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const6 (m)
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@Ndipe
@ Apache77
You people need to see what outside and beyond your nose, below are critique fees for your perusal.
@apache77
You think say na beans to write and get it on a common paperback!
FEES
Short Stories
Up to 2,500 words, £15 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
2,600 - 5,000 words, £30 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
For longer manuscripts, please contact us by email to arrange a fee.
Articles, theses and books for younger children:
Fee calculated in the same way as Short Stories.
Novels
EXTRACTS (All novel manuscripts should be typed in a reasonable-sized font and double-spaced)
Up to 50 pages, £75 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
ENTIRE NOVELS
Up to 80,000 words, £295 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
Up to 100,000 words, £375 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
Up to 120,000 words, £450 CLICK HERE TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD
For longer manuscripts, please contact us by email to arrange a fee.
If you would prefer to pay in monthly instalments, simply let us know and we will arrange it. (This offer is only available to those paying by cheque in UK sterling.)
Nonfiction, Biographies, Memoirs etc.:
Fee calculated in the same way as Novels.
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Critique Fees:
We apologize, but-
From time to time, our rates go up to reflect increases in costs to us. The current rates are effective as of August 23, 2006.
If, however, you have a current quote from us on your project, that quote remains valid. These new rates apply only to new projects.
For many years, we've offered the option for a critique from a second author at a reduced price, this has been a very popular feature, and we'll continue to offer this service; however, we've had to raise the fee for this service in order to keep up with demand.
All listed fees are for one critique from one author (please specify which author you prefer -- see BIOS for individual writing backgrounds); for a second critique, add 70% to the fee for one critique, and both Marian and Wayne will read and evaluate your manuscript.
• Short stories, articles, essays, chapters -
6875 words: $55.00 $1.75 per each additional 275 words
• Novella, books -
16,500 words: $115.00 $1.75 per each additional 275 words
• Novels, books -
33,000 words: $210.00 $1.75 per each additional 275 words
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Poetry:
An evaluation of a poem is generally a combination of critique and editorial suggestions; note that Marian Blue only provides poetry critiques:
$25.00 per 50 lines of poetry.
--For chapbooks and books of poetry, book rates above apply, but this does NOT include individual critiques on every poem.
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Line-by-line editing; because line-by-line editing involves extensive on-the-page editorial comments, only Marian Blue provides this service:
$3.50 per 275 words, in addition to critique fee.
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Book Query (letter and outline): $75.
It's best to contact us to discuss the individual requirements you have according to your book and market.
Tip: Evaluate publisher/agent guidelines and create a proposal based on those guidelines before submitting it to us (and let us know what those guidelines are). There is no "one-size-fits-all" query.
* Rates apply to each manuscript; several short works may not be submitted for the minimum rate.
** Except for poetry, "page" refers to double-spaced typed manuscript page of approximately 275 words.
Why do we go by "the word" rather than "by the page" for fees? Who wants to do math?
We don't, that's for sure--
--but computers have provided us with the ability to control fonts and font sizes-some manuscripts have had as many as 500 words to a page while another might have only 200. In some cases, a "by the page" fee is unfair to the author; at other times, it's unfair to the reader. We hope that math will correct this high-tech problem.
Confused about how to figure your word count? If you are using a word processing program, most provide a spell/grammar check that will also give you a word count. If you are using a program that doesn't give you a word count, count the number of words on three lines on a page, add, divide by three; this will give you the average word count by line. Add up the number of lines on a page for three different pages; divide by three; this will give you the average number of lines per page. Multiply the average number of lines times the average number of words per line; this will give the the average number of words per page. Multiply the average number of words per page times the number of pages, and you'll have the approximate word count of your manuscript. Questions? Don't hesitate to ask us.
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All rights reserved.
