This is a CALL TO ACTION!
Greetings fellow Inksharians! (I coined that word and am staking a claim on it, btw)
I also was the first person to call Inkshares "The Future of Publishing!" It's date stamped on their FB page - a couple weeks later the Wall Street Journal apparently liked my post and they used it in an article. - so Inkshares now brags about WSJ using the phrase without attribution to first use - I'm ok with that because the record shows I said it first. WSJ has more promotional juice than I do anyway - I have near zero juice:-)
Enough about me, back to this contest . . .
Entries have started to trickle in, but the addition of new followers has slowed down.
My efforts so far have succeeded in getting the attention of over 50 sci-fi or futuristic fantasy writers. I NEED your help in getting us to 100!
If I can personally drum up interest from over 50 authors, I KNOW that YOU (yes, you!) can recruit at least ONE more.
If each of you (on average) can bring just one writer into this group, then we can double our numbers and get to or exceed our initial goal of having 100 followers here.
Don't wait for the next guy or gal to do it - it's All About You! (I'm looking right at you, right now!) [special embedded code gives me that power]
Hitting that number will trigger two important things.
1. It will set a deadline for submissions (three months out from the day we hit 100).
2. We will move this from the Inkshares "Idea" stage to the Draft stage - which increases its visibility on the site.
So please reach out to your contacts in the sci-fi / futuristic fantasy writing world and dare them or challenge them to submit something.
Briefly explain what we hope to accomplish and give them a link to this page.
Feel free to recruit outside of Inkshares and bring more writers to this platform - which will also bring in more readers if these writers have any sort of following themselves.
There were 300 something entries for the nerdist competition, so getting to 100 here should be soooo doable. The barriers to entry aren't as daunting either.
#1. You only need a short story, essay or poem, not a novel.
#2. We will probably have around 12 to 15 winners, not 5.
This is a Good Idea - don't let it die!
Thanks!
Richard Saunders
I also was the first person to call Inkshares "The Future of Publishing!" It's date stamped on their FB page - a couple weeks later the Wall Street Journal apparently liked my post and they used it in an article. - so Inkshares now brags about WSJ using the phrase without attribution to first use - I'm ok with that because the record shows I said it first. WSJ has more promotional juice than I do anyway - I have near zero juice:-)
Enough about me, back to this contest . . .
Entries have started to trickle in, but the addition of new followers has slowed down.
My efforts so far have succeeded in getting the attention of over 50 sci-fi or futuristic fantasy writers. I NEED your help in getting us to 100!
If I can personally drum up interest from over 50 authors, I KNOW that YOU (yes, you!) can recruit at least ONE more.
If each of you (on average) can bring just one writer into this group, then we can double our numbers and get to or exceed our initial goal of having 100 followers here.
Don't wait for the next guy or gal to do it - it's All About You! (I'm looking right at you, right now!) [special embedded code gives me that power]
Hitting that number will trigger two important things.
1. It will set a deadline for submissions (three months out from the day we hit 100).
So please reach out to your contacts in the sci-fi / futuristic fantasy writing world and dare them or challenge them to submit something.
There were 300 something entries for the nerdist competition, so getting to 100 here should be soooo doable. The barriers to entry aren't as daunting either.
#1. You only need a short story, essay or poem, not a novel.
#2. We will probably have around 12 to 15 winners, not 5.
This is a Good Idea - don't let it die!
Thanks!
Richard Saunders