I hope you want to write a Guest Author post for Pasadena Daily Photo. Please read the following and, if it sounds like something you want to do, get in touch.
The concept:
I believe that networking is giving. I wanted to find a way to make my blog serve other people while it served my writing career as well.I know. It's a photo blog. Stay with me.
Requirements:
I require two things of you before you post on PDP: That you are a San Gabriel Valley author, and that you are published."San Gabriel Valley Author" defined:
Because my blog is called Pasadena Daily Photo and not Whatever Daily Photo, and because the San Gabriel Valley is rife with talented writers, I look for Guest Authors from the San Gabriel Valley. You're the author and I'm the blogger and nobody's paying us so we get to define this. Either you live here, you work here or you have ties here. You tell me. We can stretch it, if not too far.
"Published" defined:
You've published your work where PDP readers can find it. Self-publishing is fine, as long as we're not talking photocopies or flyers. Blogging may or may not count. Let's talk.
Guidelines:
Over time, based on author questions and our mutual guest post experience, I've developed the following guidelines. You can read them here and/or download the .pdf.
Here are some previous guest author posts, in case you want to take a look.
Guest Author Guidelines for
Pasadena Daily Photo
contact: Petrea Burchard, pb@petreaburchard.com
Thank you for your interest in being a Guest Author on Pasadena Daily Photo. Something may eventually crop up forcing me to create rules. So far, that hasn't happened. But I do have guidelines. If you have questions or wish to vary them, most likely the answer is yes! Just send me an email.
Your Post
400-450 words is ideal, give or take. Please type your post in the body of your email to save me having to retype. (Attachments give Blogger formatting problems.) If you have links, please include them as links where you want them in the text.
I recommend not selling too hard, but please do talk about your workshops, books, upcoming appearances, etc. and definitely provide links.
Your post can be about anything writing-related--why you write, what you write, what got you started, why you work in the San Gabriel Valley and/or how the SGV influences you, etc. It's a chance for people to get to know you so use it however you like. If you wonder what I'm looking for, I suggest you think less about that and more about what you want to say.
You can provide your own artwork (e.g., a book cover) if you choose. A jpg is ideal, however it's got to be larger than approximately 425 x 425 or so (doesn't have to be square) to show up on PDP without pixelation. If you don't have artwork, let me know ahead of time and I'll provide a relevant local photo.
Deadline
Guest authors post the middle (~15th) and final Wednesdays of the month. As long as I have your post by the end of the Sunday before your Wednesday, I have plenty of time to edit and post it.
Your post day
Most importantly, please check in and respond to comments throughout the day of your post. Interaction with readers is what it's all about.
The post goes up at 12:01am and is the top post for 24 hours. Clicking on the post title gives you the url of the post to send to your network; that url remains in place as long as the post is up. I'll leave it up until you tell me to take it down. In other words, it stays up as long as the blog stays up.
I'll tweet and Facebook your post, and I recommend you do the same. Share it with your network, put it on your website, etc. It's permanent, so feel free to link to it.
Questions? email me.
Questions? email me.
Thank you for posting!
