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crowdfundingI have repeatedly watched the authors of excellent cyberfunded fiction struggle to get their work reviewed in magazines. It's very difficult for hardcopy books and almost impossible for anything else. This really frustrates me. So, I'm looking for ideas to encourage magazines to review CFC projects.
1) If we had our own Crowdfunding Website, as some members have proposed, we could offer free advertising to magazines that review CFC projects. Each review would earn them a certain size ad for a designated amount of time. If they did a LOT of reviews we could bump up to a bigger ad. This would reward innovative magazines, help creative people find suitable places to send their review copies, and show readers/patrons things they would probably enjoy reading.
2) Meanwhile, since LiveJournal does not let bloggers run their own ads, perhaps we could do something similar by posting a review of each magazine that reviews a CFC project. For best effect it should probably be reviewed by someone other than the CFC project that got reviewed in the magazine, but that author could post here about the magazine and ask if someone else would be willing to review it.
3) Some magazines listen to what readers want, so it might help to get several people to contact the same magazine and ask them to review CFC projects. Not necessarily all at once -- maybe get 4-5 people to send one message per week, for repetition value.
Thoughts? Further suggestions?
1) If we had our own Crowdfunding Website, as some members have proposed, we could offer free advertising to magazines that review CFC projects. Each review would earn them a certain size ad for a designated amount of time. If they did a LOT of reviews we could bump up to a bigger ad. This would reward innovative magazines, help creative people find suitable places to send their review copies, and show readers/patrons things they would probably enjoy reading.
2) Meanwhile, since LiveJournal does not let bloggers run their own ads, perhaps we could do something similar by posting a review of each magazine that reviews a CFC project. For best effect it should probably be reviewed by someone other than the CFC project that got reviewed in the magazine, but that author could post here about the magazine and ask if someone else would be willing to review it.
3) Some magazines listen to what readers want, so it might help to get several people to contact the same magazine and ask them to review CFC projects. Not necessarily all at once -- maybe get 4-5 people to send one message per week, for repetition value.
Thoughts? Further suggestions?
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