But we don't bury your work under masses of manuscripts.  We make your work as visible as that of the next writer for the people that count - agents and publishers.  We also know that it costs agents and publishers time and money to discover new writers.  So we designed our site to meet their business needs.  Our search engine and work organizer help agents and publishers evaluate manuscripts quickly and effectively.  Our software tracks what they've read and clears unwanted manuscripts out of the way.  It lets agents and publishers share and discuss your work with colleagues at the touch of a button.  It puts them in touch with you quickly if they like your work.

By offering agents and publishers these time- and cost-saving functions (at no charge, with no fancy software to buy or install) we hope to increase your chances of being noticed.

We also maximize your exposure to agents and publishers by showcasing your manuscripts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, worldwide, so you can sell your work to any publisher, anywhere.

The core of our strategy to attract agents and publishers is summed up in two words: fast and free.

Free means no fees.  Fast refers to software we designed to ensure agents and publishers get to the work that interests them quickly and efficiently.

We provide agents and publishers with everything you feel they need to know about you and your work.  We process this using high-performance software and present it to them through an efficient work organizer.  And we don't clutter their horizons with stale material.  Our software tracks what agents and publishers have read and what their response is – so they can keep a manuscript under consideration, organize it into folders for later review, forward it to colleagues for comment and follow up, or never see it again - all at the touch of a button.

In a nutshell, we offer agents and publishers free access to a large pool of changing literary talent and we give them the means to process it quickly, effectively, at no charge and without leaving their desk.

Biographical information you submit in support of your work is available only to agents and publishers registered with our site.  Your email address is kept strictly confidential and is used by RoseDog for administrative purposes only.  Agents and publishers make their initial contact with you through our messaging system and the next step is up to you.

Your work will be available to more than 150 agents and publishers for less than the cost of copying and submitting your manuscript to just three.

Technical symbols: At this moment, we are unable to accept manuscripts containing mathematical and technical symbols in the actual body of the text.  These symbols may however be used in illustrations.  Our instructions for submitting manuscripts and illustrations are simple and clear and we guide you through the whole process.

Poetry: The software we developed to receive and post incoming manuscripts without human intervention makes it impossible to represent complex line patterns.  Poets that are happy with the way we format our manuscripts (see the next FAQ) are warmly encouraged to showcase their work.

So we resolved the problem by developing software to receive and post your manuscript to our showcase without human intervention. This permits us to showcase large amounts of work at little cost to writers.

As part of this process, all manuscripts are therefore showcased in "plain text". This means that formatting such as bolding, underlining, and italics is not seen. We are confident writers will consider this a very fair trade-off for low-cost and equal showcasing of their work. We invite you to visit our showcase to see the results for yourself.

Also, if an agent or publisher opens your work on Tuesday, feels it is not what he or she is looking for and excludes it from all future searches, your revised version, submitted on Friday will continue to be excluded.

This makes simple business sense – agents and publishers don't want to review work more than once and a few minor changes are unlikely to influence their original opinion.

First we ask you to register as a Member.  This provides us with the contact information we need to receive work from you.  (You membership number also authorizes you to post new work, update your current work, remove your work from the showcase, receive messages from agents, publishers and readers, and check interest in your work through your Account Statement.)

Next, we ask you a series of questions designed to elicit information on your work and your background as a writer.  Your responses to these questions feed the search engine and work organizer which help agents and publishers get to the kind of writers and writing they are interested in fast and efficiently.

Then you send us your manuscript via email.  We explain exactly how to do this – it's simple and efficient.  Providing all the appropriate steps are taken by you, we undertake to showcase your work 24-48 hours after receiving it.