Surging forward

Since the last post a lot of things have happened.

1) The posting at Writing.Com has generated a great deal of interest. There are now four members of the story review team to determine the suitability of material for publication. There have been some questions about submitting artwork as well. Most importantly, we have received several writing submissions. Several of the submissions are parts of serieses, or suitable for serialization, and thus good for more than one issue. I'm very happy with the response and hope things will continue.

2) I've signed up with a site builder and marketing tool suite. They provide easy to use applications for building an online store, including draft pages for products, privacy policy, contact information and more. They also have integrated drop shippers for those who wish to sell physical products, integrated merchant accounts, so credit card payments can be accepted and more. The start up price was fairly high, but worth it in my opinion. I am going to a second session with them on Monday to get more advice on how to structure the business. after that I plan to talk to a lawyer about incorporation, and then get moving on building the site and launching spectacular publishing.

3) Expansion of products. The first month there will probably just be the one title, but I think in fairly short order I will need to launch a companion title that focuses on younger readers. More information as the idea develops.

4) The review team has been set up at TrueShare and so far everything is going great. They're able to log in and collect the stories and feedback has been coming in. They're a great bunch and I truly appreciate the work they've already done.

All in all, I'm very happy and excited about the progress that has been made, and look forward to moving further along in the next week.