Site to promote writers.

[WritingChaos]

I’m working on a web-site right now for fun… don’t know if I’ll go through with it yet. Anyway I’m putting together a site that would display people’s writing in an organized manner. People from here could submit something to me that they would like to shear and I would place it on the site.

The site would be something like a promotion for Christian writers. Can’t think of a good domain name yet… it’s not a store, but you can read there? Hum. Well I would want to place links from it to related material. Let’s say I post your poem, then you have a site with your poems, blog, maybe a place to buy your work, I would want to link to that.

Any domain name ideas? Also, here is the list of what I got so far to display on the front page.

Fantasy
Sci-fi
Horror
Historical
Western
Poems
Nonfiction
Stage & Screen

[WritingChaos]

I've been messing around at www.godaddy.com and so far a lot of name ideas are taken. I readusfree.com is free though. That may be easy enough to tell people to just go to.

[Rebecca]

From what I've seen, Namecheap.com (http://Namecheap.com) has the best prices on domain names. You might want to compare before purchase. ;)

Rebecca

[WritingChaos]

Oh really?! That's a new one to me. I'll have to check that out. Thanks much!

[Rebecca]

You're welcome. :) I just checked, and it looks like godaddy charges $9.99, while namecheap charges $9.29. Not a huge savings, but it's something.

I use namecheap, and have always been very happy with them.

Rebecca

[WritingChaos]

Well aside from names, what do you think of my idea? I've been messing with the idea for years, but something always seems to get in the way.

[Rebecca]

Well... I have something similar in the works, although it's not limited to Christian writers. The site I'm working on has novel excerpts, short stories, and articles. It's a tie-in for CW, plus a ABA-related site I'm working on.

From the research I've done, story sites aren't uncommon. If you found a niche, however--such as making it just for Christians--I think you might have something. Also, I haven't seen the ability to purchase additional work (and the other features you mentioned) before. From what I've seen, that's unique. ;)

Rebecca

[WritingChaos]

Well I haven't seen something that promotes Christian work only. Hm. Well I'm just thinking about it, for now i'm working on redoing Merry's site. I'll post when it's done because I want openions.