http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: publishing - Recent Posts en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:59:19 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7635 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:44:08 +0000 Isa 7635@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p><em>Do you know if either market to readers and not writers? I know I sound like a broken record, but the communities like goodreads and wattpad are attractive because they are aggressively self-promoting to a reading crowd.</em></p> <p>That has always been fluffyseme's intention from day one. However, it's a bit easier said than done because neither writers or readers are early adopter markets. People tend to have "oh... I'll come back later when you're bigger" attitude. Incidentally, I had the opportunity to meet and talk with the founder of Wattpad a couple of weeks ago. It took them FIVE YEARS to get any traction at all. Both fs and Pandamian are what? Two years old? And I can't speak for Eli on this, but fs is run entirely off my savings ... so pulling in readers at this point is a lot of me recruiting people one by one *lol* while trying to balance everything else~</p> <p>So yeah ^_^;;;;;; I agree with your viewpoint on this issue 100%, but it will take time before fs is able to show results. *sigh* One day though! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7634 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:39:45 +0000 M.E.Traylor 7634@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've checked out wattpad after SgL mentioned it because of its large reader base. It looks like it has a lot to offer for marketing, but not so much for formatting or design. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7633 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:06:09 +0000 Tim Sevenhuysen 7633@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>There's Wattpad, too. <a href="http://www.wattpad.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wattpad.com/</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7632 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:31:35 +0000 M.E.Traylor 7632@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I also just found out about <a href="http://pressbooks.com/wp-signup.php">Pressbooks</a>, which has a similar approach to Pandamian, but is built on wordpress. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7621 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:00:19 +0000 Regina 7621@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Wow. That's amazing, really. I'm so glad to hear that someone's finally waking up and realize they can't ignore that the face of publishing is changing. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7619 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:49:14 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7619@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It is not too much to ask! Yes, I am getting an adavance, and no, things were not complicated by it being posted online at all. The press realizes (correctly) that there's an entire other market segment the online serial hasn't reached, and that's the one they serve, so. :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7617 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:44:16 +0000 Tim Sevenhuysen 7617@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Congratulations! I hope it sells well.</p> <p>If it isn't too much info to ask, are you getting an advance, or just straight royalties, or...? Were things complicated by the fact that you had posted this all online at one point? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7605 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:35:39 +0000 Erin Klitzke 7605@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Very awesome! Congrats (just like everyone else said). </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7602 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:56:35 +0000 M.E.Traylor 7602@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <blockquote><p>Do you know if either market to readers and not writers?</p></blockquote> <p>I honestly have no idea, at least as specific as you're looking at. I was looking at it mainly from a writer's perspective, ease of use, presentation, etc. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7601 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:36:50 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7601@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Oh I cheerfully went to them and pitched it, and then mailed them the manuscript. I am not shy! &gt;.&gt; </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7600 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:57:04 +0000 SgL 7600@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I seem to recall that Pandamian was going to integrate ebook conversion into its site... that's something tremendously helpful for folks who are thinking of porting their work to the ebook market later and don't want to fuss with stuff. (That said, I think CAlibre and smashwords do a decent enough job and so would encourage folks to look at them when they get to that point.)</p> <p>Do you know if either market to readers and not writers? I know I sound like a broken record, but the communities like goodreads and wattpad are attractive because they are aggressively self-promoting to a reading crowd. I don't know what goodreads stats are, but wattpad is boasting impressive numbers and providing data that suggests that the majority of people using them as a central point are readers, not writers. It also doesn't hurt that they have been financed to market. Been seeing them aggressively shopping themselves out to various tech-e journals and such as well as authors like Margaret Atwood.</p> <p>Wattpad (which I'm more familiar with) also has apps on the mobile phones/tablet systems and that opens up a whole other market of potential readers. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7599 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:46:17 +0000 SgL 7599@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Congrats! If you don't mind me asking, did they find you or did you submit to them? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7598 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:11:11 +0000 Regina 7598@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Wow! How awesome! Congrats! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme#post-7597 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:43:19 +0000 M.E.Traylor 7597@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>For anyone looking for a free, no expertise required platform to publish weblit that's more tailored to the genre than Wordpress, Blogger or the like, I <a href="http://weblit.us/content/weblit-platforms-pandamian-vs-fluffy-seme">wrote a low-down</a> on the strengths and weaknesses of Pandamian and Fluffy-Seme. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/print-rights-sold-for-flight-of-the-godkin-griffin#post-7596 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:30:11 +0000 Chris George 7596@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Congratulations. I hope it's the first of many for you. </p>