Monday, August 17, 2009

More moves

It has been a long time since the last post. The main reason for that is that I have moved from Korea to Canada, and that took a lot of time and effort to finish off. Now I'm here, and things should start moving forward faster.

A few things have already happened since the last post. First of all, the fine people at True Share have been in touch with me and offered me a free trial of their services. Thus far everything is working great, and I see no reason why I won't be making them my file storage service for the long term. I'd advise anyone looking for a good file storage service to check out True Share.

Second, I have started advertising Spectacular Publishing. I will be placing an add in one local SF club newsletter that I belong to, and I have also added information at my Writing.Com account. I've been a member there for many years and should be able to get some authors and readers interested. I've also posted forums for potential readers and writers on my public portfolio there, and set up pay for click advertising for the forums and for this blog. Their click prices are quite reasonable, although you should have a site that involves writing somehow if you wish to get clicks from them. It is very targeted traffic, so it should be of some value.

I have also got three reading editors for selecting stories to appear in the anthologies and have worked out ways to get the stories to them and their opinions back to me. So things are now starting to move forward much faster.

Colin Neilson

4 comments:

Vivian Zabel said...

We're not exactly competitors, but sort of.

I'm the head of 4RV Publishing (http://4rvpublishingllc.com), but we don't do horror and little sci fi.

Hope all works for you.

Vivian

Spectacular Publishing said...

It looks like 4RV Publishing is more for books, while Spectacular Publishing is focusing on periodicals, so I'd say we're more complimentary services.
Perhaps once the Spectacular Publishing website goes up we can do some reciprocal linking.

Colin

Vivian Zabel said...

Yes, we're all books. Give me a yell when the website is ready.

Spectacular Publishing said...

Will do, and thanks for reading.