NovelMaker.com - Network for Literary Pursuits

NovelMaker is a social network for the literary set. Unrecognized authors, struggling poets, readers, editors, and critics even are invited to take part in this 'first truly interactive [lettered] community'. The first thing that catches the eye is the rather desperately in the need of a make over site design. It's not fresh enough, having the feel of a well worn, musty book. But you can't judge a book by its cover, now can you? The social features, and the possibility for exposure, structured criticism and interesting reads, makes up for the lack of aesthetic panache. Members of the site may upload their manuscripts, adjusting the settings to private or public. Publicly available works may receive critiques, comments, ratings, and reviews. Manuscripts are kept on site for a year, unless you advise otherwise. If your book or tome happens to be picked up by a publisher you're contractually bound to give NovelMaker 1% of the gross revenue from the sale of your literary creation. You can also self publish using the site's tools. Some books have been recorded using TextAloud, so you can listen to them if that's your thing. To read and upload works, registration is required.

"NovelMaker.com is the world's first truly interactive community for fiction writers, readers, critics, literary agents, editors, and publishers.

Authors can upload to NovelMaker.com their completed works, or works-in-progress, and receive editorial suggestions, comments, reviews, and ratings. Those reviews and ratings may take new and unpublished writers into a realm never before accessible to them - a large, interactive community participating with them in the creation, and potential commercial success, of new works of fiction."

NovelMaker has potential. The social writing site isn't yet an oversaturated market place; still there's room for improvements. However, it does give writers a place to publish their work and get feedback from their peers, without charge. Ultimately, it's a good way get a start in the literary world.

Will the site add more ways to upload manuscripts—besides PDF's and Word files? Is a site re-design in the works? Will they change the results display and add more search options?