About NovelMaker

NovelMaker.com is the world's first truly interactive community for fiction writers, readers, critics, literary agents, editors, and publishers.

 

 

Authors can upload to NovelMaker.com their completed works, or works-in-progress, and receive editorial suggestions, comments, reviews, and ratings. Those reviews and ratings may take new and unpublished writers into a realm never before accessible to them - a large, interactive community participating with them in the creation, and potential commercial success, of new works.

 

Authors can get instantaneous feedback, cover art, factual information, maps, pictures, and all manner of useful information to advance their literary endeavors to new levels.  Readers can participate in an author's creative process, rate and review an author's work, create a user group to discuss the author's work, or buy the author's completed novel - in paper format or one of several e-book reader formats.

 

Literary agents seek talent, and worthy works of fiction and non-fiction. Until NovelMaker.com, they have relied on over-the-transom submissions, query letters, and word-of-mouth.  But with NovelMaker.com, literary agents can read new works of fiction online, see the results of ratings and reviews by users on our site, and see whose works may be commercially viable - because our large, online community has voted!

 

For editors and publishers, the opportunities are limitless.  We will post their upcoming titles for free, and give them the opportunity to review new works of fiction, provide comments, and, most importantly, see what will sell based on our community response to new works.  What better "testing ground" for an editor looking for the next best-seller?

 

 


NovelMaker’s MISSION

  • Help, inspire, encourage, and give exposure to new, undiscovered writing talent, and provide valuable resources

  • Discover and showcase new writers for readers and agents looking for new and serious fiction

  • Provide a community that gives peer-to-peer criticism and helpful feedback

  • Provide writers the ability to self-publish, without gimmicks or expensive “package deals”

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NovelMaker.com was founded, and is managed, by several principals:

    

Henry Felton

Chairman

Hank is well recognized for his record, leading the successful development and growth of start-up companies.  Recently, he co-founded and became an officer of Novelmaker.com, an internet portal that enables authors to upload their manuscripts free of charge for comment, review and rating by members of the literary community. Since December, 31st, 2007, Hank has been our Chairman. He was the CEO and one of the founders of Avatech Solutions, Inc. (AVSO) – a publicly traded software and professional services company having a network of 20 locations coast-to-coast, headquartered in Owings Mills, MD. He was also the co-founder and former President and COO of Youth Services International, Inc. (YSI).  Under Hank's five-year leadership, YSI grew from a start-up company to a publicly owned, dominant player in the youth care industry with $120 million in annual revenues.  

Previously, Hank was an Executive Vice President at Maryland National Bank (MNB) and a member of its Management Committee. He held a variety of jobs, primarily in the commercial lending area during his 25+ year career in banking. In his last four years at MNB, he led the bank into capital market activities, including $6 billion in asset sales and securitization transactions. 

Christopher Olander

President and CEO
Chris, a self-published writer of fiction, founded and managed a major mid-Atlantic law firm, founded or was on the management team of two Internet companies, and was a senior executive of a public IT services and products company. Chris co-founded a financial and business news web site to provide content from America’s top money managers. He personally recruited Senator George Mitchell, General Brent Scowcroft, Dr. Arthur Laffer (Pres. Reagan’s Chief Economist), Andrew Tobias, Jane Bryant Quinn (syndicated financial columnist), Arnaud de Borchgrave (President, UPI), William Isaac (former FDIC Chairman), Richard Measelle (past worldwide CEO, Arthur Andersen), and Carter Beese (former SEC Commissioner and head of Alex. Brown International), to serve on the company’s Board. Recruited 27-member management team of extraordinary capability.

 

Solnet Network and Web

Solnet Network and Web provides Novelmaker’s web design, database and site support. Solnet's CEO, Russ Dijak, has over 17 years of experience in internet, database, and web technologies. Russ leads an expert team of programmers and designers to provide the best IT/Web services available.

Laura Olander

Director of Publications/Customer Service
Laura has held high-level administrative positions with major corporations throughout her career. In addition to managing our print-on-demand self-publishing services as well as our customer services, she serves as our liaison to Solnet with respect to site development issues. She is an honors graduate of Capital University, a private liberal arts university in Columbus, Ohio, with a B.A. in Psychology and Biology (Pre-Medicine).

 

Dr. Steve Weinstein

Chairman Emeritus

Dr. Weinstein is a writer of fiction, and has self-published his works. He also has a phenomenal track record as academician, inventor, business owner, and entrepreneur. His previous ventures include Regpak, the first computerized hospital admissions program, (marketed by Hoffman La Roche), Communications in Behavioral Biology, the first computer produced scientific journal with selective dissemination funded by the National Science Foundation and published by Academic Press (a division of Harcourt Brace); and CuisineVu, the first consumer product on microfiche.
On December 31, 2007. Steve resigned from his then position of Chairman of the Board for personal reasons. He remains close to the company, is our largest shareholder and actively advises us, but does not hold an official managerial position.

 

 

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