GRANTS: Book Author Grant Award Form

Writer Services.net is proud and excited to announce the launching of it's first annual GRANT PROGRAM*!

These grants have been made possible in order to help aspiring authors who fit the specific criteria achieve their dreams of having a book written and even published. For the year 2008, three grant awards valued up to $10,000 each have been made available.

Producing a book is a major undertaking. In many ways it is equivalent to creating a new product. There are many facets to producing a high-quality, professional book. When self-publishing: things like editing, proofreading, cover design, printing and marketing expertise are required. And if traditional publishing: aspiring authors minimally need a powerful book proposal. The costs can be anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000 or more, depending on the book's requirements and specifications.

As WriterServices.net exists to help aspiring authors achieve success with their book dreams, it is absolutely essential that true professionals are chosen for ALL tasks within the book creation process. This grant program will make it possible for some individuals to be able to afford such professional services. It has been specifically designed to help those who have a burning desire to have a book written and published but need additional funds to add to their existing book budgets in order to make their dreams come true.

If you are serious about getting your book written and published, and you have an existing budget for self publishing but need an additional grant to make it happen, fill out the form below.

NOTE: The form must be filled out completely to be considered for one of our grants. Incomplete forms will be rejected without review.

Full Name: Company: Address: City: State: Zip Code: Phone 1: Phone 2: E-Mail: Please confirm your e-mail: 1. What genre would your book be in if published? Fiction Nonfiction Historical Fiction Biography Autobiography Poetry Fantasy Other (please explain): 2. My manuscript is: Already Written 25% Written 50% Written 75% Written Not written yet but the idea is excellent (please explain) 3. As regards my manuscript/book, I plan to: Write it myself Have it written by a professional book writer Collaborate with a professional book writer Other (please explain) 4. How many pages will your manuscript be? (8-1/2"x11", double-spaced pages) 100-200 201-300 301-400 401-500 501-600 601-700 701-800 901-1000 Other (please explain) 5. Please give us a brief synopsis of your book idea: 6. What symbolizes success? 7. If you could be anything, what would you be? 8. If you could do anything, what would you do? 9. If you could have anything, what would you have? 10. What would have to happen in order for you to achieve your BE, DO and HAVE above? 11. Do you believe that being an author of a book would help you to be more successful? Yes No 12. Why haven't you written/published a book? 13. What would be the reason(s) that you would have a book made? 14. Producing a book is a major endeavor. There are many facets, such as (when self-publishing) editing, proofreading, cover design, printing..., and (if traditional publishing) minimally a book proposal. The costs can be anywhere from $5000 to $25,000 or more, depending on the book's requirements and specifications. If you were awarded a grant to help you complete your book and there were costs remaining to finish the task, would you have the financial wherewithal to be able to complete your book endeavor? No Yes, up to: $2,500 $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 Other (please explain) 15. What is your profession? 16. What is your ultimate goal with your business/career? 17. What is your ultimate goal in life? 18. a) Are you satisfied with your level of success in your career/business? Yes No 19. b) Why? 20. How do you feel about your future? Worried Anxious Indifferent Excited Ecstatic Other (please explain): 21. What benefit(s) do you feel you would get from having a book published? 22. How valuable would it be for you to able to get all of your book writing and publishing services all under one roof? Extremely Valuable Very Valuable Fairly Valuable Not Very Valuable Not at all Valuable 23. How did you find us? Please Select One ----> Alltheweb AltaVista America Online AOLFind Ask Jeeves Excite Google Hotbot Infoseek Lycos MSN Northern Lights Kennedy-Lillo Associates Snap Web Crawler Yahoo! Banner Ad From a Friend Another Website News Group Magazine/Newspaper Postcard Brochure Promotional Letter Other

*Terms of the WriterServices.net Grant Participation:

• Grants are to be subsidized for WriterServices.net book writing, editing and other book production activities, and WriterServices.net publishing programs only.
• Grants are not redeemable/exchangeable for currency.
• Grants will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis, under the specific and direct discretion of WriterServices.net and/or its constituents.
• If the grant to be awarded is for book writing: 1) a signed contract between author and writer is mandatory and 2) the writer must be approved by WriterServices.net for grant to be awarded.
• If the grant is to be awarded is for publishing: 1) a signed contract between author and printer is mandatory and 2) the printer must be approved by WriterServices.net in order for grant to be awarded.
• By filling out this form, applicants agree to abide by WriterServices.net's decision process and that any action of dispute made by an applicant shall automatically invalidate and terminate applicant's participation for this grant program.
• All decisions by Writer Services are final and not contestable.