In the good old days, when books were written with quills or carved out of stone, there were few bad authors. Taking on the task of writing 75,000 words was one only dedicated people, or fanatics, would contemplate. A finished manuscript was a rare and valuable thing. There might only be one copy of it to be sent to agents or publishers. That’s why there were very few Stone Age bestsellers.
Nowadays, with the advent of computers, word processors and cheap printers, anyone with a huge ego and nothing better to do can knock out a quick literature light, or lit lite, produce five hundred c... View More »

In the good old days, when books were written with quills or carved out of stone, there were few bad authors. Taking on the task of writing 75,000 words was one only dedicated people, or fanatics, would contemplate. A finished manuscript was a rare and valuable thing. There might only be one copy of it to be sent to agents or publishers. That’s why there were very few Stone Age bestsellers.
Nowadays, with the advent of computers, word processors and cheap printers, anyone with a huge ego and nothing better to do can knock out a quick literature light, or lit lite, produce five hundred copies of their awful manuscript and inundate innocent publishers and agents alike with their time consuming rubbish. No wonder most of them go unread.
This does not apply to you, of course. No. You are not some pampered Trust fund baby with more time and money than sense, and more literary pretensions than literary truths. No. You are an honest author who has put heart and soul into your work and by ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration has produced at least two highly publishable books.
The trouble is you cannot get anyone to read them!
This is where Can Write Will Write comes in.
The idea is this. Proper authors, that is, people who have written at least two books, may submit up to five thousand words per book plus synopses, photographs/illustrations and, within reason, anything to help get a publishing deal. These will be read by our assessors, and if deemed suitably professional, will be approved for publication on our website.
Authors who have produced at least two full length pieces of work (and lets face it; you cannot call yourself an author if you haven’t) are invited to submit their synopses and opening chapters for evaluation. If, in our opinion, they are good enough, the synopses plus the first 5,000 words or thereabouts, will be posted for others to view and comment on. Please note that both books must be good enough, as publishers are rarely interested in one-book wonders.
We also publish about four titles per year. This year is spoken four but we will be looking for another four from January 2009.
We at CWWW are not vanity publishers. To publish with us, the author/agent submits the manuscript and synopsis. We study it and decide whether, in our opinion, it will sell in enough numbers to make it worth our while to publish. In other words, if we like it!
If so, we publish at our own expense, charging the author/agent nothing. We make our money by deducting 20% of the sale profits, forwarding the rest to the agent, who negotiates their own deal with the author.
We sell on Amazon and various other websites. We have arrangements with Amazon etc so that whenever someone buys one of our books, they liaise directly with our printers to print and deliver the book to the customer. Amazon and the printers deduct their fees and send the balance - the profit - to us three months in arrears. We deduct our 20% and forward the rest to the agent/author. Should the agent/author sell copies privately, e.g. on their own website or in bookshops, that is up to them and they can keep all the profits from such sales. «View Less

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In the good old days, when books were written with quills or carved out of stone, there were few bad authors. Taking on the task of writing 75,000 words was one only dedicated people, or fanatics, would contemplate. A finished manuscript was a rare and valuable thing. There might only be one copy of it to be sent to agents or publishers. That’s why there were very few Stone Age bestsellers.
Nowadays, with the advent of computers, word processors and cheap printers, anyone with a huge ego and nothing better to do can knock out a quick literature light, or lit lite, produce five hundred copies of their awful manuscript and inundate innocent publishers and agents alike with their time consuming rubbish. No wonder most of them go unread.
This does not apply to you, of course. No. You are not some pampered Trust fund baby with more time and money than sense, and more literary pretensions than literary truths. No. You are an honest author who has put heart and soul into your work and by ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration has produced at least two highly publishable books.
The trouble is you cannot get anyone to read them!
This is where Can Write Will Write comes in.
The idea is this. Proper authors, that is, people who have written at least two books, may submit up to five thousand words per book plus synopses, photographs/illustrations and, within reason, anything to help get a publishing deal. These will be read by our assessors, and if deemed suitably professional, will be approved for publication on our website.
Authors who have produced at least two full length pieces of work (and lets face it; you cannot call yourself an author if you haven’t) are invited to submit their synopses and opening chapters for evaluation. If, in our opinion, they are good enough, the synopses plus the first 5,000 words or thereabouts, will be posted for others to view and comment on. Please note that both books must be good enough, as publishers are rarely interested in one-book wonders.
We also publish about four titles per year. This year is spoken four but we will be looking for another four from January 2009.
We at CWWW are not vanity publishers. To publish with us, the author/agent submits the manuscript and synopsis. We study it and decide whether, in our opinion, it will sell in enough numbers to make it worth our while to publish. In other words, if we like it!
If so, we publish at our own expense, charging the author/agent nothing. We make our money by deducting 20% of the sale profits, forwarding the rest to the agent, who negotiates their own deal with the author.
We sell on Amazon and various other websites. We have arrangements with Amazon etc so that whenever someone buys one of our books, they liaise directly with our printers to print and deliver the book to the customer. Amazon and the printers deduct their fees and send the balance - the profit - to us three months in arrears. We deduct our 20% and forward the rest to the agent/author. Should the agent/author sell copies privately, e.g. on their own website or in bookshops, that is up to them and they can keep all the profits from such sales. «View Less

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In the good old days, when books were written with quills or carved out of stone, there were few bad authors. Taking on the task of writing 75,000 words was one only dedicated people, or fanatics, would contemplate. A finished manuscript was a rare and valuable thing. There might only be one copy of it to be sent to agents or publishers. That’s why there were very few Stone Age bestsellers.
Nowadays, with the advent of computers, word processors and cheap printers, anyone with a huge ego and nothing better to do can knock out a quick literature light, or lit lite, produce five hundred copies of their awful manuscript and inundate innocent publishers and agents alike with their time consuming rubbish. No wonder most of them go unread.
This does not apply to you, of course. No. You are not some pampered Trust fund baby with more time and money than sense, and more literary pretensions than literary truths. No. You are an honest author who has put heart and soul into your work and by ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration has produced at least two highly publishable books.
The trouble is you cannot get anyone to read them!
This is where Can Write Will Write comes in.
The idea is this. Proper authors, that is, people who have written at least two books, may submit up to five thousand words per book plus synopses, photographs/illustrations and, within reason, anything to help get a publishing deal. These will be read by our assessors, and if deemed suitably professional, will be approved for publication on our website.
Authors who have produced at least two full length pieces of work (and lets face it; you cannot call yourself an author if you haven’t) are invited to submit their synopses and opening chapters for evaluation. If, in our opinion, they are good enough, the synopses plus the first 5,000 words or thereabouts, will be posted for others to view and comment on. Please note that both books must be good enough, as publishers are rarely interested in one-book wonders.
We also publish about four titles per year. This year is spoken four but we will be looking for another four from January 2009.
We at CWWW are not vanity publishers. To publish with us, the author/agent submits the manuscript and synopsis. We study it and decide whether, in our opinion, it will sell in enough numbers to make it worth our while to publish. In other words, if we like it!
If so, we publish at our own expense, charging the author/agent nothing. We make our money by deducting 20% of the sale profits, forwarding the rest to the agent, who negotiates their own deal with the author.
We sell on Amazon and various other websites. We have arrangements with Amazon etc so that whenever someone buys one of our books, they liaise directly with our printers to print and deliver the book to the customer. Amazon and the printers deduct their fees and send the balance - the profit - to us three months in arrears. We deduct our 20% and forward the rest to the agent/author. Should the agent/author sell copies privately, e.g. on their own website or in bookshops, that is up to them and they can keep all the profits from such sales. «View Less