Oort-Cloud is a new writing site that lets readers and writers be part of a “social publishing” experiment. It uses web 2.0-style features, such as tag clouds, rss feeds and post rating that makes it easy to keep track of a favorite author and find other good writers.
…authors create and distribute their work, and readers, individually and collectively, including fans as well as editors and peers, review, comment, rank, and tag, everything.
For writers, Oort-Cloud offers….
A place to share experiences in writing, publishing and help one another in dealing with the challenging decisions associated with copyright.
A place to reach out to readers, develop stronger ties to them, find new ones, and keep them up-to-date about new and coming works.
A place to learn what ideas and issues readers are interested in.
A place to help readers understand the issues concerning writers, especially in light of intellectual property issues.
A place to share opinions about trends in science-fiction and encounter new ideas that might inspire new creativity.
Oort-Cloud is geared mainly toward science fiction and fantasy writers, but genre definitions are flexible: “there’s nothing to say your science-fiction or fantasy contribution could not also be, in part, a romance, mystery, horror story, or even a western.”
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