Cross-promotion

The nominations for the 2012 Rose and Bay awards are up - I've got a vested interest because I'm a nominee, but there's a lot of good authors up this year.

The nominations are:

The Many Writings of K.A. Jones by kajones_writing aka moonwolf1988
The Fiction of Lyn Thorne-Alder by aldersprig
Garden of Prose by Clare K.R. Miller (clare_dragonfly)
Require: Cookie by Stormy (Grace McDermott) (Me! )
A Rosary of Stones and Thorns by M.C.A. Hogarth
No Dominion by C. E. Murphy
Eclipse Court by Shirley Meier
Hiraeth: the Adventures of Trevor and Jason by robling_t
Free Microfic Day! by skjam
Philosopher in Arms by Karen Wehrstein
Wonder City Stories by Jude McLaughlin

You can vote here.

WeSeWriMo, aka Web Series (or Web Serial) Writing Month, is a writing marathon/project much like NaNoWriMo, but with far more flexible and personalized goals. The project is hosted by the EpiGuide web fiction community, where our mandate is to encourage and promote the bountiful variety of webserial formats and genres.

Since 2007, writers of any kind of serialized fiction or webseries are invited to spend August 1 - 31 churning out material with a set goal of ... well, whatever measurement you like! You might decide on 50,000 words or 10 installments or 50 scenes or 100 pages or any writing goal you wish. The idea is to make it ambitious enough to be a challenge, but realistic enough so that you're not dooming yourself to failure before you even start.

This idea has been rumminating in my head for some time. I don't think I've mentioned it on here before (I did a quick look see for a post and couldn't see one, but if I'm wrong I apologise).

Anyway the idea:

Firstly you need to read this article.

Now, obviously, that's about an alternative book tour for a physical book, but I think parts of it could be used by us.

Here's how:

1. Work out how far afield you can afford to go and how long you can dedicate to the tour.

Um, do we have a forum for talking about monetisation strategies? I couldn't see one.

Anyway someone (not a weblit person) I follow on Twitter mentioned Readability in passing, and vaguely curious I went to look.

It looks like an interesting possible revenue stream. It depends on their subscribers viewing our pages in the readability app of course, but it doesn't seem to cost anything for "publishers" to sign up, so it might worth looking into more.

Hi guys,

So it's Read an E-Book Week again, which is kind of cool. And who would have thought ebooks were 40 years old?

But while I was buying ebooks and sending them to Aldiko and Kindle for Android I had a thought.

Do we want/need a "Read a Weblit Week"? I have a number of reasons for thinking that it's not a bad idea.

I was thinking today of the common complaint that most of our most active readers are, well, each other.

Well, why not use that?

When I started reading web-comics, they would often, on April Fool's day, draw each other's strips in a sort of round robin.

Why not do that with weblit? Enough of us read each others' work that it wouldn't be that hard to write a guest post in their setting.

The Rose and Bay Awards are specifically for crowdfunded projects, and the people who support them. Many project types are covered, including Fiction and Poetry (separate categories).

Here's the info:

Did you have any active crowdfunding projects in 2010?

If you had a fiction project, one of your readers can nominate it for a Rose and Bay Award in the Fiction category. You can also nominate your own favorite stories - three nominations per person (and if something you like has been nominated there is no need to second it - you get to nominate one more project).

Figured this would go here, as a guild would go towards cross promotion / promoting the medium!

There's a 5-second survey up about the Guild's mandates and definitions. The more people that take it the better so please check it out http://is.gd/ga6kJ

Voting ends Wednesday Oct 27

thanks!

Hey guys, sorry for those of you who follow the webfic crowd on Twitter (or read WFG forums ... lol too much crossposting @_@) because you've likely read about this already Anyway, I'm doing a small survey of Reader/Writer commenting habits and would love your participation:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/93XJKXK

The results will be published on ErgoFiction

Bear with me, I'll get to the question in the topic soon. I want to explain the line of reasoning that lead to the question first.

We spend a lot of our time trying to attract new readers to our sites, but in the end it's a piecemeal approach and ends up with us basically scrapping over the same small (albeit slowly growing) pool of readers.

That's part of why we're here, isn't it? We want to know where the readers are.

Or is it?