Myscribeweb.com - Writers Forum

Kimbro · 10-09-2007, 10:36 PM

We invite you to view manuscript submissions at MyScribeWeb.com

A newly launched membership site.

Manuscript samples are free to view in the Author's Directory.

Also you may be interested in listing yourself in the Publisher's Directory

where Writers can find you easily.

valeca · 10-10-2007, 08:48 PM

Genuine mainstream publishers have thousands of submissions pouring in waiting to be read--not to mention thousands more sitting in the slush pile. They don't have time to (or have need to) scour the internet for material.

Best of luck with your endeavor, nonetheless.

Mike C · 10-11-2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Kimbro

Genuine mainstream publishers will look at your manuscript submissions posted at "MyScribeWeb.com"

Kimbro, please don't mislead. Genuine publishers won't go near your website or any of the thousands of other, more established, versions.

Kimbro · 12-02-2007, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by valeca

Genuine mainstream publishers have thousands of submissions pouring in waiting to be read--not to mention thousands more sitting in the slush pile. They don't have time to (or have need to) scour the internet for material.

Best of luck with your endeavor, nonetheless.

Thanks for the good wishes. You are right, the publishers don't have time to scour the internet. That's why they come to the Author's Directory at MyScribeWeb, where they can view what they wish to view, when they wish to view it.

Kimbro · 12-02-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike C

Kimbro, please don't mislead. Genuine publishers won't go near your website or any of the thousands of other, more established, versions.

Mike,
The publishers that are listed in the Publisher's Directory at MyScribeWeb do visit the Authors Directory. I'd apreciate it if you do not post negative comments before checking out your facts. I have spent more than a year making arangements with the publishers before launching MyScribeWeb.

lin · 12-03-2007, 12:38 AM

Sorry, but I don't believe you.

There are so many sites, much more confidence-inspiring than this one, that say if you post there industry people will come and lap it up. It's not true. It doesn't work that way. Its all about hopeful nitwits giving the site money.

Non Serviam · 12-03-2007, 02:50 AM

I suppose we get a dozen or so sites like this start up every year. They aways try to charge authors a hefty fee and rarely fail to try to use wf.com as a free marketing resource. I get irritated about it.

Writers, the process I recommend for marketing your work is to get in touch with a reputable literary agency of the kind that only gets paid when they sell your work. There are literally hundreds of them out there. Do not pay anyone to market your work.

Money should always flow towards the writer, never the other way around.

To the OP, I'd say, because of the sheer number of sites offering this service for a fee in advance, and in most experienced writers' opinions, the sheer uselessness of these sites, you have an enormous burden of cynicism to overcome.

If you really can deliver, then do it on commission like a traditional literary agency. In other words, no fees til you sell the work. That's the only basis on which most decent writers will do business with you.

Mike C · 12-03-2007, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Kimbro

I have spent more than a year making arangements with the publishers before launching MyScribeWeb.

Cool. How many of your writers have sold manuscripts to your listed publishers?

Mike C · 12-03-2007, 09:26 AM

I had a closer look at Kimbro's site. It's bloody ludicrous. It's aimed at selling his 'how to get rich quick' schemes, nothing more.

Not hugely successful either, as he has a grand total of six authors listed, of which at least one is kimbro himself.

And the publisher's list: are you seriously telling me that all those publishers are actively using your site to find new authors? If you are, then I'm calling you a liar.

Many of those you list will not read unsolicited submissions, let alone go looking for them.

Just another cynical way of squeezing money out of gullible writers. Shame on you.

lin · 12-03-2007, 10:48 AM

The question would be "what arrangements?'

My guess...mass email to publishers telling them to check out this site for the stars of the future.

Shame is definitely the word.

CaptainFreedom · 12-03-2007, 02:14 PM

What a dirtbag.

I didn't see one thing on the site about any kind of selection process. Basically if you pay them 100 bucks publishers will read your manuscript regardless of what's in it - totally stupid.

I would suggest that you should at least have a fake selection process to make you jackass website seem more legitimate. Then you could also refer the authors to you in-house editing service too. (that's you too, of course)

How do you sleep at night?

CF

Kimbro · 12-03-2007, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike C

I had a closer look at Kimbro's site. It's bloody ludicrous. It's aimed at selling his 'how to get rich quick' schemes, nothing more.

Not hugely successful either, as he has a grand total of six authors listed, of which at least one is kimbro himself.

And the publisher's list: are you seriously telling me that all those publishers are actively using your site to find new authors? If you are, then I'm calling you a liar.

Many of those you list will not read unsolicited submissions, let alone go looking for them.

Just another cynical way of squeezing money out of gullible writers. Shame on you.

To Mike the not so moderate moderator,

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are posting these derogative remarks to protect your readers, thinking that I am among the unscrupulous scammers ripping of the gullible writers.

Anyone going to MyScribeWeb would soon see that you are in error in your assumptions.

1.Kimbro is a woman not a man.

2. MyScribeWeb is a membership site that supplies resources for Writers/Authors and web builders. It is not a publishing site. There is a $100 per year membership fee to access everything contained within the site. We do not charge Writers any fees for submitting manuscripts! The Publishers list can be freely accessed by the public. Only members can set up a profile page and get listed in the "Authors Directory" Arrangements have been made with Publishers to view the Authors Directory at regular intervals.

3. MyscribeWeb launched in early September 07 so far only a few members have listed themselves in the "Authors Directory" including myself - note that this membership site does not only cater to Writers.
If this site was a scam as you put it don't you think that a scammer would make sure that the "Authors Directory" would look very well populated?

4. I am not privy to what arangements authors make with the publishers or literary agents. If authors who are members of MyScribeWeb want to make anouncements concerning their new releases they can do so in the "Hot Of The Press" section.

5. I am not involved in any "how to get rich schemes" I have worked hard, full time online for 5 years. My sites are all diametrically opposed to get rich quick schemes. If you bothered to study what I have posted on my sites you would realize that. I have helped many people online and am certainly not ashamed of what I do.

12-03-2007, 08:33 PM

Can a mod please remove his site info from his post.

This is the last thing an aspiring author needs to get sucked into.

CaptainFreedom · 12-04-2007, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by duck

Can a mod please remove his site info from his post.

This is the last thing an aspiring author needs to get sucked into.

I wouldn't worry about it. If an author is dumb enough to fall for this, they'll end up doing it somewhere. If not this goofy website, then one of the dozens of other ones just like it.

Here's another suggestion: Why not change 'Hot of the press' to 'hot off the press'? Unless you're talking about the heat generated by the hot air coming out of your mouth or the smoke you're trying to blow up our asses.

Besides, you don't want people to notice that you're a loser until after they send you a check.

Hey, I just thought of something - this might be one of Backward Ox's attempts to tick everybody off. Good one Ox, pretty funny.

CF

Non Serviam · 12-04-2007, 03:04 AM

Kimbro, in your previous post you were marketing a service whereby authors could post their stuff and you implied strongly that this would mean that publishers would read it.

Can you feel the cynicism and hostility? And not just from Mike... It's because writers hear that a lot. I mean, this is the writers' equivalent of getting an email from a Nigerian barrister asking for your help in a substantial cash transfer.

The basis on which authors market their material is paying commission to an agent. If the work doesn't sell, the author owes the agent nothing.

If your website really does have the ability to sell this material to publishers, then charge a 10% fee on sale. Charging an up-front fee of $100 immediately reduces your author-credibility to well below zero because you've been preceded by so many scam artists.