Writers: Would you submit your novel to a contest that will edit, illustrate, publish, market and sell your book for you if you win?

Imagine an online platform where you (writer) submit the first few chapters of a novel you’ve written. A community of other writers and readers will vote on all the submissions and if yours wins, the company provides skilled editors, illustrators, cover designers, voice actors, audiobook recording, digital copy formatting for iBooks/Kindle, paperback prints to be sold in stores, and the advantage of large scale marketing, at no cost to you.

You would maintain all legal ownership of your novel, same as if you were to publish it through any other publisher. You would get very fair royalties from each sale, same as if you went through a publisher (because this would be a standard publishing house).

This would be for writers who have written a draft of a novel, and don’t know how to get it edited, published, printed, recorded, marketed or sold.

What are your thoughts?

Apply this concept to Children’s Books as well.