I need to ask a dumb question about submitting direct to publishers like Snowbooks.
If you are lucky enough to be accepted for publication do they have an editor who helps you polish the MS? I assume it's not like Publish America, a print on demand type thing?

Naomi - if you go to Dee's link at the top, then click on "Snowblog" in the top right corner, you can scroll down to see them.

Gillian - I'm not sure how much Snowbooks help polish the MS, but it's not POD - they are "proper" publishers, and really highly respected, so worth submitting to.

Caro

Thanks Caro.
It'll be fun reading them

- NaomiM

G, they're definitely not a POD publisher!!

Thanks!

I'm snowcase # 7!

Well done, Dafyd!

Gillian, at the risk of looking like I've done a site search for entries about Snowbooks (!!), here's what Scott Pack (ex head buyer for Waterstone's says about them):

http://www.writewords.org.uk/forum/48_84773.asp

thanks for the flag Dee. Have sent my submission and its on the snowcase #9.

Juliet

Thanks for the link Sarah!

I'm on there too now - number 12! This is turning into a WW showcase!...

Hee hee. WW is sooooo taking over the world.

Thanks Dee. I'm Snowcase #8

Susanna

I've just sent mine.....yikes....

Another good thing about this is that it gives a chance for unpublished writers to read other unpublished fiction, and hence gain some insight into how publishers decide what they are interested in.

I don't know if Emma is currently posting up everything she receives or just picking the ones she likes - as more entries get sent in, it will no doubt have to be the latter - but the standard seems pretty high. There are quite a few that just Aren't My Sort of Thing, and a couple that I really like even if they have naughty things like adverbs in. That doesn't mean that any are "better" than others, and I guess that's what publishers & agents face every day.

Stating the obvious perhaps, but I find it some consolation.

Caro

Yay, I'm number 15. That'll be one of my lottery balls on Saturday