December 30, 2007 – 3:55 pm
Someone on a discussion board referred to Creative Byline as a “shortcut” in a derogatory way. The definition of shortcut is “a method, procedure, policy, etc., that reduces the time or energy needed to accomplish something.” So yes, Creative Byline is a shortcut—in the same way that a washing machine is a shortcut to washing [...]
December 27, 2007 – 11:53 am
There’ve been some questions popping up on various discussion boards that we want to answer here.
If Creative Byline is in beta, can I trust it? Yes! Beta means different things to different people. To us, it means that the site is fully functional but you might occasionally find a broken link or think of a [...]
October 22, 2007 – 10:39 am
When we tell people outside of publishing about how Creative Byline uses software to match up manuscripts and editors, they invariably ask, “You mean something like that doesn’t already exist?” To them, using technology in this way is a no-brainer.
While there is a market for manuscripts, until now, there hasn’t been a marketplace. There hasn’t been a centralized place–real or [...]
October 10, 2007 – 9:52 pm
Creative Byline founder and CEO Brad MacLean didn’t exactly dream of working in publishing. He got an engineering degree from University of Michigan but has never held an engineering job. (“It taught me a way of thinking and approaching problems,” he says, when asked why he bothered.) He worked in the computer industry for awhile [...]
October 8, 2007 – 11:45 am
Someone recently asked us who our first readers are. Eighty percent of first readers have some type of advance writing or literature degree. They work at the direction of Creative Byline’s editorial director using specific criteria, which we’ll talk more about in a later post. We’ll supplement those readers with readers who have specialties. Most large [...]
October 5, 2007 – 9:00 am
It’s audacious of us to think we can change the submission process—or it would be, if we hadn’t done our homework. But we have. And we know that editors really do want to receive manuscripts, but only certain kinds of manuscripts, i.e., the ones they happen to be looking for at the moment. So we [...]
October 3, 2007 – 12:07 am
Creative Byline’s online manuscript submission service won’t launch until later this fall, but when it does, here’s how the process will work for writers.
Step 1: Join Creative Byline (free, for a limited time) and post your writer profile—whatever you want editors to know about you. You can post a bio, credentials, awards and memberships, and (if you’ve already been [...]
