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<body> <p><img border="0" src="http://www.firstwriter.com/images/logo.gif" alt="Find a book publisher or publishing company to get your work published - just read below and then click on the links that we have provided in order to visit our main site"> </p> <p>If you're looking for a publishing company to publish your book, poetry, or story, then you've come to the right place! firstwriter.com is a site dedicated to getting writers into print with the "write" publisher for them. </p> <p>firstwriter.com includes all kinds of resources to help creative writing of all types find its proper home. </p> <p>To find a <a href="http://www.firstwriter.com/">publisher</a> interested in <a href="http://www.firstwriter.com">publishing your book</a> or other <a href="http://www.firstwriter.com">writing</a> visit our main site. </p> <p>Here are some tips included on the site:</p> <font face="Arial" size="2">All too often, potentially brilliant pieces are discarded simply because they appear amateurish, all for the sake of a little time and effort spent getting the details right - don't let your manuscript be one of those!</font> <ul> <li><font face="Arial" size="2">Don't let your work down with silly errors. Typing errors and poorly thought out sentence construction might make an editor laugh but they won't make them accept your work. Spell checkers won't pick up on common mistakes like there / their or your / you're, and grammar checkers won't help you with issues like which quotation marks to use when, and how to punctuate around brackets. The key message is to <i>always</i> have your work proof-read <i>by a professional</i>. Editors are trained to pick out little mistakes that most people wouldn't even recognise, so this is imperative in order to get your work up to their standards. For details of available proof reading services (and some hilarious misprints demonstrating the dangers of <i>not</i> proof reading)</font></li> <li><font face="Arial" size="2">Due to the volume of submissions editors receive it is rare to get detailed feedback on your work, but without feedback you can't learn what editors are looking for and how to get your work published - this is the problem which leads to so many potential writers spending their whole lives writing aimlessly, going round in circles, piling up the rejections and never learning how to make that crucial breakthrough. To avoid this you can submit your work to editors for critical appraisals of your work. They'll give you handy hints and tips, proof read your work, and point you in the right direction at the same time. It doesn't cost the Earth, but it could be the difference between getting published and not! </font></li> </ul> <font face="Arial" size="2">Style is a very subjective thing, and what works for one person won't necessarily for another, but there are nevertheless a few basic, general rules you can adhere to in order to make your writing that little bit more editor-friendly.</font> <ul> <li><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Adjectives: </b>a dead giveaway for amateur writing is that there are always far too many adjectives. A door is never simply 'a door', but always 'a big, imposing, rust-ridden door'. A good exercise is to go through your work and strip out all the adjectives, then set yourself a quota (say two adjectives per page). You'll find that by thinking so carefully about each adjective you'll make much better use of them, and the rest of the text, once simplified by the removal of excess adjectives, will flow much better. The overall result will seem far more professional, and will be far more likely to be accepted by an editor.<br> </font></li> </ul> <p>The contents of the firstwriter.com website:<center> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="250" bgColor="#ffffff" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="middle" width="50"><a href="http://www.copyrightregistrationservice.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Copyright Registration Service - Click here for more information or to register work" src="http://www.firstwriter.com/images/CRSseal_50.gif" border="0" width="50" height="50"></a></td> <td align="middle" width="200"> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Registered with the <b>IP Rights Office<br> Copyright Registration Service<br> </b>Ref: <a style="COLOR: #0000ff" href="http://www.copyrightregistrationservice.com/cgi-bin/verify.cgi?crsnum=209635682" target="_blank">209635682</a></font></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> <p>  <p> </p> </body>