WordHustler Press Release - May 19th
WordHustler Opens Literary Marketplace to World
Today, California-based WordHustler launches its new service that enables writers all over the world to submit manuscripts to US literary markets without ever having to lick a stamp.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - May 19th, 2008 - WordHustler, a writing services company, today launches a web-based application that enables writers all over the world to submit manuscripts to US literary markets. Formed by two Los Angeles writers, WordHustler, available at www.wordhustler.com, provides writers with a bevy of innovative tools designed to help authors of all genres get their manuscripts into the hands of editors and find publishing success. WordHustler offers a free database of over 3,000 community-moderated US literary markets, a submission tracker, a cover letter composer, a project manager, and OS X dashboard widgets for submission tracking on-the-go.
WordHustler doesn’t just help writers find places to publish. Indeed, WordHustler will print, ship, and help writers track manuscripts of any length or genre. “What we’ve done is significant. The main reason that writers don’t send their work out more often is actually quite simple: it’s a pain,” says John L. Singleton, chief architect and co-founder of WordHustler. “First, you have to write something brilliant. Then there’s the costly printing, postage, and SASEs. When you’re all done you still have to track those submissions and follow up. Otherwise it just ends up wasting a lot of time and money. We invented WordHustler so writers could spend their time writing.”
Getting Published in the 21st Century
Prior to WordHustler, the only option for writers seeking publication was to become their own personal assistant. In today’s modern office that means mastering spreadsheets, mail merges, databases, and other complicated technology. “The tools available to today’s writer are unbelievably primitive,” says Singleton. “We’ve given writers a suite of sophisticated tools that simply didn’t exist in one place before. Better tools equal a better product…and we hope that writers will do interesting things with our tools.”
WordHustler is the first writing service company in the world to offer a complete, integrated submission solution. “There are other directory-type services on the web,” says Anne Walls, co-founder and creative director of WordHustler. “But none of those services help you actually get your work out there. I’m talking about the physical work of submitting to a market. No one does that.”
Rather than charging for directory listings, WordHustler offers a comprehensive lineup of products to help writers get published. WordHustler’s flagship product is their printing and shipping service, which offers professionally printed and shipped manuscripts starting at $2.99. This feature integrates with their other applications such as HustleFolio, WordHustler’s project management tool. “It’s not enough to know what happened to the project you just sent out,” says Singleton. “To craft a successful writing career, you have to look at your complete submission history. WordHustler makes it easy to keep track of everything. You can just click on your history and see what happened with a manuscript in an instant.”
Submit Your Work from Anywhere
WordHustler was designed from the ground up to open the literary marketplace to everyone-including writers outside the United States. In the past, submitting to a US market from overseas involved complicated mailing procedures, costly postage, and long periods of waiting for a response. With WordHustler International Edition, writers from around the world can now submit to US markets with ease-no hard-to-find, expensive postage required. WordHustler’s VirtualOffice handles all of the physical correspondence for its international members.
By Writers, for Writers
WordHustler was founded by two writers who were frustrated with the current options for submitting work professionally and decided to build a service to meet that need. “The best part about WordHustler is that it started organically,” says Walls. “We got a response from a short story contest we’d entered a year before. Between all of our spreadsheets and lists we couldn’t figure out what manuscript had been rejected. We were frustrated with the way the system worked. Which was exactly the problem: there wasn’t a system. So we decided to make one.”
Singleton adds, “WordHustler is a community of highly-artistic people who are motivated to get their work out to the world because they no longer face the hassle of the traditional submission process. Our markets are free to everyone and community moderated because we believe that the best way to find trustworthy information is the same way the entire artistic and scientific world advances: through peer-reviewed work.”
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Please direct all press inquires to Dave Sparling. Phone: 310.562.1501 Fax: 310.691.5954 Email: pr@WordHustler.com
