From the Publisher’s Desk – A MadMikesAmerica Update
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During the next few weeks visitors will see some changes at MMA. Among them will be a brand new, streamlined sidebar and a more sophisticated but less obtrusive share widget so you can share the content of your favorite posts.
We strongly encourage readers and contributors to submit their stories to Reddit, Digg, Stumbleupon, FaceBook, and Twitter among others. This increases readership and we want lots of people visiting our little house.
In addition there will be no links to either authors or websites on the front page. These will be on a separate page completely and will provide the reader with an opportunity to learn more about our authors and staff as their websites and additional information will be added to their names. In order to access them all you have to do is click the relevant icon. The number of links will be greatly reduced. Those who do not visit or contribute to MMA will not be linked and new links will not be accepted.
You may also be interested to know that verbatim cross-posting will no longer be allowed. MMA is looking for original content and readers will no longer see links to personal blogs or personal web-sites.
A bi-weekly newsletter will be introduced. It will contain some behind the scenes fun facts and information relating to MMA and other important topics. Readers will be asked to sign up for a free subscription.
In other news, our friend Holte Ender has been promoted to managing editor thus expanding his role in the day-to-day operations of MadMikesAmerica. I will remain as publisher and will gradually move into the marketing and business aspect of the company.
We are looking for someone to assume the unpaid role of editor-at-large. This person will be responsible for helping Holte and I with the day to day operations of MMA, including news aggregating, some editing, and etc. It will be a fun job and we are looking for eligible candidates. Present contributors are encouraged to apply.
As always we are looking for a few good people to join our team. Our numbers continue to rise and we expect to reach over 10, 000 visitors a day within a short period of time. At this point we will be making some money and it will be put back into the business. By the end of the year we hope to be a newly designed, full blown web-magazine a’ la The Huffington Post, albeit smaller.
Finally we will be introducing a new category and that will be fiction writing. Separate pages will be devoted to those who want to add their two cents to an existing story or to start a new story. Everyone will be encouraged to participate especially those aspiring writers. Coincidentally, there is an existing story that was begun on Facebook and was written by Krell, The Lawyer, Mother Hen, and me, and it is far from finished. It will be moved to our new page and we will be looking forward to your most imaginative musings.
So, that’s the latest from the publisher’s desk. As always if you have any questions, or if you are interested in applying for a position with our great team, please use the “Contact” form at the top of the MMA page.
As always many thanks to our great team for all that you do. We couldn’t do it without your dedication, imagination, and skillful writing.
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Mike…
MH and I were just sitting around brainstorming and she came up with a really cool idea to create a fiction story. But the story could only be movie quotes.
Every writer could contribute to the running story, but only quotes could be used. And each quote would have to be from a different movie.
Once a quote from a movie is used, that movie is off limits.
Great idea! I will set that up in the next few days but you will have to start off. I am lousy at movie quotes.
Buttholes and ball licking? Where’s the FCC!
I have to ask. Since it is completely my own (albeit vile) invention, do my “Have You Seen My Butthole” and “Would You Like To Lick My Balls” posts count as fiction? They are after all written from the animal’s point of view.
Dulce was charmed by the butthole post and viewed it as straight reporting.
We all enjoy you hanging around Jess and love your comments.
Maybe you could be our virtual enforcer, if one of us gets out of line Mike could have you kick some virtual ass?
All this change is too much for my brain you guys. I don’t even contribute, other than just yakking in your comments section and it is too much 🙂
You are a good yakker Jess, my wife follows all your comments, she says “That Jess ought to write” and I agree with her.
Aw that’s nice. I’ll tell you what I told Mike and MH, I leave the writing up to the talent. I just add my two cents worth when I have it to spare 🙂
I’m thinking the research isn’t your cup of tea. Just write a rant then. Seriously- you are like the (relatively normal) little sister I wish I’d had. (I have a sister, but after the turd in the sleeping bag episode, well…she has never been right. Never was actually)
You’d be great!
It isn’t even the research that bothers me, to tell you the truth, it is the coming up with an idea to build on. You know who I would love to write like, and she is going to be all big headed now after I say it, Bee. I would love to write like she does, but I know my limitations. There are more of you here like that, but I know Bee and her style, as I talk to her away from here in a more open way. See now that’s out there on the toobs, she will hold it up and say, J. remember when you said blabbity blabbity. There really will be no living with her after she reads this and it will be my own fault.
Jess you are part of the family. We love your comments. Hell my friend Johnny Depp really loves your comments 🙂
All I see is Johnny Depp. Now what was the rest of it? 🙂