JohnAtWordHustler
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Hi Gillhoughly,
Thanks for your response and thanks for taking an interest in improving WordHustler. You've certainly raised some interesting points and we will be working to make the answers to your questions more readily available on our site. To answer one of your questions right away: all correspondence goes back to the writer unless they elect otherwise.
It's interesting that you see our service as a luxury item geared toward only the most successful, established writers. On the contrary, our service is geared toward, and in fact being used by, up-and-coming writers just like Rizzo: people with day jobs, people who have to pay the rent with non-writing-related income, and people who simply don't have time to go to the post office and run errands everyday because they have to go to work. Your point about established writers using agents to do this type of work was quite astute. Indeed, WordHustler is all about helping writers get to that point.
From Your Post:
"The cost for my 400p. MS was about 30.00 with postage, tax, and gas. Your cost would have been about 40.00."
Glad to see you've gone over our site again and corrected the initial cost analysis you posted here earlier. What you don't mention here are all of the other things we include (free SASE, organized submission tracking, mailing supplies, etc) and most importantly, the time all of this took you. Let's not discount the fact that time is money. At WordHustler, we believe that the most precious resource a writer has is time. Especially when you are just starting out.
Don't forget Gillhoughly, you have 20 years of literary experience and it sounds like your full time job is writing and editing. That's truly great. But everyone else who is still out there hustling (G-rated hustling, but hustling nonetheless) needs time. Time is something that you have in spades, and something we work very hard to affordably provide for our clients.
Again, thanks for taking the time to write, G, and thanks for sharing your experiences. Even though we've had a bit of a rocky start, you are always welcome over at WordHustler, even if just to use our database for market research.
All Best,
JLS
Co-Founder/Chief Architect
[email protected]
Hi Gillhoughly,
Thanks for your response and thanks for taking an interest in improving WordHustler. You've certainly raised some interesting points and we will be working to make the answers to your questions more readily available on our site. To answer one of your questions right away: all correspondence goes back to the writer unless they elect otherwise.
It's interesting that you see our service as a luxury item geared toward only the most successful, established writers. On the contrary, our service is geared toward, and in fact being used by, up-and-coming writers just like Rizzo: people with day jobs, people who have to pay the rent with non-writing-related income, and people who simply don't have time to go to the post office and run errands everyday because they have to go to work. Your point about established writers using agents to do this type of work was quite astute. Indeed, WordHustler is all about helping writers get to that point.
From Your Post:
"The cost for my 400p. MS was about 30.00 with postage, tax, and gas. Your cost would have been about 40.00."
Glad to see you've gone over our site again and corrected the initial cost analysis you posted here earlier. What you don't mention here are all of the other things we include (free SASE, organized submission tracking, mailing supplies, etc) and most importantly, the time all of this took you. Let's not discount the fact that time is money. At WordHustler, we believe that the most precious resource a writer has is time. Especially when you are just starting out.
Don't forget Gillhoughly, you have 20 years of literary experience and it sounds like your full time job is writing and editing. That's truly great. But everyone else who is still out there hustling (G-rated hustling, but hustling nonetheless) needs time. Time is something that you have in spades, and something we work very hard to affordably provide for our clients.
Again, thanks for taking the time to write, G, and thanks for sharing your experiences. Even though we've had a bit of a rocky start, you are always welcome over at WordHustler, even if just to use our database for market research.
All Best,
JLS
Co-Founder/Chief Architect
[email protected]