Text Box: Understanding The Writer's Edge Process
Flowchart: Process: You get a Book Information Form from the web site and prepare a package of sample chapters. This is mailed with your fee of $95 to the Writer's Edge in Wheaton, Ill (not returnable). Check "tracking" on the website to confirm arrival. The Wheaton staff assigns a reviewer to evaluate your proposal and assess its publishability. This takes about 3-4 weeks. The reviewer communicates back to you by postal mail.
Flowchart: Process: Your summary descriptions, modified and edited by staff, are incorporated into a monthly report describing the key features of your book. You see this a few days before month-end in a "confirmation email" checking the facts with you before final printouts of the report. You can fix errors at that time but Writer's Edge manages the wording for publishers. The report is mailed. Now it's up to the publishers.
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Flowchart: Process: The book proposal you have submitted is added to the Writer's Edge web display ("Book Bank") where is will stay for up to five years. Writers can update and change their descriptions and address on that web page. The mailed report is final. You can upload a sample of your writing ("Writer's Voice"). All your contacts with editors can cite the acceptance by Writer's Edge, which may add some credibility, and you can refer interested editors to your sample prose on the Writer's Voice page. At this point, The Writer's Edge Service has fulfilled its role in your book's future.