Safe house

What is Safehouse?
When you send a piece of your work to Publishing House Me this is where is comes to. It doesn't go straight into one of the PHMe houses or rooms because it needs to be read first.

Why?
We need to check that we want to publish it - or whether we think your work could be made better - or whether we want to reject it.  We hope to reject as little of your work as possible.

Who reads and checks my stuff? 
A group of other school students and pupils just like you. At the moment, the youngest is ten and the oldest is seventeen - with lots in between.

How might I become a reader?
The first group were chosen from a random group who came along to help us design the PHMe website. In the coming months we will have writers' workshops where we will invite schools to bring students and pupils - and give them the chance to become a reader.

What does a reader do?
A reader has a user name and password to let them into Safehouse. Apart from the very small group of adults who help run the site, all the decisions about PHMe are made by the registered readers and they are the only ones who have access to the work sent in. When they have read a piece of work they accept it, reject it, or suggest it is changed in some way - like being made shorter or longer.