Topic: Book tree: A website for independent writers.

Tagged: Literature books website awesome whatever you do don't blink

This topic has 10 voices, contains 16 replies, and was last updated by Andrew badley 36 days ago.

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January 11, 2012 at 7:35 pm #27654
Andrew badley	Hello my creative friend, I’ve had this idea since I woke up this morning and wanted to develop it into a fully functional site if possible. The idea is a site for sharing short stories (Or full books if you’re so inclined), People would have accounts that they use to post them, you could subscribe to your favorite authors to find out when something new comes out. You would be able to make your book either free or cost one dollar for download, of which the author would keep 75% of the profits, the rest of the money would go to keeping up the site. Each story would require a 500 (Approximately) word sample and a plot synopsis so people would know if they wanted to buy it. You would describe your book with keywords such as zombies, romance, awesome, and the like, so they could be searched for much like youtube videos. The only problem I can find is that I have absolutely NO idea how to build or create a website, so I was hoping to get some help from the awesome people here, and hopefully get a few writers on board to get their stuff on the site. I have had very few ideas that I thought was as good as this one, so I hope I can get this rolling. Yours truly, Andrew.
January 16, 2012 at 1:27 pm #33581
Josephine	Damn, I wish I was any good at coding/creating websites for you. I really would if I could, this is such a brilliant idea! If you find somebody to help you with the website-building, I’d be more than happy to join as a writer and promote the site as much as I could. All the best with nurturing this brain crack, Josie.
January 16, 2012 at 7:20 pm #33812
Bellamy	Hello, I am good at making websites. And I am here to help.
January 16, 2012 at 10:39 pm #34157
Andrew badley	@Bellamy Here to help you say? Well that’s always good, If you and I could work on this site that would be great. I’ve never collaborated (Or worked in any way) on a site before so… you start
January 16, 2012 at 11:54 pm #34368
Bellamy	That would be rather difficult on my side. You’re going to have to secure a web-host and domain name for the project first, that we can work on. How-to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWExYC_XK9E
January 17, 2012 at 1:41 am #34633
Andrew badley	Ah, thank you, I’d all but forgotten about that video. Now, before I do anything that would cost me all the money I have, we must discuss how this would work. You building the site, since I’ve no experience in this field I want to know more about it, and would very much like speaking In realtime or at least person to person about this.
January 17, 2012 at 3:10 am #34840
Bellamy	Certainly, message me when you feel necessary and we will set up some sort of meeting. We might want to you use wordpress, I’m not certain, but we might. There are also some alternatives, of course, but wordpress may be our best bet. It will take a bit of work and time, as I am not certain if something like this has been set up, but it should definitely be worth it and challenging!
January 17, 2012 at 4:29 am #35022
Andrew badley	Most of what you just said went right over my head, but I will message you when the time is right.
February 3, 2012 at 12:34 am #48033
Gillvinyeta	This is a fantastic idea and support you fully!
February 17, 2012 at 8:49 pm #55985
Elizabeth E. Finn	This is an awesome idea, I’m here for submitting stuff
February 19, 2012 at 7:55 pm #56674
Rhiannon	This is an amazing idea.
February 24, 2012 at 9:24 pm #58416
Elizabeth Rain	This is honestly a wonderful idea. When/If the site is completed, I’d love to contribute. If you ever need help in the design or layout of the site though, I do have some expierence with that and I’d gladly help.
April 7, 2012 at 3:42 pm #76507
Jack O'Halloran	This is a great idea! I wish I could help, but instead I can only give suggestions. 1) Include poems, and anything else of which the final copy consists only of words. (I think that books, short stories, and just about covers it though.) 2) Allow people to write reviews of authors’ works. Really looking forward to this!
April 7, 2012 at 4:16 pm #76513
Andrew badley	@Jack I intend to include everything from novels to poems to manifestos, anything that can be in a text format. I will also let people write reviews of the works, but I think I’d want it set up in such a way where there are two sections, one for youtube comment style “good job” and stuff like that, and one other for serious reviews with paragraphs and stuff. But I’m getting a head of myself. I look forward to seeing you there.
April 7, 2012 at 8:03 pm #76574
Pamela	This is such an awesome idea! I wish I could colaborate with something but I don’t have any kind of skill that could be useful.
April 12, 2012 at 4:21 pm #78744
Jane	A great way for people to get their writing out there and get feedback. I’d love to contribute!
April 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm #78763
Andrew badley	@Jane I’d love for you to contribute as well. It would be just delicate if I could get the site up in the next couple of months, but I’ve got a few things in my way, namely that I’m poor, lazy, and stupid, but if I can fix one of those problems the rest should follow.