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If you are interested in submitting a short story (not more than 4,000 words) or a poem (not more than 24 lines) add your name here with a suggested title for the anthology that we will vote on later.
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Shelagh Watkins
http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk/

Short Story: My buddy, Tigger.
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"To Beirut and Back"
http://www.freewebs.com/abemarch

Published authors anthology? So can the piece be previously published?

What genres of fiction?
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Heads and Tales out now!
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Wow Shelagh, you are some great go-getter. I'm all for a short story, and my title suggestion is this..."world wide writers" (a little play on www) or perhaps "Seascapes: Stories from Both Sides of the Atlantic"...I think it might depend on who contriubutes and where they hail from.
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Pam Robertson

http://andthebandplayedonmylawn.blogspot.com

Admin Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 2015 Location : UK

If you have the rights Karina, your story can be included.

My suggested title: Writers on the Block (Writers Block with "on the" inserted).

I think we also need a theme. How about Friendship?

I'm thinking on my feet here and that theme doesn't go with the title ... but I prefer the theme to the title. I'll have a rethink about the title ... hmmm.
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Shelagh Watkins
http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk/

I really blew that Shelagh. My response was the title of my intended short story.

What about: "writers woven words"
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"To Beirut and Back"
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Admin Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 2015 Location : UK

My Buddy Tigger gave me the idea of friendship for the theme Abe.

The list of suggested titles so far:

Writers' Woven Words
World Wide Writers
Writers on the Block
Worldwide Web Writers
Word Wide Writers
Word Wise Writers
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Shelagh Watkins
http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk/

I like the friendship idea...and Writers' Woven Words, World Wide Writers if you'd like first and second votes Surprised

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Pam Robertson

http://andthebandplayedonmylawn.blogspot.com

Okay, guys and gals, I just ran across this thread. Have you done anymore on it? I would be interested in contributing.
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http://www.weavingdreamspublishing.com
http://suesunshine.blogspot.com/
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Admin Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 2015 Location : UK

Hi Sue,

We would really need a more enthusiastic response than this thread has received. Ideally, the anthology would contain fifty pieces of work (poems, short stories) by fifty contributors.

With a maximum of two thousands words per contributor, the book would have a fianl word count of between eighty to one hundred thousand words.

With an estimated sale of ten books per contributor, the anthology would sell five hundred books.

With only twenty-five contributors allowed four thousand words, the size of the book would be the same but the estimated sales would be halved to two hundred and fifty sales.

These figures have not been plucked from thin air, they are based on the example I gave in an earlier post:
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Shelagh Watkins
http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk/

It might be a little early in the life of your two sites to pull this off, Shelagh.

Perhaps down the road you can get more turnout for it.

Two things I've seen done:

A contest announced on lots of sites.

And:

Your weekly featured writer could contriute something each week. By the end of a year you'd have your 50 writers.
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Admin Joined : 11 Jan 2008 Posts : 2015 Location : UK

Members are not featured every week. At the moment, the forum has only six featured members. To feature a member a week would take up too much of my time. I featured an author a week on the network for thirty-three weeks but only a few of those featured post on the forum.

The enthusiasm has to come from the contributors otherwise I will end up with a rod for my own back. If people think they are doing me a favour, they will be difficult to deal with. We are all very busy and the last thing I need is to be involved with a group of takers who never give back.

Recently I invited 525 friends on Ning to join Zada's Books and More Books Network. The response more than doubled the membership but only 70 of 525 made the effort to join.

There is only so much I am prepared to do to help other authors or would-be authors. They have to pull their weight. That's the bottom line.
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Shelagh Watkins
http://shelaghwatkins.co.uk/

I can understand your feelings, Shelagh. It can be quite disheartening. You have better ways to use your time, I am sure.

I joined Zada's B&MB but am a little unclear about it. I must admit I haven't taken the time to check it out more thoroughly. I don't know if I could find my way back. I will attempt to give it more of my time this week.

I pray this coming week is a good one for you!
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http://suesunshine.blogspot.com/
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Shelagh,
working smart instead of hard is the better way.
Your point about not spending your time where there is minimal interest is valid.
I have received numerous invitations to join various forums. At first I thought it a great idea for exposure and joined. Now I'm more selective. If I know the person, like Zada, I will try to participate. The problem is the use of time. Just to sign on and then do nothing doesn't make much sense. I'm not sure how that benefits the sponsor of the forum other than collecting statistics. If I am part of a forum I at least want to see what's going on and participate. But, there still needs to be time for writing and time for oneself.
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"To Beirut and Back"
http://www.freewebs.com/abemarch

Hi Shelagh.

Let me know if you're still going ahead with this I might have a story and a couple of poems for you.
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Heads and Tales out now!
http://www.lulu.com/karina-kantas