Hire Wordhustler.com to Submit Your Work

OK this has got to be the coolest web-based service for writers I've ever seen, and they're locals, so of course I love them doubly now. As a member of Wordhustler.com, they submit your work for you, poetry, fiction, screenplays, you name it. They print, lick, stamp, mail, and even track your submissions. Don't know where to submit, no problem! They have a thing-a-majigee that helps you match your work with places to submit.

I am seething with jealousy that I didn't come up with this idea, and am always impressed with someone who can not only come us with a great idea but actually invest the time and money to make it a reality, especially when it's something groovy for writers.

The one thing I couldn't discern from the site had to do with pricing. For example, currently their price for a project that is "Under 4 pages (Query Letters, poetry submissions)" is $2.99. I wasn't sure if that meant 2.99 per project per place submitted or 2.99 up to a certain number of places to submit. Perhaps they will chime in here and clear that up. If it is 2.99 per project per place submitted, which I presume it is, I can see that getting rather expensive for the writer, especially someone who is submitting a lot of poetry and short-fiction. In that case, it makes more sense price-wise for the screenwriter or novelist. I'd like to see a subscription based pricing option, where the writer gets X number of submissions a month. It would sure motivate me to keep sending stuff out, if I knew I was paying monthly for it and getting a slightly better bulk deal.

That said, a mere $2.99 in lieu of my time printing, licking, mailing, and tracking seems worth it. In fact, I'm digging into my money jar right now and running to the nearest CoinStar machine. You should check them out too. Run. Hurry. Now.

In their own words:

WordHustler Opens Literary Marketplace to World

California-based WordHustler launches its new service that enables writers all over the world to submit manuscripts to US literary markets without ever having to lick a stamp.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - May 19th, 2008 - WordHustler, a writing services company, today launches a web-based application that enables writers all over the world to submit manuscripts to US literary markets. Formed by two Los Angeles writers, WordHustler, available at www.wordhustler.com, provides writers with a bevy of innovative tools designed to help authors of all genres get their manuscripts into the hands of editors and find publishing success. WordHustler offers a free database of over 3,000 community-moderated US literary markets, a submission tracker, a cover letter composer, a project manager, and OS X dashboard widgets for submission tracking on-the-go.

WordHustler doesn't just help writers find places to publish. Indeed, WordHustler will print, ship, and help writers track manuscripts of any length or genre. "What we've done is significant. The main reason that writers don't send their work out more often is actually quite simple: it's a pain," says John L. Singleton, chief architect and co-founder of WordHustler. "First, you have to write something brilliant. Then there's the costly printing, postage, and SASEs. When you're all done you still have to track those submissions and follow up. Otherwise it just ends up wasting a lot of time and money. We invented WordHustler so writers could spend their time writing."