Publish Central!

Well hello again folks. Here is the newest update for PC. Its 6/24/09 and we are a little over three weeks old now I think. The membership continues to rise, I think we are like 8 or 9 on the groups ranking, and Ning and the PC websites are starting to get used more. Vamplit has been keeping up with everyone and we have a good writing editor joined up on PC. You should check him out. Also Vamplit is asking our assistance to check out one of their authors who is writing a twitter novel. You can check it out here at http://twitter.com/thecouriernovel I am continuing to seek out more agents and publishers as well and I will hopefully have some new additions soon.

I have gotten a couple comments along the lines of; this group/website isn't doing anything for me! My response to this is twofold. First remember that we just started three weeks ago and we have been focusing on getting everything up and running. The massive amount of work Midnight has done alone getting this going is impressive everything looks as good as it does because of her. As far as I go, most of what I have been doing has been behind the scenes but now that we are more stable I will be able to focus on networking more and getting the word out. Secondly, remember that this project will only be as good as we make it. Feel free to contact publishers and agents. Particularly let them know they can come to us if they are looking for a specific style. If you get turned down or don't get a response don't worry about it. I have many times.

I am not scolding anyone though because the vast amount of comments and suggestions I have gotten have been positive so if this sounds confusing disregard. I have been just doing Google searches for independent publishers, freelance jobs postings, and up and coming literary agents and trying to contact them. We have gotten a good response and what I am hearing is that we came up with a pretty good idea here. So let's help each other out and get our group and site out there! Also I appreciate all those who are doing just that, you guys are awesome.

Midnight created a new contest so go on there and check it out. The winner is going to be featured on PC and the Ning! So bonus right?! Also I have been kicking around and idea with a PC contest where we would accept chapter submissions periodically and then everyone would vote on the best chapter and that would become Ch. 1 then for Ch. 2 we could do the same thing, so that in theory we would end up with a short collaborative book. If it was really good we could submit it to an indie and the writers who won the respective chapter entries could reap the benefits. Let me know what you all think. If nothing else it would be something fun to do.

Hopefully next week I will be able to get back into regular updates at the beginning of the week. Also I am almost caught up with reviews so you can keep em? coming if you like. Hope everyone is doing good and enjoying the summer.

Talk to you soon.

- C. M.