The Wood Beyond The World Forum YouWriteOn Publishing offer

Another opportunity for those who are ready for it.

This time its UK site YouWriteOn. I love the site and the way it works for reviews, but am not really ready to utilise it fully and have not been keen on the self-publishing aspect of their services. This latest stint is for UK and US residents only I'm afriad, but if you enter, keep us all updated.

Dear YouWriteOn member

Arts Council funded YouWriteOn.com will publish the first 5,000 writers who contact us for Free - Fiction & Non-Fiction

To participate follow these 2 steps:

1) Email [email protected], and inside your email add your name, address, telephone number, book title, genre, length of your book, and a synopsis up to 50 words

2) We will contact the first 5,000 people who email us by 31st October 2008. Your book will be ready to order by readers as a paperback by Christmas. Open to UK and US residents.

YouWriteOn.com - Our Free Publishing Aims

Our aim is to give the opportunity to new writers to help create success for their books. Since YouWriteOn began in 2006, we have seen our authors achieve success through both mainstream and alternative publishing. This summer’s member successes include a six figure publication deal with Random House for Caligula author Douglas Jackson, and member Keith Mansfield achieving a three book deal with Costa Award winning publisher Quercus with his children’s novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London. Many other YouWriteOn writers have received rave reviews from fellow writers and readers onsite, and having a book available to order gives new writers an added opportunity to try to achieve success.

Books will be available to order through the YouWriteOn website, and members will be able to get in touch with readers and reviewers who have enjoyed their book excerpts on site. YouWriteOn authors will receive 60% royalties for each copy sold to the public, compared to 12 to15% royalties that authors usually receive through mainstream publishing. Your book will be of the same quality as a bookstore paperback. You retain all rights to your book at all times. Open to UK and US residents only.

If you achieve success with your book and a publisher offers you a good deal, you can take up their offer straight away without any obligation to YouWriteOn.com. In Autumn 2007, YouWriteOn published Bufflehead Sisters by member Patricia J. DeLois – available to order online as a paperback - and the successful author achieved a 2 book deal with Penguin this summer. This was after bookstores contacted us so that they could stock the novel, and after thousands of online sales through us. Publishing is completely free through our setup process when writers send us their completed books.


That sounds good, but I would also like my book available online to order through Waterstones, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, WH Smith and other book distributors?

Should you wish to potentially achieve a much higher readership through being available to order through all major booksellers throughout the UK and US, such as Waterstones, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and WH Smith's, then you can do so for £39.99 through our separate partnership with Legend Press. Legend Press has been shortlisted for five publishing and business awards over the last 18 months, and in 2008 one of their titles Salt & Honey by Candi Miller was named as one of World Book Day's 'Top Ten Books to Talk About'. You retain all rights to your book. Email [email protected]  to take advantage of this offer. Open to applicants of all nationalities.

Additional Good YWO News – Random House, publisher of authors such as John Grisham and Bill Bryson, has agreed to review the YouWriteOn Top Ten writers for a further six months between October 2008 and March 2009.