by Travis Casey

Created on: November 24, 2010

It can be difficult to get honest reviews of your hard graft. Of course Helium.com has a forum for posting articles for review. But there is no guarantee that you will receive any feedback or the level of critiquing you may receive. You are at the mercy of someone donating their time for your cause.

Another website with feedback potential is Authonomy.com. It is a good site where you can upload a book (minimum 10,000 words) and anyone can read it online and are free to offer comments. Once again, it is not mandatory. Your book moves up the rankings by other members "backing" your book. But there are many games being played by members for book backing. Members may back your book, send you a comment of how great it is without offering any substance and ask you to back their book in return. You will receive some feedback but very little pertains to how you may go about improving it.

And then there is Triggerstreet.com. http://www.triggerstreet.com/gyrobase/index This site is guaranteed to give you feedback but it is also mandatory that you give feedback. And there are no shortcuts.

You cannot upload your book until you have reviewed two books by other members. You must request a book assignment and once you have been assigned a book to review you are denied access to reviews written by other members regarding that book so you cannot incorporate other people's opinions into your review. You must submit a minimum of a 100 word review but many reviews go to well over 1,000 words. Then there is a matter of rating the book for concept, story, structure, characters, dialogue and overall as either poor, below average, average, good or excellent. Once you submit your review you have to take a test. It's a fairly simple ten question test, multiple choice and true or false, about the book. This ensures that the reviewer has actually read the book. If you fail the test twice, or score below 70% on the test, you do not receive credit for the review.

You earn credits for doing a honest review. Then, every time someone reviews your book, you lose one credit. It is not possible to do two reviews and get your book reviewed ten times. It's one for one as an incentive to keep doing reviews. Your book does not receive a rating until it has been reviewed three times but you can see each individual review as it is submitted.

The site is quite strict on layouts for submissions and for reviews. There is even a Hall of Justice if you feel that the review was not genuine or honest.

Although the criteria changes for different projects, Triggerstreet.com also accepts submissions for Plays, Screenplays, Short Films, Comics and Short Stories as well as Books. It is an amazing site and guaranteed to get you feedback; provided you give it as well.

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