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While being a writer is tough, getting your work noticed is even tougher. These days, it seems everyone has a story to tell, but that doesn't make surfacing the best work any easier. This is why a group of book editors from HarperCollins Publishers developed authonomy, a community site that caters to unpublished and published authors alike, authonomy invites writers to post their manuscripts for visitors to read and review online, giving them a centralized venue devoted to the craft of writing. With authonomy, users create their own personal page on the site and use it to share and promote their work, authonomy is not for the casual scribe, nor for the faint of heart; all authors posting on authonomy must present at least 10,000 words for the public to read. Also, with the ability to comment on submitted books and recommend favorites, anyone who visits authonomy can become a book critic, authonomy counts the number of recommendations each book receives and ranks the most sought after books on the site, authonomy also recognizes its most devoted visitors by tracking which readers consistently support books that become popular on the site and then honoring them as the most influential trend spotters.