Providing Much-Needed Relief For Frustrated Writers
Being a writer is hard work. In addition to the often grueling creative process, writers who wish to be published also have to research markets, request guidelines, prepare cover letters, and track submissions. Finding a potential publisher is a complicated process that causes many writers to throw up their arms in frustration. Many writers love to write, but absolutely hate the business of writing. One has to wonder how many great writers are being stifled because of the administrative tasks required to get their work into print.
(PRWEB) April 29, 2005 -- Being a writer is hard work. In addition to the
often grueling creative process, writers who wish to be published also have to
research markets, request guidelines, prepare cover letters, and track
submissions. Finding a potential publisher is a complicated process that causes
many writers to throw up their arms in frustration. Many writers love to write,
but absolutely hate the business of writing. One has to wonder how many great
writers are being stifled because of the administrative tasks required to get
their work into print.
Enter Writer's Relief, a unique business that
caters to these frustrated authors. "We spend an enormous amount of time
researching and targeting appropriate markets for our clients' work, freeing up
their time to write. In addition, we work with our clients to prepare their
manuscripts to meet industry standards," says Ronnie L. Smith, president and
founder of Writer's Relief. "We help fill in the blanks so that writers have
more time to write."
Smith's team prepares and
submits manuscripts for writers of all kinds. "Most writers are not good at
promoting their own work," says Smith. "They're good at creating; we're great at
marketing." In addition to helping writers prepare book proposals so they can
query agents, Writer's Relief proofreads and submits poetry or short
stories/essays to literary journals.
One of the toughest things that
writers have to deal with is rejection. Writer's Relief has a different way of
looking at the large amount of rejection that most authors have to go through at
some point. "Rejection letters don't bother us," Smith says. "In fact, we view
them as steps bringing a writer closer to publication. Each rejection brings you
closer to acceptance."
Literary journals have a 99
percent rejection rate, but Writer's Relief's track record defies the odds. "You
often have to make 100 submissions before you get one 'yes,'" says Smith. Out of
their 300 current writer clients, Writer's Relief has gotten 268 of them
published.
Writer's Relief was founded eleven years ago by Ronnie L.
Smith, who created the business after a crippling bout with vertigo. As she
slowly recovered through physical and occupational therapy, a friend asked her
to submit the friend's poetry to magazines. "I'd literally crawl to the
computer," Smith says. Much to her friend's delight, the poems were published in
highly-respected journals.
Other clients followed, and a business was
born. Soon, Smith moved from her mother's garage to larger offices. Today she
has hundreds of clients and ten employees, ranging in age from 23 to 81. "Our
business is unusual in that we all still like to come to work every day and so
do our dogs," Smith says.
In addition to maintaining a worker-friendly
job environment, Smith is proud of the work they do. "It makes me happy to give
media voices to people who have none," says Smith, who is fearless when choosing
to take on clients. She makes a special effort to work with writers whose
"voices are traditionally not heard," such as people with disabilities, racial
minorities, feminists, and gays. "Their work has a very particular voice," she
says. "Our writers have a lot to say." Smith plans to continue opening doors for
scribes everywhere.
For more information or to set up an interview with
Ronnie L. Smith, please contact Jay Wilke at 727-443-7115, ext. 223.
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