Literary magazines have neither the time, nor the money, for the staff necessary to handle the large volume of submissions they receive. And as the pages of manuscript start piling up, stories from the writers they are waiting to hear from are frequently misplaced or lost. Writers begin to call, asking why they haven’t heard about the piece you requested. Editors start searching through piles of envelopes for a manuscript sent six weeks earlier. Editors spend far too much time tracking down submissions and responding to writers’ telephone queries.

Web Ready Submit by Literary Technology can help. Developed by an experienced computer programmer, who is also a fiction writer who knows only too well the frustration of submitting an asked-for manuscript, only to have it get lost in a pile of mail. As a teacher, she also understands the frustration on the other side of the desk, hearing from students who claimed to have dropped off papers, only to have them get lost between their desks and hers. She created Web Ready Submit to simplify life for both editors and writers.