Where to publish stories online for free
Today's post is in reply to a question about where to publish stories online.
When it comes to publishing your stories online you have a few options:
- Find someone else to publish it for you e.g. an ezine editor. There are huge amounts of ezines and website that publish short stories and many pay professional rates too. A simple search on google will give you a selection of places that are open to submissions.
- Self publish. You publish your work and make it available online.
In this case, the answer that automatically comes to mind is to create a blog. You keep all the rights to all work published on your site and get to present it just the way you want to. You can personalise the look of your site so it's the perfect match for your stories or design it so it expresses your personality.
If you want to create a professional showcase for your writing you might want to consider getting a domain name and setting up a website with professional hosting.
Following on from this, if you're interested in publishing your stories with the goal of gaining feedback from readers etc... then you might want to check out these sites:
- Booksie.com This site offers the chance to post your stories online for free. You retain the full rights to your work and can get feedback from readers. You can find out more about how it works here.
- StoryWrite.com Again, completely free to use. You maintain ownership and copyright to your poetry, stories, or other original works of art you upload to their sites, including the right to publish it elsewhere. They also have contests and writing groups on site.
- StoryStar.com A family friendly site where you can post your stories to be read and rated. Each month they select a story from each category to give extra recognition to and the stories with the most votes/readers also get highlighted. As with the others this site is completely free to use.
If you want to make some money from your stories consider publishing them as ebooks. Again you have various options. A popular way to go about it is by using a site like lulu.com orAmazon's kindle program to self publish your work and make it available to the public for purchase.
Have you published you stories online for free? Which route did you take and why?
You can publish your writings by using the web application Bookonlive. http://www.bookonlive.com
More than simple narrations, you can choose to publish living texts.
As each new chapter is published, your subscribers receive a notification by e-mail.
In that way, they can follow the development of your narrations as they evolve and through the forum of your livebook, share your impressions with your readers.
Earn money by selling access to your texts, choose the price and the currency, get the payment of your committees on your Paypal account.
Increase the impact of your writings by customizing the appearance of your livebook and by styling the characters.
With Bookonlive the authors are the exclusive owners of any text published. http://www.bookonlive.com
Have a nice day.
They share the advertisement revenue based on pay per view. They accept stories too.
Unfortunately there is no payment to the authors as it is running on a free hosting site, but it is a place where people's work can be appreciated.
http://nuffsaidpublishing.blogspot.com/
If you don't know what kind of a self-publishing site is. I'll explain to you:
It's a simple risk-free E-book publishing platform where you can easily publish books to desired vendors. Such as; Kobo, Scribd, Page Foundry, and Barnes & Noble Nook.
Their site can walk you through publishing your content. And they also had a distribution with Create Space,--where you can publish your book in paperback format, that way, if some people don't have an E-reading device; they can read a print copy.
You can take a look of their site at www.draft2digital.com
Short Stories- Life is a story
Have a great day!
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You might want to meet the classic author duo L. Hart and Olivia Rupprecht who have already created a classic novel before: "THERE WILL BE KILLING".
They are back with a bang with another novel which introduces the twist of murder and money in the most thrilling way that one could image.
The new novel I am talking about is titled: "Making a Killing"
In case you want to know a short description of the story, here lies the summary:
The CIA’s most valuable assassin, Agent J.D. Mikel, wasn’t supposed to fall in love with anyone – especially not Kate Morningside, a woman coveted by another powerful world player. When Kate is kidnapped, J.D. is pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, and one false move could cost him everything. Indeed, there are players – and then there are the masters who make the rules only to break them.
It’s not an even match for those joining an epic search for Kate on a twisted dark hunt down the Mekong River in the midst of a bitterly disputed war: Izzy, a brilliant young psychiatrist assigned to the Army’s 8th Field Hospital and counting the days until he can return home; and his best friend Gregg, a gifted psychologist who served his time only to be driven back to Vietnam by his own inner demons and a rivalry with Mikel that burns as intensely as napalm.
There are other wars within wars in turbulent 1970. From the CIA to the American mafia to an International cartel helmed by a master of the sadistic, all eyes are on Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle. And when it comes to a certain cash crop flourishing under the dominion of the mysterious Poppy King, everyone wants a piece of the action. Money talks. The currency? Heroin. It’s a spinning maze of intrigue, politics, and mind games; a hotbed where sex, drugs, and Janis Joplin aren't always a beautiful thing. But even when no one turns out to be quite who or what they seem, one rule remains fast across the Devil’s chessboard: Winners live. Losers die.
The sequel to the national bestseller THERE WILL BE KILLING, MAKING A KILLING artfully weaves a spellbinding tapestry of dark history, psychology, and seduction – the best and worst of our humanity . . . and the hunger of our hearts.
In case you are being a bit too curious to know about the novel, take yourself through to the following page:
http://thestoryplant.com/our-authors/ohn-l-hart-ph-d-and-olivia-rupprecht/our-authorsohn-l-hart-ph-d-and-olivia-rupprechtthere-will-be-killing/
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You can also try Wattpad.com, which has become rather popular in recent years. You can write anything there, from novels to fanfiction. Archiveofourown.org is also like this...
http://www.yoursearch.in/stories