http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Tag: publishing - Recent Topics en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:31:50 +0000 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-7594 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:57:24 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 7594@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I just signed a contract with a small press for the print rights to my first serial, Flight of the Godkin Griffin. Flight was my first go at crowdfunding back in 2004, back when putting an entire novel up for tips was considered bad business. I'm glad I put it up now!</p> <p>You can read the details here: <a href="http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1022826.html" rel="nofollow">http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/1022826.html</a></p> <p>Just remember... just because you're not being paid now doesn't mean you won't be later! :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/anyone-heard-of-justfiction#post-7472 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:56:49 +0000 Gavin Williams 7472@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Has anyone heard of <a href="http://www.justfiction-edition.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.justfiction-edition.com</a> ? They approached me today about publishing one of my stories. They seem to do e-publishing through amazon and other sites, plus print-to-order through book wholesellers. Has anyone else been contacted or know anything about them?</p> <p>I'm trying to find out what advantages (if any) there are to using their services, when lulu.com and smashwords let you retain dissemination rights and creative control. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/pandamian-in-public-beta#post-6438 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:03:54 +0000 Eli James 6438@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi guys!</p> <p>You may or may not have heard about this, but we've launched Pandamian, a publishing platform for web fiction. (see: <a href="http://pandamian.com" rel="nofollow">http://pandamian.com</a> ).</p> <p>The idea behind it is that writers shouldn't need to spent time on technical issues - and so we plan to handle everything from domain registration to design, comment-spam protection, ebook conversion, etc.</p> <p>(An unofficial one-liner that we keep repeating to ourselves: writers shouldn't need to read a single line of code)</p> <p>Anyway, what we've got up is a public beta, which I'll admit doesn't yet have most of the features we intend to implement. But I'll be very appreciative if you signed up (it's free!) and tell us what you'd like, or would love to see implemented before you'd consider switching to Pandamian.</p> <p>Sign up: <a href="http://pandamian.com" rel="nofollow">http://pandamian.com</a> or Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Pandamian">@pandamian</a> or <a href="http://blog.pandamian.com">Ze Blog </a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/some-guy-with-a-blog-vs-a-real-thing#post-6227 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:03:02 +0000 Alexandra Erin 6227@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Soooooooooooooooooo I suggested in another thread that we should have social media buttons on this site, of the share/like/tweet variety. Probably just the big ones: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. Maybe Digg, but the listings here just don't seem very diggable. This isn't the sort of thing to be dugg.</p> <p>Now, it might seem odd that we'd want people to share the listing here and not the actual story, but there's a matter of context. It's hard to make a weblit site look like anything other than "some person who put up a blog" to someone who doesn't grok weblit. There's the self-publishing stigma, there's the fact that it's not a familiar publishing medium to people, there's the sense that this is something that anyone could just do for themselves and therefore it doesn't count...</p> <p>On the other hand, web portals/directories are very common and well-known. They tell people "This is an established concept. This is a real thing. This is not just something somebody threw together."</p> <p>So, yeah. I think getting sharing buttons on the entries would be a good idea. I also think that a "Read From The Beginning" link that's more prominent on the listings would also be a good idea... we should all make it easy for people to jump to the beginning, but the fewer clicks it takes someone to get where they need to be, the better.</p> <p>(Actually, come to think of it, there needs to be a more prominent link in the listings in the first place... is it just the thumbnail? No matter how natural or intuitive it seems to one person to click on that to get the site, it's not going to be that way to everyone. Put the word "Link" or "Site Link" or "Click To Enter" under it and the listing becomes way more useful.)</p> <p>But, the long and the short of this is that I've been planning to do a big advertising push for Tales of MU in the near future, bigger than I've done in a while and possibly bigger than I've ever done... now that I've had the thought about social media, I'm planning on making half of the ads direct to the listing here instead of the Tales of MU page, at least initially. If I see no benefit I'll stop doing it, but I have an inkling that it will improve things. I'll get fewer hits from the ads that target the listing but I imagine it will result in more readers, because there's a gloss of legitimacy, there's a context, there's the message that says "Web Fiction: It's An Actual Thing!&trade;"</p> <p>And anyone who doesn't find the entry for Tales of MU appealing will still have discovered the WFG.</p> <p>I wonder if anyone else has any thoughts or any relevant experiences relating to this? Has anyone else tried advertising their listing? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/poll-what-do-you-use-to-make-your-web-pages#post-4509 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:41 +0000 Drayco84 4509@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>For anyone that's come by and looked at my site: <a href="http://dragonoftwilight.net" rel="nofollow">http://dragonoftwilight.net</a>, you'll notice one thing... IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP! (Then again, maybe it's just me and I'm using "author vision", where one's own works look like sins against the natural order, despite your best attempts at trying to make something decent and/or beautiful.) Now, I USED to use KompoZer, but I've recently switched over to SeaMonkey Composer, which isn't all that different. </p> <p>So, to the main point, please list your site and what you used to make it. Something like...