First of all, this year is going to be a busy one. In this month alone I’m going through lots of personal changes and they are all very significant, life changing type changes. Writing-wise I have huge plans, both for my own endeavors and for this blog here. The most important is an anthology.
Right now? I would love to just hear input from any writer, any reader, or just anyone who frequents this blog.
When and if I get this going these conditions wont change:
1) Genre: Speculative fiction, crime, noir, horror and sci fi. Pretty much any pulp type material.
2) Cheap and nonprofitable: Depending on the amount of authors I’d like to keep the ebook under $3 and over 99 cents. All profit will go towards the AKAQ website, which includes upgrades, access to more images (Which this website lacks, except for book covers. We have tons of those thanks to Amazon.) and other website related costs.
3) Availability in Amazon. Others are up for debate.
Now, these are topics I would like to discuss:
1) Submission length. Maybe flash/poems in-between stories.
2) Help. I would like either someone who wants to help editing or perhaps some beta readers. I personally like using the writers to go through the whole book, but surprisingly I feel like I’m the only one that ever does it and I feel like I’m bothering the editor, even though I want the whole book, which has my story in it, to be as polished as possible.
3) Covers: I have some ideas already maybe using the image we currently have on our frontpage.
4) A physical book: I once sold pre-orders to my first book and found how successful it was. But after that found almost no sales through lulu.com After that I moved over to Amazon and found a way better and pleasant market. I would like to sale pre-orders through lulu.com again. It’s cheap, I can drop the price to $5 bucks and still make the donation worth it. After all the primary point is to get writer’s work out there and the website’s funds are, if anything, not important at all.
5) Do you want in? I want to include at least 20 authors, and I think I can easily get pieces from the usual bunch around here. I think I plan to send some invites first and then open it up to submissions. This way I could get some bigger names mixed with some new talent.
So discuss, I love a good online discussion. 🙂
-L. Vera
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I just put together an anthology of short stories for SFFWorld.com forum members. It went well. We even got a story from two up-ward trending authors to contribute. But, it was a lot more work than I had envisioned. I think, just make sure you have folks lined out for each job (file formatting, editing, proofreading, etc.).
Do you plan to pay the authors? (Either an upfront payment or royalties?) You’ll probably get a better turn out (and higher quality material) if you offer some payment.
Thanks, yeah this project needs to be formed by a small group. Which will be my first act, to get a team together.
Also, send me some info/press release on the book and we would be more than happy to have it on AKAQ.
Wow, really? Awesome! Here’s the link to the Smashwords page:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/263577 (free here!)
Here it is on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Visions-Apocalypse-ebook/dp/B00AVNAWSG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357691548&sr=8-1&keywords=the+end+visions+of+apocalypse
I may be updating the Amazon file soon to fix some formatting issues.
And here’s the link to announcement on the SFFWorld.com forum:
http://www.sffworld.com/forums/showthread.php?39106-The-End-Visions-of-Apocalypse
Again, thanks for the shout out. 🙂
If you need any help with your own effort, or have questions, feel free to contact me.
The End: Visions of Apocalypse is on our newest post of freebies.
Awesome – thanks!