WordHustler — 'Submit to over 5,000 literary agents without leaving your desk'

Mike Carlson's article in the latest UCLA Alumni Magazine (October 2009) brought this interesting site to my attention.

The site was founded by Anne Walls and fellow writer John L. Singleton out of frustration at the age-old, sluggish and labor-intensive manuscript submission process.

Launched in May of last year, around 5,000 people have joined to date.

Wrote Carlson, "After becoming a member you gain access to the thousands of available markets on the WordHustler website, such as publishing houses, literary journals, agents and screenwriting contests. For a small fee, writers can choose as many markets as they'd like and then upload their content, be it a single poem or a full novel. The Wordhustler staff professionally prints it, binds it and mails it for what it would cost to make copies at a local Kinko's."

"The website has been a boon to international writers who no longer have to decipher foreign addresses and postage rates and deal with editors who refuse to mail correspondence across borders."

Also good if you live in the U.S. but aren't anywhere near a Kinko's.

Best of all, Walls is a fellow Bruin  ('01).

GO BRUINS!