Welcome to The Frontlist
We are not currently accepting new submissions whilst we clear a backlog of reviews.
The Frontlist was started by a small group of web developers with experience in developing community sites. Two years ago we recognised the potential of a community site that enables talented writers to expose writing to agents and publishers. We developed the Frontlist, with the aim of improving upon the way that unsolicited manuscripts are submitted and considered.
We wanted to do three things. First, we wanted to allow a community of writers to self-select promising work. Second we wanted writers to be able to gain detailed feedback on their work as part of the submissions process. Third, we wanted to tie in with agents and publishers to ensure that good quality work bypasses the slushpile to be considered seriously by an agent or publisher that specialised the work's genre.
Writers, upon signing up to The Frontlist, will be able to submit sample chapters of work that they are looking to publish. They will then be invited to provide detailed critiques on several pieces of work. Once they have finished this, their own work will go up for critique. Work that achieves a score above a threshold will be fast-tracked to the desk of a respected agent or publisher who specialises in the work's genre.
24 Apr 2007
Improvements in the pipeline.
We are now now starting to flesh out the requirements for a new improved version of the site. Perhaps the biggest change will be full support for a community of 'super reviewers' to help us to speed up the reviewing process (super reviewer volunteers may contact us at workwithus@thefrontlist.com)
There will also be a range of usability changes. Reviewers will be able to print their submissions in a format that will make it much easier to read work offline. Annotations will be colour coded, so that it's easier to differentiate between comments from different reviewers. We'll also improve our notification service, so that writers are able to instantly get new reviews posted to them. We've had a few comments that writers do not yet get a full sense of community. So we're going to look into implementing private messaging and perhaps forums so that those who wish to can get in contact with each other.
25 Mar 2007
More submissions over the threshold!
Over the last couple of months, we've seen several great pieces of work nudge above the threshold. That takes our total of twelve pieces from around 300 that have been passed on to either AM Heath or The Friday Project for consideration. Under General Fiction we'd like to extend our congratulations to Dr Tony Judge for SIROCCO EXPRESS, Iain Manson for JEZIRA, Elizabeth Stone for ONE DAY AT A TIME. A couple of Historical submissions have also been positively received: Terry Morgan's A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE and Bruce MacBain's ODIN'S CHILD. In the Literary category, two pieces have been passed on: Kate Ling's SEA SNAKES and Jude Cook's BYRON EASY.
25 Jan 2007
Congratulations to Paul Emanuelli and Alexandra Seagrave
Each have had their work reviewed and have achieved a score above the threshold. Paul twice submitted extracts from his historical novel AVON STREET. After extremely positive reviews from the first submission, Paul resubmitted and attained a score above the 200 threshold. Alexandra Seagrave also enjoyed positive reviews for her novel THE WOMEN WHO LEFT HER CHILDREN. She has submitted a second piece that has been distributed to Frontlist users.
Paul's work has been sent to AM Heath, and Alexandra's work has been sent to The Friday Project.
The Frontlist is your new route to serious consideration by a respected publisher. If you write well, and have a finished, polished piece of fiction that you feel is worthy of publication, then submit it here. If it is good, it will get noticed. For free.