Real Readers Decide Your Fate at PageToFame

We are excited to introduce PageToFame, where readers send writers to the top, one page at a time. The new, improved version of the WEbook Vote features multiple rounds of rating, ongoing submissions, and objective, non-competitive scoring.

Here's how it works:

• Start by submitting a short summary of your book idea and the first page of writing. We’ll show your sample to interested readers, and they’ll rate it from 1 to 5.

• If your page meets our threshold for reader appeal, you’ll move on to the next round. You’ll be invited to submit your first chapter, and a literary agent will review your work.

• Writers can start the submission process at any time, and readers can rate whenever they feel like it. If your submission makes it to the next round, you’ll be given a generous deadline to submit the next sample.

• Successful submissions will go through four rounds, ending with a completed book. Submissions move through this process individually -- not in bunches -- thus the competition is ongoing.

How PageToFame can help make your publishing dreams come true?

• Participating literary agents will give serious consideration to representing the most popular books.

• If you succeed in  final round by making the rating threshold, WEbook will work to get you a great commercial publishing deal, either directly or through a participating literary agent.

• A $10,000 prize goes to the first writer to make it to the final round and reach the rating threshold for their full manuscript.

• Submit before February 15th and you’ll be eligible to win one of three $1,000 prizes awarded to the top-rated first pages.

A few important details:

• There is a fee of $4.95 per submission. As long as readers continue to give your work high ratings, this one-time fee can take you all the way to the final round and into the hands of a prominent literary agent.

• Submissions that don’t get high enough ratings to move on to the next round will be removed from rating, so readers will find only the very best work in later rounds.

• Every time a submission makes it to the next round, a participating literary agent provides a professional rating.

• Rating is anonymous and objective. Readers are shown submissions based on their genre preferences. They don’t see authors’ names, and they can’t search for particular submissions to rate.

• Only reader ratings decide which submissions succeed—there is no competition with other submissions. Books that get enough high ratings will advance through the rounds—whether we end up with one book or 5,000 in the final round. Read the PageToFame Guide to learn more.

Click to submit now for the introductory price of $4.95 and get a chance to win a prize of $1,000 or even $10,000! Whether you’re ready to submit or not, be sure to check out other first pages and help choose other top writers. Help make PageToFame a success, and make sure writers like you get the attention you deserve.

--The WEbook Team

Comments

[Lizzythin]

Yeah, it sounds great doesn't it? Well don't put your first page up unless you know "exactly" how many words you have! I started writing mine-(turned on the word count) and there was a line that told me how many words I had left to write. Well guess what? When I had used up the total words accepted-my submission was not excepted! The word counter told me how many words I had had available then it was changed? I paid for the submission already-now what? Thanks!

[Hale]

It's unfortunate that you have offered no contact information for technical support. I just saw one submission that was blank - no page 1.

I also know that the formatting of the early submisssions is different from the most current. Those who waited beyond the first day were offered nice orange text to separate the synopsis from page 1 - I joined early and have bold text, and no such clarity where my page one begins. I think that has left me at a disadvantage since most readers will think my syopsis is my first paragraph - and it is not. There is no one to contact to begin a fair chance to fix it. In future, adding that to FAQ would make this a more pleasant experience. Right now, with all the 1 rankings I see (not only on mine, but others) I'm thinking this is all rigged.

[warriorwitch]

You would be surprised how many people think that "wirting" (anything) consists of merely putting words on paper. Ah ... if only it were so! And quite a few, also believe, that they have a "fantastic" or "unique" story to tell, AND, that they (CAN) tell it. If you tell them that it involves things like; well for instance: "proper spelling" or "punctuation", they'll look at you and say: "That's what Editors' are for!"

I have read alot of the submissions, on the "Page to Fame" and don't mind telling you here, where you can see my name, that almost 100% of what I read, belongs on a site, possibly titled : The Page of Lame.

I have been published in WEbooks first poetic anthology, therefore have had first hand knowledge of their honesty,generosity and forthright dealings, here at WEbook.

Slandering an opportunity such as this (Page to Fame) is not only petty and unprofessional, it could also hurt other, new writers' (like yourself I presume)by giving them doubt, about submitting or even trying at all!

Wake UP people! Ignorance IS NOT bliss!

[Schuyler Thorpe]

But the lesson that we should *all* take in is this: If these people are supposedly "connected" to the publishing industry, why do they even need to charge us $5 just for submitting to an agent?

And the $1,000 prize and the $10,000 is just even more HOKEY.

Has anyone here *gotten* such a prize? How is it awarded? Who is it awarded *from*?

Is the check real or just some gimmick designed to look like the real thing?