I LOVE promoting published authors who have
posted stories with us (and we have a few both on paper and e-pub). I'm so
happy to be able shout your wonderful news when you have something new in my
newsletters and letting you use the TM space to entice people to you.
The biggest trick is getting our oh-so-jaded
readers to pay attention to more than just your story is giving them something
they want - advice on how to get where you are, too.
I do ask that you not post first chapters that
will force a reader to either purchase something or abandon the story. If you
upload, please upload a complete story, even if it’s not all uploaded at once.
A great way to get more attention (and more
mentions in my weekly newsletter that’s potentially read by about 30,000 people)
is to upload a multi-chaptered story bit by bit over a course of several weeks.
That way, you gain a following on the site and people are more likely to want
to read more.
Join our social networking group "The Portego", fill out your profile with banners, descriptions,
etc. for your work and promote your books through your blog space
available there. I bet that if you interspersed that with hints on
writing - both the pen to paper hints and tips as well as the process of
publishing, you'd get a LOT of lookers, both writers and readers.
You’re more than welcome to upload information
in text and picture format to your profile on the site. Instructions on how to
upload a photo to your bio page are here:
• Log in to your account.
• On the User control panel, click Manage Images
• Upload a new image. Please do not use someone else’s copyrighted image or a
“public domain” image. At The Masque, we feel like there’s no such thing as
“public domain” – just not getting caught.
• Copy (Ctrl-C) the text under “HTML code to use image in story” and between
the Quotation marks. (Example: stories/5/images/filename.jpg
)
• Go back to your user control panel and click Edit Bio
• Confirm that the information is still correct as sometimes the information
defaults when revisited.
• Near the bottom of the page, in the box next to Image, paste (Ctrl-V) in the
file path that you copied on the other page.
• Click Submit.
You may also use the entire HTML image tag to
load a photo into the text box of your bio, as well.
The Masque is a small site – but it’s growing
exponentially every single day. Every corner of the site is seen by a handful
of people and continues to grow. I’m more than happy to let you promote your
work on The Masque because your stories and blogs help The Masque grow too.
It’s totally a win-win situation.
To upload a story:
First, register in the top left corner of this
page http://themasque.net/efiction
On this page http://themasque.net/efiction/user.php?action=login select
Add New Story
That will bring you to the story submission page. Fill in all of the
information. This page http://www.themasque.net/efiction/viewpage.php?page=rooms_desc will
tell you where things should go. (I'm a little prettier than Lit and divide
things into categories based on who is in the story, rather than what sex acts
are involved, since that's kind of yucky.)
When your story is in properly, you'll be automatically taken back to your
Story Management page.
Let me know if I can help in any way.