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apache77 (m)
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cONST6- LOOK NOBODY IS HERE TO ARGUE WITH You, GO AHEAD AND WHEN THAT BOOK IS ON THE SHELVES BE IT MADRID, lONDON, OR LAGOS I'D BE THE FIRST PEROSN TO BUY IT. i WAS JUST OFFERING UNSOLICITED ADVICE BUT WE OFTEN NEED SUCH ADVICE BRUTTALY FOR IT TO SSINK IN.OFCOURSE AFTER MY BLOG, You MUST HAVE DONE A MENTAL AUDIT, THOUGH You MAY NOT ADMIT IT. You R SHOWING US MAILS OF 2005 AND FEB 2006, ALMOST 2YEARS AGO-WHERE ARE UR CONTRACT PAPERS? GOTTEN A DEAL YET? AND WHO TELLS You THAT BEING PUBLISHED IS THE END OF IT? You HAVE TO SELL COPIES You KNOW? WRITE SOMETHING PEOPLE WOULD BUY, SIMPLE.
IF You HAVE SO MUCH MONEY AS You CLAIM, SELF PUBLISH UR BOOK, PUT IN FOR THE CAINE AND ORANGE PRIZE? WHAT ARE You WAITING FOR? IF You WIN, You R ON A ROLL. HELON HABILLA DID THAT A COUPLE OF YAERS AGO AND HE HAS BEEN HOT EVER SINCE.
AND DONT GO ABOUT TELLING PEOPLE You WORK FOR MOBIL, THE QUALITY OF UR WORK SUGGEST OTHERWISE OR HAVE THEY LOWERED THEIR STANDARDS? MAYBE You R A CORE ENGINEER? DAT WOULD EXPLAIN IT. You DONT HAVE TO VALIDATE URSELF HERE FOR ANYONE, IT SEEMSS AS IF You R STRUGGLING FOR LEGITIMACY IN LITERAY CLIMES.
ANYWAY, AM NOT UR ENEMY, AM WISHING You THE BEST REALLY.
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Banderas (m)
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Const, can you seriously not see the vast schism between your "synopsis", and the one you pasted, (which to be honest I don't even regard as an excellent one)? If you don't, then you really need to go back to the drawing board.
And be aware, there are loads of "firms" on the internet who will charge you to read through your scripts. Agents as you call them. Here's the thing: Agents DON'T publish. So havong an agent does not make you any better that anyone else.
Hey Apache. So, knights in shining armour, what's wrong with that? It's called a theme. Be not deceived, the fact that you write about Nigeria doesn't ensure success. What are you saying, seriously now? Are you saying I need to write about Africa to hit paydirt? With all due respect, this isn't true. Stephen King didn't write about africa.
I write about what I know about, what I've experienced and what I've seen. If that is african, then all well and good. If not, then too bad. I have no family stories about the civil war and the resultant experiences, if I had tried to write the "yellow sun" book, I would have floundered big time.
By the way, Stephen King hasn't won any of these prizes you talk about, yet I bet you that Achebe was never given 35M. I never told you I wanted to win prizes,
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apache77 (m)
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BANDERAS- I LIKE READING UR BLOGS COS ATLEAST You SEEM TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT You R DOING THAN ANYONE ELSE HERE. AM NOT SAYING You MUST WRITE ABOUT NIGERIA OR AFRICA, MA ONLY JUST SAYING THAT AS AN AFRICAN OR NIGERIAN LIVING IN NIGERIA, IT IS MUCH MORE REALISTIC AND EASIER TO DO, CREATIVITY IS ALL ABOUT EXTRAPOLATING REALITY, BUT WHEN You DO THAT FOR CLIMES You'R NOT TOO CONVERSANT WITH AND TRY TO SELL THEM TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, ITS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT. You CAN WRITE ABOUT WHAT EEVERR You WANT, AM NOT DISPUTING THAT, BUT REALLY, LETS BE FRANK, HOW MANY INDIGENT NIGERIANS HAVE SUCCEEDED IN PLACING BOOKS ON THE SHELVES, PUBLISHED BY FOREIGN PUBLISHERS ON THEMES SET IN EUROPE OR MEDITERENEAN? GIVE ME ONE. You SEEM TO BE QUITE KNOWLEDGEABLE, BUT I CAN BET You,You WONT COME UP WITH A NAME.
