Community Policies
This is a website for the SPAN community. In order for it to
maintain it's value to the community we have a number of rules that
must be followed for you to be a member.
At the core of these policies is the idea that SPAN is a place for
listening and learning as much is as it is a place for sharing. To
that end, please pay special attention to our Promotion Guidelines as everyone here has something to
share and we would like for you to be able to successfully share
your work without disillusioning those that wish to have a
conversation.
Simply put,
Do:
• Speak your mind
• Share your work
• Make it relevant
• Get people interested in your book intellectually, not through
hype.
• Use your member page/blog for promotional purposes.
• Use attribution when quoting anothers work.
• Use a clear concise introductory sentence
• Show respect in your post
• Speak within your boundary of knowledge
• Use friendly words
• Share constructive criticism, when it seems helpful
• Share advice and beta
• Reread your post or entry to double check for quality spelling
and grammar
Don't:
• Speak outside of your expertise
• Post contextually redundant content
• Post libelous content
• Post pornography or other illicit material
• Use obscene, derogatory, or sexual language
• Violate copyright law
Promotion Guidelines
Please consider these promotional guidelines when posting content,
especially any that features links off the site. We have written
these guidelines as way to guide and preserve this community for
our members, and we reserve the right to remove any promotional
content for any reason if we feel it does not help our community or
our members.
• Promotional copy, links to your website, or news releases can go
on your member page, on your blog, or in the
Member Showcase discussion forum
• Promote yourself by being of service to your fellow community
members.
• Promoting when your service is free AND industry related is
OK.
• Excessive, disruptive, or off-topic cross-posting within SPANnet
will lead to those post or comments being deleted.
• Promoting with the intention of receiving constructive criticism
on marketing, package, or Web site is OK.
• If you want to share a link, include information describing why
it is relevant within the context of these guidelines.
• Links must be presented in a straight forward and honest manner.
Misleading links will be deleted.
• While SPAN encourages business networking, we discourage
expansive direct solicitations across multiple member's walls.
Promotional, or business, requests can be posted to your blog, or
Member
Showcase, in accordance with these guidelines.
• If a service is requested that you can provide, you must still
stay within the intent of these Promotional Guidelines when
soliciting a response.
• Get rich quick schemes are not allowed at all.
• Obvious and blatant SPAMMING will result in your account being
banned. (If you are an Independent Publisher, Author, or
Sincere Member of SPANnet we are much less likely to ban your
account.)
Comment
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Comment by Roy Nolan Shepherd on July 4, 2011 at 6:52pm -
I just had my first book published and boy what a lesson learned. For anyone making their first run at it let me just tell you this much: NEVER assume anything. No one is going to be as excited as you about getting your book in print and out there. Be realistic about your expectations, remember, audience-audience-audience, think about your marketing strategy before you set the words "Once upon a time," in print. Anything I can say that may help you, I will try as best I can.
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Comment by Bradley Flora on March 5, 2011 at 1:48am -
bl,
Getting a book into the American classic section could certainly be considered a fair aspiration of almost every American publisher and author. The best way to go about it, in a traditional fashion, is to invest your time in finding the right agent, and then invest your time in learning how to correctly approach the agents that you think would work best for you, both for your genre and your personality.
The best way to approach an agent is probably with a concise query letter. In that regard, I recommend checking out:
http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx
In regard to finding an agent, as an example I'd recommend:
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/
If that doesn't work out for you, I recommend you consider sharing your work here on SPANnet, in our member showcase:
http://www.spannet.org/forum/categories/member-showcase/listForCate...
No matter what path you choose, good luck!
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Comment by bl woolsey on February 25, 2011 at 3:32pm
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How can I find a real literary agent with leverage on the market? Someone that can get our foot in the door and onto publication road? Bring me web someone to get my books into the public eye and onto the American classics section.
Ciao,
bl woolsey
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Comment by Annelise Lords on October 28, 2010 at 8:56am
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I agree, respect and accept your rules and act accordingly. I am seeriously thinking of self publishing my book and is ahoping around for the best deals. I want my books to be well made on the most durable paper and bound strongly. I need infor on everything i can get on self publishing. Cover design. How the books are made.
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Comment by Restoration Books & Publishing on October 16, 2010 at 10:18am -
I am grateful for finding this site. I am here to help and to share nothing more. I love God and He is number one. In respecting God I must respect all no matter what our differences may be. You are welcome to talk with me. I have recently published and book and decided to open my own publishing company called Restoration Books & Publishing. I am here to gain more knowledge about what I am doing and to help where it is needed.
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