BALTIMORE, Sept. 16, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- "After only eight months, we've changed the landscape for writers and readers. NovelMaker.com is getting the attention it deserves," said Henry D. Felton, Chairman of NovelMaker.com.
NovelMaker.com recently received the 2008 American Graphic Design Award. "Out of more than 10,000 entries, NovelMaker.com won this prestigious award. Our hats off to Solnet Network & Web Services, which designed our site and helped boost our services to writers to new highs," Christopher Olander, CEO, added.
Recently, NovelMaker.com inaugurated several initiatives:
-- Bookstore. Writers who self-publish through NovelMaker are
featured in the site's Bookstore, and are placed into the
Barnes & Noble and Amazon on-line catalogues.
-- MyPlace. NovelMaker users immediately go to their own MyPlace,
where they can upload pictures, their profile information, and
start their own blogs, with the ability to search for friends
and invite friends. MyPlace pages of authors show the
manuscripts they have uploaded to the site.
-- Literary Agent Search. NovelMaker's new feature gives authors
the ability to find only those agents who represent the
author's type of book, and offers its authors the ability to
download a file containing the contact information, submission
criteria, and other relevant information about only those
agents who represent an author's type of book.
-- Nonfiction. NovelMaker is for writers of nonfiction as well
as fiction -- family histories, spiritual and religious,
autobiography, history, and business works can be uploaded,
rated, and reviewed -- without charge -- as well as printed
and published through NovelMaker.
-- Companion Sites. NovelMaker has 14 newly created companion
sites, from fiction genres such as science fiction and romance
fiction, to nonfiction genres such as self-help and family
histories.
Henry Felton, NovelMaker's Chairman, said that these new developments, added to NovelMaker's original functionality, create a unique experience. "We have competitors that offer some of what we offer," Mr. Felton said. "But nowhere on the Internet can an author or reader interested in new fiction and nonfiction find everything we offer. We don't offer contests or gimmicks or expensive 'package deals.' No literary Internet site can make this claim. We do. We look forward to welcoming millions of users in the coming year."