Ecostamps offers writers two submission
and account types.
The same benefits as basic submissions plus:
Postage for enhanced submissions is $4,
about the cost of paper, printing, envelopes, and postage
for a submission delivered by the U.S. Postal Service
and less than a half gallon of organic hemp milk
or a half pound of shiitake mushrooms.
One dollar ($1)
per enhanced submission goes directly to the market to create a pool of funds
so the editors may pay authors for their work. Postage also provides direct financial
support to literacy programs and scholarships for community writers workshops.
Bottom line:
You're a writer and you (a) want editorial feedback,
(b) recognize most editors are unpaid volunteers and want to support their work and the markets you hope to publish in,
(c) would like to be paid when your work is accepted for publication,
(d) want an opportunity to be awarded a Writer Fellowship
for $2,500, and
(e) want real-time editing and a faster turnaround on submissions,
then you will LOVE enhanced submissions.
Premium accounts provide three primary benefits to writers:
Enhanced Assessments: Basic Assessments
provide writers feedback on the relative strengths and weaknesses
of a submission.
For example, an editor might evaluate the plot of a
submission as an 8, on a scale of 1 to 10, but the dialogue
as a 6, i.e., the dialogue was not quite up to the same
standard as the plot.
Enhanced
Assessments put an evaluation into context given the
other submissions reviewed by the editor.
For example, an Enhanced
Assessment will detail that only 27% of submissions
received a 6 or higher for dialogue,
or, conversely, that only 16% of submissions were evaluated at 6 or lower.
Basic Assessments help authors identify areas to work on to
improve a submission. Enhanced Assessments provide context
to help an author understand how the editor evaluated the
author's work relative to the work of other authors who
have submitted to the market.
Expanded MarketSource Listings: Want to
know how many submissions are in the queue for a market?
Average turnaround time for submissions? Percent of submissions
accepted? How about the percent of basic submissions
accepted vs. enhanced submissions? Or which markets
value crisp dialogue most and which put the greatest
emphasis on conflict, character development or plot?
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
A primary objective of Ecostamps is to provide authors (and editors)
greater insight into the literary marketplace. The expanded
MarketSource listings provide a snapshot of the literary
marketplace today, but will also help to identify and track
trends within and across markets over time.
Priority Review: Submissions in the queue
for review are organized into 4 tiers:
Editors must review all submissions in a higher tier before
reviewing submissions in a lower tier.
For example, if the
queue consists of 10 enhanced submissions from writers with
premium accounts (tier 1), 8 enhanced submissions from writers with
basic accounts (tier 2), and 24 basic submissions from writers
with basic accounts (tier 4), the 10 submissions in the first tier
must be reviewed before the editor can access the submissions
in the second tier or fourth tier.
Bottom line: If you want to know as much
as possible about the markets you hope will publish your work,
you want substantive feedbacks,
and you prefer to expedite the review process, then a Premium
account is for you.
The cost of a Premium account? Less than the cost of purchasing one
box of Cheerios per month. To upgrade your account, log into the
Writers Console and select "Premium Membership" under
"Account" in the main menu.
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