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<blockquote data-quote="Priest_Sidran" data-source="post: 3480752" data-attributes="member: 30857">G7 It may be helpful if you provided a list of people who are working on the project whom the majority of us might know, or at least can google. As for Online (electronic print) anthologies, I have recently run into an amount of people who are less than thrilled with such a medium. Offering it in this way, as well as print on demand would make it much more attractive to the consumer, and offering a Print copy of the book to those authors who do get in to your anthology would be a plus. Sharing a little of the end product profit might also be helpful. Advertising your anthology on major sites, as well as in print magazines might be helpful as well. Its a portrayal of authenticity that stops many from sending their work. I want my stories to get read, but I want them to be read by people who mean something in the long run. Whether or not your anthology means something is a matter for the future, if you want to have a successful business in publishing, find ways to attract people to your project. No one wants to work for free, especially authors. Writing is a labor of love, not a hobby of love, it takes work, hard work, and to not get paid for that work is almost unbearable for some authors (there is always the artist type of author out there who does the work simply for the sake of the work, and for nothing else and no one else, but in this world, these days that is a rarity). I Applaud your desire to get an anthology together but I think that you should reevaluate the way you handle recruiting your authors. Look at some of the major publishers in the Genre and see how they handle submissions, incentives, etc. PS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Priest_Sidran, post: 3480752, member: 30857"] G7 It may be helpful if you provided a list of people who are working on the project whom the majority of us might know, or at least can google. As for Online (electronic print) anthologies, I have recently run into an amount of people who are less than thrilled with such a medium. Offering it in this way, as well as print on demand would make it much more attractive to the consumer, and offering a Print copy of the book to those authors who do get in to your anthology would be a plus. Sharing a little of the end product profit might also be helpful. Advertising your anthology on major sites, as well as in print magazines might be helpful as well. Its a portrayal of authenticity that stops many from sending their work. I want my stories to get read, but I want them to be read by people who mean something in the long run. Whether or not your anthology means something is a matter for the future, if you want to have a successful business in publishing, find ways to attract people to your project. No one wants to work for free, especially authors. Writing is a labor of love, not a hobby of love, it takes work, hard work, and to not get paid for that work is almost unbearable for some authors (there is always the artist type of author out there who does the work simply for the sake of the work, and for nothing else and no one else, but in this world, these days that is a rarity). I Applaud your desire to get an anthology together but I think that you should reevaluate the way you handle recruiting your authors. Look at some of the major publishers in the Genre and see how they handle submissions, incentives, etc. PS [/QUOTE]

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