (January 11).
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