Promoting your work online.

Well, the first step to promoting your work online is obviously to get people to read what you have written. Personally, I’m a little skeptical about putting my work on the Internet, especially excerpts from my unfinished book, call me paranoid, but I have a great fear of being plagiarized. As for poetry, I’m a little less worried. There are communities of poets online that help each other out and do creative workshops and help you with the publishing process. However, I get the impression that some of these websites may not be trustworthy. Showing your work before it is published can be scary, showing it to the wrong eyes can potentially mean ‘getting robbed’.

   Nevertheless, some of these websites are trustworthy. When it comes to promoting any kind of creative writing online, according Dr. Kathy Mac, you need to look for websites with editors, but not just people who say they are editors, individuals with real credentials. See what those editors have published, read some of what they have written.

   If the right eyes fall upon your work, you can potentially get it published. There is one particular website that I feel fills the criteria, although I’m still not confident that it’s the real deal. On ‘Writing-World.com’ http://www.writing-world.com/index.shtml they have many experts that give general tips about various things related to writing. Unfortunately, the only editor that website brought me to was Sigrid Macdonald. But I did a bit of research on her, and all seems in order. Author of three books that I found on Amazon, and has written many reviews and articles that I unfortunately have not been able to find. When we talk about sending your work out to be read, I don’t see any place where this website allows you to submit. In the same way that they send you to that editor, they send you to another website for submissions http://www.writing.com/?rfrc=wworld2 . Yet from this link, I saw nothing about editors. I’m increasingly starting to distrust this website.

I got one here for you, instantpublisher.com. I don’t see the word ‘editor’ anywhere on their website either http://www.instantpublisher.com/default.asp .

I know I’ve used examples of places where you shouldn’t send your writing. I wish I could tell you about one specific website that can really be trusted when it comes to promoting your writing, but truth be told, this is new to me as well and I wouldn’t want to direct you into a trap.

Nevertheless, the general message of my blog is, you must be careful about where to send your work for promotion.