In Regards to Submissions…

Posted by Michael on Apr 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | 6 comments

 

Hello Everyone,

Over the last few weeks we’ve received several inquiries about submitting your projects to iVerse. We’re very flattered and excited to see so many creators interested in doing projects for the platform. Right now the iVerse website is getting a major overhaul. Including updated submissions policy details.

One thing that I’ve seen far too many people do, though, is obsess over the submissions process. I’ve done it myself in the past. You think “what if I format this wrong and they refuse to even look at it?” So you want to get it EXACTLY right. Some people are that way, anyway. Others just want to know if we’re accepting submissions.

We’re always accepting submissions, but due to the tremendous volume of submissions we receive, we can’t actually give critical responses to every one. I wish we could, but if we were to respond to every single submission we’ve received in the last 6 months, we’d never have put a book out.

Again, we’re amazingly flattered that so many people are interested in working with us, and we greatly appreciate your time and effort. If you’re looking to submit a project to us, we’ll have official submission guidelines up when the site refreshes, but I can sum up the best way to submit to us in one sentence…

Send us whatever it takes to convince us to distribute your work.

There’s an important distinction between distribution and publishing. You’re the publisher. We’re the distributor.

So just send us what you think we need to see. If you bog us down with too much stuff (i.e. 50 pages of script, and 100 character sketches) we’re not going to be able to look at that anytime soon. Keep it brief. Send us as little as possible…but enough to “sell” your project.

Those guidelines should be flexible enough for you to send what you need, but I think are specific enough for us to get the point across that shorter is better.

Keep it brief. Make it awesome.

Thanks for your interest.

Best,

Michael Murphey

iVerse Media