Posted by admin on September 12, 2008
Authonomy’s Open Beta went live last week, and is looking to be a pretty exciting opportunity for aspiring writers.
Authonomy looks to be heavily inspired by Zoetrope: It allows authors to post their work in the hope that it generates community buzz. If it does HarperCollins, the site’s owner, will review it for possible publication.
Authors upload at least 10,000 words from an unpublished work. They do basic Promotional work on the text, such as crreating an image/cover and a short blurb. The work is then posted on Authonomy and other users can critique and comment on it. Users are limited to 5 books at a time, so you van’t just grab a bunch of free reading.
Authors can control the comments on their works by “Cherry Picking.” While they can’t erase or delete user comments, they can feature those they like at the top of their work’s comments.
Then once a month, HarperCollins’ Editors will take the top rated books and review them for possible publication.
Your Work is safe: Authonomy will disable cut and paste functions, and they’re pretty open about the rights you’re giving up. according to the FAQ: Not much. You continue to own your work and they only take the right to post it on Authonomy and you can remove your work at any time.
So.. Build an audience, get read, own rights. Sounds good Doesn’t it?
Try out Authonomy Here.
Posted by admin on August 5, 2008
Posted by admin on April 3, 2008
Subterranean Press is releasing signed, limited and lettered editions of Neil Gaiman’s and Michael Reaves’s Young adult book Interworld.
While this wouldn’t be news, this is: Michael is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and all proceeds from the sale of this edition are going to help with medical costs.
Please take a look at Sub’ Press’s order page for tis opportunity to purchase this book for this good cause.
And let’s all thank Sub and Neil for making this possible.
Posted by admin on March 21, 2008
Tor.com is rolling out a brand spanking new, interactive, mysterious website that seems to be taking forever to build.
So, in an effort to keep you coming back week after week, they’re offering Mucho swag if you sign up.
First, There’s the sweepstakes to win an Asus Galaxy EEE
microcomputer.
Then, You get a free E-book in HTML, PDF, or Mobi format. Just cuz, you know, reading a book on your phone is sooooo 21st century. And these aren’t lame, backlist, gee we can’t sell them anyway books either. So far, they seem to be fresh, award wining works. Generally, the start of successful franchises so you’ll go out and by the sequels. All are worth the two minutes it takes to sign up.
Then you get a couple of promo wallpapers to download… Meh. There’s also a nice Blogroll of sites that are helping to promo the new site (Mostly the featured authors) and, of course, you’ll be notified when the new site is up and running.
Check out Tor.com for more info.
