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YouWriteOn was launched in January 2006 as an online writing circle to help new writers gain critical feedback on their work and improve their chances of getting published. Each month, YouWriteOn's top ten rated opening chapters receive feedback from professional editors working for major publishing houses.[http://www.youwriteon.com view youwriteon.com homepage] and youwriteon professional critiques forum

To participate, writers upload their opening chapters. The chapters are randomly assigned by YouWriteOn to be peer critiqued and rated based on a variety of criteria: character, plot, pace & structure, use of language, narrative voice, dialogue, setting, theme and ideas.

On the first day of each month the five highest rated chapters receive a free professional critique.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4810398.stm BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Chart champions unsigned writers]

Professional critiques

The literary professionals involved with the site who provide feedback for the highest rated opening chapters of YouWriteOn members each month include editors for Bloomsbury Publishing, Random House and Orion Publishing Group.[http://www.youwriteon.com View youwriteon.com] homepage and professional critiques forum on the YWO homepage

Book of the Year Award

At the end of each year, YouWriteOn's literary professionals judge the best opening chapters from the previous twelve months and choose the Book of the Year.

=2007 award.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=YouWriteOn|url=http://www.youwriteon.com/info/book-of-the-year.aspx|title=YouWriteOn Book of Year 2007}}</ref>=

=2008 award=

  • Overall winner: Trilby Kent for Smoke Portrait[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/7269607.stm BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Dorset writer wins web book award]
  • Children’s fiction winner: Wai Ian Mo for Tiger-Mouse

=2009 Award=

  • Overall winner:
  • Children’s fiction winner:

=2010 Award.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=YouWriteOn|url=http://www.youwriteon.com/info/Authors/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-awards-2010.aspx|title=YouWriteOn Book of Year 2010}}</ref>=

=2011 Award.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=YouWriteOn|url=http://www.youwriteon.com/info/YouWriteOnBookAwards/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-2011.aspx|title=YouWriteOn Book of Year 2011}}</ref>=

  • Overall winner: Robbie Smith for The Grower.
  • Children’s fiction winner: Annie Oliver for Scarlett and the Soul Thief.

=2012 Award.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=YouWriteOn|url=http://www.youwriteon.com/info/booknews/book-of-the-year-2012.aspx|title=YouWriteOn Book of Year 2012}}</ref>=

  • Overall winner: John Dylan for Divine Affairs
  • Children’s fiction winner: Mike Hanson for 365 Rooms

=2013 Award.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=YouWriteOn|url=http://www.youwriteon.com/info/YouWriteOnBookAwards/youwriteon-book-of-the-year-2013.aspx|title=YouWriteOn Book of Year 2013}}</ref>=

  • Overall winner: Graeme Shimmin for A Kill in the Morning
  • Children’s fiction winner: Mike Hanson for Jacob Groat & the Ghosts of Warehouse 33

Successes

The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville, overall winner in 2007, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2012.

Katherine Webb, author of bestselling novel The Legacy, was discovered on youwriteon.com by publisher Orion after being, rated as a Top Ten story on youwriteon by members. The Legacy became an Amazon bestseller and Channel 4 TV Book Club winner.[http://www.youwriteon.com view youwriteon.com homepage]

Book of the Year (2007) finalist Douglas Jackson won a six-figure, two-book deal for his novel The Emperor’s Elephant. It was published, as Caligula, by Transworld Publishers in 2008 and Jackson went on to publish several sequels.{{cite web|publisher=Douglas Jackson|url=http://www.douglas-jackson.net/books/|title=Books by Douglas Jackson}}

Third place winner in the children’s category (2007), Bob Burke, secured a deal with The Friday Project for his book The Third Pig Detective Agency.

The Bufflehead Sisters by 2nd place runner-up (2007) Patricia Delois was the #1 recommended novel in Maine Sunday Telegram's '10 must reads for Christmas', and was described as 'the most stunning work of imagination published by a Maine author this year'.[http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2189676,00.html The bookseller: Oct 13 | Review | guardian.co.uk Books]

The Apothecary’s Daughter by Charlotte Betts, overall winner in 2010, was published by Piatkus in 2010.{{cite web|publisher=Charlotte Betts|url=http://www.charlottebetts.com/the-apothecarys-daughter/|title=The Apothecary's Daughter|date=17 December 2010 }}

A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin, overall winner in 2013, was published by Transworld Publishers in 2014.{{cite web|publisher=Graeme Shimmin|url=http://graemeshimmin.com/a-kill-in-the-morning-to-be-published-by-transworld//|title=A Kill in the Morning to be published by Transworld|date=26 June 2013 }}

References

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External links

  • [http://www.youwriteon.com/ You Write On Home Page]
  • [http://www.africareich.com/ Guy Saville/Africa Reich]
  • [http://www.douglas-jackson.net/ Douglas Jackson]
  • [http://www.charlottebetts.com/ Charlotte Betts]
  • [http://graemeshimmin.com Graeme Shimmin]

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