The quick answer is "Yes". We are looking for new writers all the time.
However: we are also looking for authors who can-
work within established guidelines.
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take advice.
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work to deadlines if required.
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and meet our strict quality requirements.
If you think you can do this then read on.
Why Write for Red Herring Games?
- Firstly, and probably most importantly it pays!
Consider this:
A novel can take anything from 6 months to 2 -3 years (or more)to write.
Then you need to find an agent (not an easy task) then the agent needs to find a publisher.
Ignoring any up front payments, the publisher may offer 10% Net royalty payable twice yearly. On an average book retailing at 5.99, assuming the publisher probably sells it at half that to the book shops, and then gives you 10% of that, that still means you get less than 0.30 a copy sold. (Bearing in mind these are totally random figures – not based on anything remotely realistic.)
Assuming you sell 4,000 books a year, then you make a huge £1200!
(But don’t forget the agent has to take a cut of that.)
A typical murder mystery game takes around 17 hours to write.
You need no agent.
Red-herring-games pays you a royalty of 30% on every game sold. (for ease let’s say £4.50)
Assuming you sell 100 games a year then you get £450!
But – let’s say you write 10 different games and they all sell 100 over the year then you get £4500!
And added to that we don’t make you wait that long to get your money – we pay monthly, one month in arrears.
- Secondly, it is a good way of getting your name known as an author.
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Your name and photograph is shown on the website for every game listed.
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Your name as the author is also on the game materials.
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In the publishing business it is always who you know, and this gives you a chance for people to get to know your name.
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Thirdly: we know what you need.
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we have established templates for you to use
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we are very approachable for help and assistance
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we provide an editorial service (free of charge) as well as handling all the transactions and customer support.
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we provide an author forum on our author accessible pages for you to exchange ideas, get feedback and support.
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we offer you the chance to publicise yourself and your other work on our author pages.
Need more information? Then contact us at info@red-herring-games.co.uk |
