Two weeks ago, we pondered if AllVoices.com, which runs lots of ads for writers, is just another pay-per-click meat market.
Last week, the CEO and founder of AllVoices.com refused to reveal how much her contributors are (or aren’t) making.
This week, we’re going to wrap this up by letting readers weigh in on these types of services…including one who is a previous AllVoices.com contributor…
This week’s letters appear in: The Latest from Angela Hoy
From the time I was a kid, all I wanted was to be a published author. I think I was strongly influenced by the Peanuts comic strip that had a recurring storyline where Snoopy was writing his “it was a dark and stormy night” book.
I achieved my goal of becoming an author in 2001, but I didn’t reach the level of success I had planned until I made one simple change in mindset a few years later.
I’ve had lots of stuff published in the consumer zines and in professional journals. I’d like to take some of these and put them on my MySpace thingie, hoping perhaps it’ll generate more business.
My concern is that the articles and manuscripts essentially now belong to others and I was wondering if, even though I was the author and they would be going onto a social networking site, if plagiarism issues can result. If so, what if I added to each article or manuscript “This article/manuscript appeared in such-and-such magazine (or journal) on (whatever date)”? Would that cover me? Or, should I just drop the whole idea altogether?
Sometimes we writers, especially fiction writers, make our job harder than it needs to be. We would force feed our readers the literary equivalent of chicken Cordon Bleu when they would be happier
Renewal by Andersen / renewalcs.com / Renewal by Andersen Colorado – an Andersen Company / Andersen Windows (Andersen Corporation)
JoJo Marengo / Umbrella Publishing / umbrellapublishing.com / World Art Institute – Publisher writes nastiness about his victim.
