Overview of problem with current submission management services and how Loudlever solves them.

1. Loudlever

2. Richard Luck Founder: Loudlever Publisher: Pif Magazine

4. challenges

5. new press = no press no name recognition no track record receive lots of poor submissions high school sweetheart love poems … in iambic pentameter … finding good writers is expensive (Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, etc.)

7. 5% are published

8. with 300 subs a month staff of 5 spends 4 weeks to find 60 works 30 can’t verify rights 15 are shelved 15 are published

9. publishing is inefficient

10. take the haystack to find the needle month after month after month

11. industry is fragmented

12. email = submission tool shotgun submissions

13. no external rules filters length? genre? reading period? simultaneous submission?

14. no central ‘rights’ database does the writer own it? can a publisher monetize it?

15. what about the writer?

16. which publisher? read each publication befriend the editor use a directory

17. submission? was it received? when will they respond? is it right for them? what now?

18. is there a different way?

19. publishers like the ‘known’

20. Gordon Lish = Amy Hempel

21. Pif Magazine = storySouth + Missouri Review + January Magazine

22. Loudlever help writers and publishers find each other faster and manage relationships better

23. for publishers enforce specific genres and lengths where writer has rights to work prevent simultaneous submissions only during reading periods help publishers manage what they own discover new writers outside submission stream

24. for writers discover new publishing markets send work to right publisher, at right address, at right time auto-manage rejections/acceptances help writers know what they own

25. Loudlever Creativity. Accelerated.