Hey everyone,

While going through this forum, I realized something. Nairaland has many TALENTED WRITERS that are going to waste!!!!

This is so sad but it doesn't have to be the case. We need to form a union: Nairaland Writers Union (NWU)

Okay look at it this way. There are obviously many experienced and talented writers with novel-length manuscripts on their hands that are looking for trust-worthy publishers. Now, what if we form a panel of novel judges that are delegated to collect submitted manuscripts from Nairaland Writers and sift through them, and come up with like 6-12 of the best every year, [/b]then let [b]all nairalanders vote for the best 3 they would like to see in print. [/b]Then we delegate a book publisher to publish these books and make them [b]available to members of Nairaland at publishers rate?

Meanwhile, the authors of the chosen novels get their royalties per copy of the book sold!!!!

What do you guys think? Seun and the other executives will have to be informed and involved of course and Nairaland will also receive a royalty from each book sale as the referrer. That royalty can go towards maintaining the forum, etc.

There are more than 330,000 registered Nairalanders [/b]and new members sign-up everyday. This will be a good way to leverage the two most important things we have on this forum: [b]Talented writers, and readership base.

Think about it!!! What do you all think


I'm in the book publishing business, and I'm sure we can swing this. For e.g. see FEDDIE GIRL by Nona David coming to Bernard Books Publishing this July http://bernardbooks.com

Has anyone actually considered this idea? This forum being filled with lots of talented authors, one would think they would be interested in a chance at getting published!

Nairaland writers union.

All talk and no action will not get us anywhere! Please, e-mail me at if you are interested in the proposal presented.

Thanks!

Joan Peck (Book Publicist)
Bernard Books Publishing
http://bernardbooks.com
[email]joan.peck@bernardbooks.com[/email]

Joan4427:

Hey everyone,

While going through this forum, I realized something. Nairaland has many TALENTED WRITERS that are going to waste!!!!

This is so sad but it doesn't have to be the case. We need to form a union: Nairaland Writers Union (NWU)

Okay look at it this way. There are obviously many experienced and talented writers with novel-length manuscripts on their hands that are looking for trust-worthy publishers. Now, what if we form a panel of novel judges that are delegated to collect submitted manuscripts from Nairaland writers and sift through them, and come up with like 6-12 of the best every year, [/b]then let [b]all nairalanders vote for the best 3 they would like to see in print. [/b]Then we delegate a book publisher to publish these books and make them [b]available to members of Nairaland at publishers rate?

Meanwhile, the authors of the chosen novels get their royalties per copy of the book sold!!!!

What do you guys think? Seun and the other executives will have to be involved of course and Nairaland will also receive a royalty from each book sale as the referrer. That royalty can go towards maintaining the forum, etc.

There are more than 330,000 registered Nairalanders [/b]and new members sign-up everyday. This will be a good way to leverage the two most important things we have on this forum: [b]Talented writers, and readership base.

Think about it!!! What do you all think


I'm in the book publishing business, and I'm sure we can swing this.

Joan Peck (Book Publicist)
Bernard Books Publishing
http://bernardbooks.com
[email]joan.peck@bernardbooks.com
[/email]

For e.g. see FEDDIE GIRL by Nona David coming to Bernard Books Publishing this July http://bernardbooks.com

As soon as we get a favorable word back from Seun and other moderators, we'll get the ball rolling.

Meanwhile, you can e-mail me if you want to join up. Or ask your questions on this thread and we will address the concerns and iron out the details.

Thanks.

Joan Peck

Sounds like a plan! I don't have novel-length manuscripts, but I do have a collection of stories and a few poems I slaved on over the years.

This is a wonderful idea. Thanks Joan 4427 for making the pitch!!!!!!!

Abeg, wey Seun

Good idea. First, let Seun know about this.

MojiEsther:

Good idea. First, let Seun know about this.

Please how do I get in touch with Seun? Does he have a contact info or something?

Thanks!

Joan

@Joan: Seun is the SOLE OWNER of Nairaland.com; i'm positive he's already seen this post, and if he hasn't then rest assured that he'll definitely come across it during his "through-the-plantation-browsing" before the week is over. However, i think StephenP should take note (he's Lit-NL moderator, by the way), and pass this on to his oga ASAP.

Personally I think we can swing this; Joan says she's into publishing, that means she knows what she's talking about. We've got talent here, all we need is coordination and good planning - which I might point is what was lacking in other previous "group" proposals we've had before. So if you got [b]good [/b]literary works ready, then here's the chance. As for me, I'm going to dust up my desk.

@Joan: I checked Seun's link at the bottom of the page; turns out the jolly fella has a webpage to his name - http://www.seunosewa.com/. His email and everything is there. I wanted to mail him myself but I felt you'd want to do it yourself - it's your brain-child after all.

@ Kay9,

Thanks a lot for the info. I have just e-mailed both Seun and StephenP. We now have to wait patiently until they provide us with a feedback. Hopefully, it will be favorable.

Thanks a lot for your interest. An yes, I work in the Book Publishing Business. The company I work with is Bernard Books Publishing located in Cincinnati Ohio USA. http://bernardbooks.com

Once the Nairaland executive and moderator gets back to us, we can start ironing out all the details and set the wheel in motion.

Joan.

Okay-dokay.

Thanks to all those who expressed their interest via e-mail. We are still waiting to get a word from Seun and the other moderators.

Thanks for your patience!

Joan.

Hey Oga Seun, Stephen P, what's happening to this ship(Joan's idea). Now we don't need the details or the navigation map or plan, we know this things take time. We'll just like to know whether the ship is going to start sail at all. Ms Joan, by now Seun should have at least said something, either good or bad.

Joan4427:
Has anyone actually considered this idea? This forum being filled with lots of talented authors, one would think they would be interested in a chance at getting published!

I really need my books to be in hard print one day. Even if it's 1 Got lots of kid's\adults' books. Just wish I was on NL at that time. Too bad I was only 6... Lolzz