Thursday 26 October 2017

Publish Yourself Here

It's a long road to getting published. Especially if you want your writing to gain a substantial audience.
It's amazingly hard to get your writing out there to the masses of people all over the world, let alone your own country.

If you want to give yourself and your writing a good leg up, then why not publish your work and your profile on the World Writers Collective site!

The site has only been running for a short time, so it's easy right now to join as a member and get noticed. And it's cheap!

Even if you have only written one or two short pieces, that's enough to share with your audience. No experience necessary.

You'll not only get your own personal profile page, but you'll also be able to enter the free competitions that allow your writing to be:

1) On the HOME page at the top so everyone can see it, read it, buy it.

2) Added to the top readership list if you rank high within the competitions.

3) Be added to the anthology at the end of each year.

4) Be edited for free by other writers within the collective by simply dumping your project into the member DropBox.

5) Included in much more to come!


Check it out now:
https://www.worldwriterscollective.com


The website is still under construction, so add yourself to it ASAP so you will be ready for the launch.


More:
JOIN AS A WRITER.

Your membership will give you these amazing opportunities:

1) Your own page on the website. See the Jane Doe and John Doe Sample Pages.

2) Your achievements announced on our webpage.

3) Your book launch announced on our webpage and emailed to all our subscribers.

4) Your chance to have your best writing piece at the top of our main page to draw in hundreds of readers.

5) A valuable network of writers that help each other edit, write, throw ideas around, and discuss writing techniques, as well as publishing techniques.

What are you waiting for? This is it!

(The introductory price of $15 P.A. is definitely worth it. Membership is free for 2017. You can still pay now, and that will cover you for all of 2018.)


What you need to provide:
As you can see by the sample Jane Doe and John Doe page, lots of information is provided.
You can provide whatever information you like. However, so the author pages are at least mostly similar, we will keep to the basic format that you see on the sample profiles.
Check out Mat's, Melka's, and Jane's pages and you will see how different each is in their own way.

-A short blurb will be at the top next to your photo, so I'll need both of those supplied via email as soon as you can.
-A short paragraph of news about you is next to that again. Please send me an update regularly so I can keep your readers informed - minimum of once a month - maximum of once a week.
-What have you written? If you have books as hard copy or online, send me a link, or how people can buy them (Smashwords is great for online sales and easy to link to). If you are not selling them, send me a Word Doc or PDF, and I'll list them for free for people to read.
-A great bio about you. Editors, writers, authors, literary agents, all have bios online. Check them out and do something similar. Generally a bio is about your writing. However, at the end of the bio many authors add a little something personal about themselves which helps their readers relate to them better.
-Everything else is all about you, which is again so readers can connect with you. It's the same as if you were an actor or a musician, your fans want to know about you as well as about what you write. Ensure you add photos too.


Further Information:
A world of writers have come together to create the Writers Collective. It is here that everyone can become fully immersed within a writer’s work and learn all about your developing career. This is your first step to becoming a paid writer. No, you are not a sell-out. Instead, you will be recognised for the work you already do.

However, it is not an easy road and requires lots of time and even more patience. But this is what appeals to literary agents, publishers, and editors: being ready to pitch a finished written piece that already has a readership base.

For now, offering up free samples as well as free full-length stories (if you wish to), is the way you are going to build up a large readership.

All writing welcome. Novels, poetry, non-fiction, scripts, everything.

To help with the running of this website there is a small cost of $15 for an entire year (free for 2017). At present, this will not need to rise. However, it is best to call this the introductory amount while author numbers are building.

As well as notifications on this website regarding everyone's work, such as book launches, being a winner or runner-up for writing competitions, being published (traditional and self-published), and other successes, you will also have your own page to post up work, add links to your blog, links to your website, links to where you are selling your books online and hard-copy, and much more. For only $15, it is a good deal.

Even if you have other creative things you want to show off or sell, you are welcome to list these as well. Maybe you paint, maybe you have an EBAY store, or maybe you host roll playing games. Feel free to list these as well!

Check out the website and the author pages that are already populated and see what you think. If you like what you see, then please get in touch.