You SEE, THE WHITEMAN ADOPTS A VERY SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO EVERYTHING HE DOES- HE VISITS LOCATIONS PHYSICALLY, RESEARCHES HIS THEMES, GETS A FEL OF THE NATIVES ANDD BINGO, WHEN HE WRITES A BOOK, HE SELLS MILLIONS OF COPIES- WHEN MICHEAL CRICHTON WROTE THE CONGO, DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY MONTHS HE SPENT IN THE ZAIRE AND DRC? WHY WONT HE BE A SUCCEESS. WHEN WILBUR SMITH WROTE THAT SEMINAR BOOK, THE 7TH SCROLL(HE IS AN AFRICAN ANYWAY- A ZAMBIAN), HE MEANDERED BETWEEN LONDON, EGYTPT AND ETHIOPIA. H WROTE ABOUT AFRICA AND EUROPPE IN SUCH A FASCINATING MANNER THAT THE BOOK HAS BEEN MADE INTO A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE. MAYBE You SHD LOOK FOR THAT BOOK. IT MAY HELP UR VIEW.
DO YOU KNOW FREDERIC FORSYTH WROTE THE DOGS OF WAR DRAWING HEAVILY ON HIS EXPEERINCE IN NIGERIA? MATTER OF FACT, BIAFRA STORYWAS HIS DEBUT WORK AND HIS REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES IN THE PLACES HE WROTE ABOUT CATAPULTED HIM TO THE LEVEL HE IS TODAY
JAMES HADLEY CHASE NEVER VISITED MAERICA EXCEPT A 15MINUTE STOP ONCE SOMEWHEREIN FLORIDA, BUT HE WAS SEVERALLY REFFERED AS THE BRITTISH KING OF THE TOUGH AMERICAN TRADITION. THAT WAS ONE OF THE FEW EXCEPTIONS, BUT THEN THERE ISNT THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE CULTURAALLY BETWEEN AMERICA AND BRITAIN, IS THERE? THEY ARE COUSINS.
ABOUT STEPHEN KING, STEPHEN NEVER WROTE ABOUT AFRICA BECOS HE'S PRROBABLY NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE. I BET IF HE ONLY SPENT 5MINUTES HERE, HE'LL SPOT TONS OF STORIES You SSITTING RIGHT HERE CANT SEEE AND HE'LL BE SMILING TO HIS BANK. AND NO, ACHEBE, ACHEBE NEVER GOT 35MILLION BECAUSE HE IS NOT A COMMERCIAL WRITER- COMMERCIAL WRITERS ARE THE GRISHAMS, THE CLANCYS, THE JK ROWLINGS, THE FORSSYTHS, JACKIE COLLINS WHO EARN MILLIONS FROM ROYALTIES BUT WOULD NEVER WIN A NOBEL. ACHEBE BELONGS TO THE CLASS OF , SSHD I SAY INTELLECTUAL WRITERS LIKE THE SOYINKAS, THE JM COETZE'S, THE MORRISSONS, THE OKRI'S, THE RUSHDIE'S- MEN WHO KEEEP WINNING PRIZES LEEFT, RIGHT ANDD CENTRE BUT ARE PROBABLY POOR (COMPARED TO THEIR COMMERCIAL COUNTERPARTS). THERE IS A WIDE GULF BETWEEN THE TWO AND ITS GOOD You'VE DECIDE EARLY ON WHICH DIVIDE You BELONG. LUCK IN WHAT You R DOING ANYWAY
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const6 (m)
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@banderas,
You don't understand what the difference between a QUERY LETTER and a FULL SYNOPSIS.
A query letter for seeking an agent/publisher is suppose to be one page and in that one page you have to put in every essential detail, because they don't have all day to read you work, do you understand now? I suppose you still don't
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Banderas (m)
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Const. I totally feel you, honestly I do. Maybe I was a bit heavy handed in my initial appraisal. I still think you may need to get some more work done with that novel though, what you sent seemed a bit filmy and bland to me,
But then again, I'm not your publisher. I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
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