I found out about Pages to Fame on the Intern's wonderful blog.
Pages to Fame looks very interesting. It is a website where you submit the first page of your novel and then people rate it on a 1 to 5 scale. Earn enough good ratings and you'll be requested to send in five pages. More success and you send in 50 pages, and then a complete novel.
Why do it? Pages to Fame promises that real world agents will read your work as it passes up each rung on the ladder. Does it work? No idea--I think it's too new to have had any major success stories yet.
Judging the pages is fun. You get to wade through the slush pile like an agent, quickly deciding if each work has merit or not. You also get to see how your ratings compare to those of other participants.
For now I'm just going to judge. If I like what I see, and don't hear anything fishy about the site, I'll send in a page. Can anyone think of a reason not to?
Would it decrease your credibility among mainstream agents to publish your work in this way? Do you give up, assign, waive, or license any rights to your work via the clickthrough license agreement on this site? Can you pull it down at any time?
ReplyDeleteI'd be very cautious.
I'm with you, Kemp. Definitely won't jump into anything.
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