A Publisher's Guide to Beta Reading by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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A Publisher's Guide to Beta Reading
I suppose lots of people do it lots of different ways, but I hope folks might find this useful: I'm a writer and editor as well as a publisher, so I have some experience with this.
As Insane-Randomness aptly commented below, these are all questions a writer could ask of their own stories.
Step 1: read the story.
Read the story all the way through, do not stop half-way through, if you must stop half-way through, then TELL THE WRITER. DO NOT leave people waiting on a report from you that is not coming. Saying you will beta read a story, and then flaking is worse than doing nothing.
A FORM:
A short form with questions you ought to answer fo
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What I have to offer as a publisher by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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What I have to offer as a publisher
I am an amateur publisher; I have no money, no printing press, I have an email account and a good idea, and a hell of a lot of hard work invested in what I do.
I publish an electronic magazine, in PDF format, distributed via email to all my subscribers. I can't offer you money, I don't have any; I can't offer you loads of comments and feedback, I can offer two things: first, that your work will be better protected being published in my magazine than on Deviantart, and second, I can absolutely guarantee that your work will be seen by hundreds of people.
Don't Pay to Publish Your Work by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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Don't Pay to Publish Your Work
There are publishing companies who will charge you money up front to publish your work, they are called vanity publishers. I advise you to have nothing to do with them.
There are plenty of publishers who pay bupkus or even pay nothing out there who are in need of content.
Yes, I Spam People by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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Yes, I Spam People
Item 1: I am biased, so keep your own opinion in mind when reading this.
A long time ago, a person whose work I wanted to publish responded to my message with: 'isn't this spam?' I wrote back 'Yes, but in a good cause.' 'Good answer!' he(she? It? I don't remember, it's been a long time) wrote back with a smiley face.
'Hi, I'm a publisher and I like your work' there are only so many ways I can say that over, and over, and over again. And I do: in my job, I write to literally hundreds of people. As a new publisher, I need to handle my own publicity; I need to tell people about my publishing as well as finding people whose work I want to publi
A Publisher's Lament by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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A Publisher's Lament
I do not offer book deals. I never have. I explicitly say what I do, and what I do is not book deals.
'Free online magazine' is what I do. What is hard to understand about this? Nothing. It is a very easy thing to understand. So if you do not understand it, then you are stupid, or insane. I'm leaning for 'insane', myself, because expecting something from someone that they did not offer, and expecting a man to do something that he explicitly says he does not do, is insane!
So, yes; I did stop talking to you. Because you are stupid, and insane, and I want nothing to do with you.
So while I would be very glad if you were to stop talking badly
How you can know I am not a scam artist by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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How you can know I am not a scam artist
Because stories can be downloaded from Deviantart with the touch of a button: if I wanted to steal stories and make money with them, I could do that incredibly easily without drawing any notice; I wouldn't even need a Deviantart account. Instead, I go to an incredible amount of trouble to draw notice to myself and my work.
I AM NOT A VANITY PUBLISHER by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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I AM NOT A VANITY PUBLISHER
I am an amateur publisher: I work for fun, I don't charge money, I don't pay money. I AM NOT A VANITY PUBLISHER: you do not pay me to publish your work; if I am ever able to make the jump from amateur to professional (something I want to do very much indeed) then I will pay you to publish your work.
A person commented, asking why I want to publish people's work when I'm not making any money or anything out of it; I started to write a reply, but it turned out to be rather long for a comment, so I write it here for anyone curious to know to see.
Once upon a time I was trying to join the army and was stuck waiting for people to call me. For almost three years I was stuck in my parents' house, waiting for a phone call. And of course when the phone call came I'd be joining the army, so I couldn't get a job; I sat around all day doing nothing.
I had nothing to do all day except watch TV and browse porn; I understand there are some people who
How to start an E-zine by FanaticalPublishing, literature
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How to start an E-zine
Very simple:
1, pick a theme.
2, make an E-mail for the 'zine(optional; you can use your personal one).
3, talk a whole bunch of people into subscribing and contributing to the first issue.
4, send the first issue to your subscribers.
5, repeat steps 3 and 4 for every subsequent issue.
(if you want to make money doing it) 6, once you have a large number of subscribers, start to run advertisements for people in exchange for money.
IMPORTANT TIP: talk to other publishers, see if you can work together. Example: two folks doing E-zines, on poetry, the other prose; they help to advertise each others' work; from that they both get more subsc