</p> <p>Site: <a href="http://dragonoftwilight.net" rel="nofollow">http://dragonoftwilight.net</a><br /> Tool: SeaMonkey </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/constellation-digital#post-5871 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:01:02 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5871@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Has anyone heard anything about Constellation Digital? Apparently they handle every form of self-publishing (from e-books to multiple sites... every possible one, from what I can see) to short run and print-on-demand. And they consolidate all the sales and royalty data for you.</p> <p>It sounds pretty useful, and I'd love to hear if anyone's heard good or bad things about them?</p> <p>Here's their website: <a href="http://www.constellationdigital.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constellationdigital.com/</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/amazon-kindle-publishing-contract#post-5859 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:37:26 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5859@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Has anyone else read the Amazon kindle self-publishing contract? I'm about to sit down to read it with my contract law book, but if someone else has already done a breakdown I wouldn't mind avoiding the duplication of effort. :)</p> <p>It's here: <a href="http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=2&amp;categoryID=32" rel="nofollow">http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=2&amp;categoryID=32</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5829 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:30:58 +0000 Ryan Span 5829@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've got something to shout about today, so allow me to commence:</p> <p>STREET: Clairvoyance is out! The print paperback edition has been released and is ready to buy at fine stores everywhere!</p> <p>It's the full second volume in an explosive trilogy of intrigue, action and insanity, so if you haven't started reading STREET yet, now would be a great time and the paperbacks are a great way of catching up to the (still free!) web serial.</p> <p>Check out <a href="http://streetofeyes.com/?p=ordering">our Ordering page</a> for more info on where to get it.</p> <p>If you're interested in buying both volumes, I can tell you that the Empathy paperback will soon be lowering in price to match Clairvoyance. We're also going to be giving out vouchers for free Smashwords copies of Empathy, so if you'd like one, be sure to post here and I'll get those to you as soon as they're ready!</p> <p>I'm very excited. Can you tell?</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ryan </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/writing-business-column-for-july#post-5579 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:26:52 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5579@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>My July art business column is about using your Inner Customer to train your Inner Marketer and is accompanied by cartoons of angry and deliriously happy jaguars! Come see:</p> <p>Livejournal: <a href="http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/814146.html" rel="nofollow">http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/814146.html</a><br /> Or Blogspot: <a href="http://mcahogarth.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mcahogarth.blogspot.com/</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/compensating-authors-new-models#post-5576 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:49:36 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5576@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I'm hosting a discussion on my Livejournal about alternate methods of compensating authors, kicked off by a Readercon panel that Cecilia Tan transcribed on the same topic: <a href="http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/812871.html" rel="nofollow">http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/812871.html</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/ergofiction-seeks-guest-content-more#post-5565 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:30:52 +0000 A. M. Harte 5565@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hello all!</p> <p>As some of you know, Jan (@janoda) and I run an online ezine dedicated to webfiction, <a href="http://www.ergofiction.com/" title="ezine for webfiction fans">Ergofiction</a>. </p> <p>We'd love to have guest articles and more -- please head on over to our <a href="http://www.ergofiction.com/contribute/">contribute</a> page to learn more details! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/wall-street-journal-on-self-publishing#post-5410 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:12:20 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5410@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>This article's making the rounds, but it's relevant so I thought I'd link it here for those who haven't seen it yet:</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704912004575253132121412028.html?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLETopStories#_" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704912004575253132121412028.html?mod=WSJ_hppMIDDLETopStories#_</a></p> <p>In basic, more about how self-publishing, particularly electronically, is changing the industry. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/the-lighthouse-chronicles-ebook-finally-available#post-3935 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:38:19 +0000 Frances Gonzalez 3935@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>As you might know, the first book of The Lighthouse Chronicles recently wrapped and we're preparing for the second. </p> <p>Finally, the first book, The Lighthouse Chronicles: Diamond Dust EBOOK is on sale now! <a href="http://bit.ly/1VUm8V" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1VUm8V</a></p> <p>YAY! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/individual-story-downloads#post-3622 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:29:50 +0000 Frances Gonzalez 3622@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hey all... I'm working out the deets for a new project, and have been stumped on an aspect of it that I'm hoping someone here could help me out with. </p> <p>I've been thinking about allowing site visitors to download individual short stories for a pittance, but I have no idea what kind of format that download should be in. It has to be simple for me to create and a file that cannot be tampered with (for instance, no one can download the file, erase my name and hawk it as their own work). I was thinking .pdf, but iPhones and ebook readers don't really use that, or so I'm under that impression. Or should I offer multiple format choices?</p> <p>- Frances </p>