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WritersServices.com
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WritersServices offers a huge range of free
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Check out our
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Our latest site
statistics update. How to improve your writing
 | Check out
Advice for Writers for links to over 65 useful pages on the site.
The latest are
How to market your
writing services online,
Writing
for the web, Top Ten Tips
for nonfiction writers, Choosing a
Service and
Getting your poetry published. |
 | Read our new 7-part series An Editor's Advice, by Maureen Kincaid
Speller, which
deals with the most common problems she has encountered in the
manuscripts which cross her desk. Read Michael Legat’s 19
Factsheets
on everything from plotting your novel to publishers’ contracts. |
 | Use our
editorial services to let
our expert editors help you get your work ready for publication.
These cover everything from
Reader's and Editor's
Reports to Copy editing. You could start by looking at
Which service? |
 | Our latest other new services are our three-tier
Children's
Editorial Services and
Synopsis Writing, to
help you get your submission package ready, Typing and
Manuscript
Polishing, which acknowledges the growth of world English and helps
non-native speakers get their work into shape. Our
fictionalised stories show you
how the services work. |
 | Trawl our
WritersBookstall for the right book to improve your writing
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just updated again with 60 more titles, making 200 books in all - covering every kind of writing from Fantasy to
Writing a memoir. |
 | Use our new
writers' magazine
reviews to find one to subscribe to. Just added: Self
Publishing Magazine. |
 | Take a look at our Education
Resource Centre, nearly 80 pages of downloadable information set up for
writing course organisers and students. |
How to get published
 | There's a useful new page on
Getting your poetry
published. |
 | Check out our new page on putting together
Your submission package. |
 | Look through our newly-updated UK and
US literary agency listings,
bringing you hundreds of detailed listings of UK, US and
international agents. |
 | Work your way through our tips for
Finding an Agent, essential reading for anyone who is
looking for one. |
 | Consider using our new Submission
Critique Service to get your submission package into good shape
before you send it out. |
 | If you have used our services and the editor reports favourably on your
work, we will recommend it to agents we know. |
 | Check out our advice on Avoiding
Rejection and Submissions. |
 | Working with an agent
shows you how to get the most out of this key relationship. |
 | Try our Problem page to see if
we've dealt with your problem. |
 | Explore our WritersBookstall to find a
book which will give you the answer to your problem. |
 | Use our Contract Vetting service
to make sure you know what you’re signing. |
 | Once you have a publisher, Preparing
for Publication guides you through the next steps and tells you
what to expect. |
 | If you have an old typescript, use our new
Scanning service to get it
onto your computer so you can prepare it for submission or publication. |
 | If your problem is a handwritten manuscript or you can't face re-typing
a messy one, our Manuscript typing
service can get it into pristine shape. |
Keep up to date on books and publishing
How to raise money
 | Sell your book to a publisher (see How to get
Published above). |
 | Look at the possibility of
self-publishing. |
Information on everything for the writer
Enjoy some light relief
 | Examine the truly bizarre but authentic
Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title
of the Year. |
 | Follow the triumphs and disasters of an unpublished writer’s life in Bob
G Ritchie’s Journal of a Virtually Unpublished Writer |
 | Enjoy the silly mistakes publishers have made in turning down writers'
work in our Rotten
Rejections page. |
 | Check out our pages of Writers'
quotations |
Publish your own book
Wary of new technology?
 | Browse through our Web
How-to - a just-expanded and revised section on how your computer works, with
introductory pages on the Internet for new surfers, master-classes for the more technically
minded and discussion of issues affecting the web (latest are
Looking after your mouse and Spyware
on how cookies can provide advertisers with information
and what you can do to stop them). |
 | A new series, Quality v Quantity, looks first at
the invisible world of the web. |
 | A useful section deals with using the
web as a research tool. |
 | Try not to avoid Health Hazards’ warnings
about what the computer can do to you... |
Contact other Writers
 | Use our new My Say page to write
about something you want to communicate to other writers. |
Make your writing available on the web
And much more…
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