In just a short time since its launch, PatronQuo.com is proving itself one of the most attractive and innovative venues for talented authors to promote their work online. PatronQuo has now unveiled special badges that its participating authors may use to promote their short stories in order to build their pool of online readers.
Literary egos at PatronQuo.com are put to the test in a series of paired-off writing competitions featured on the new Facebook group page Fiction Writers and Readers Death Match. As described in its information box: This is the place where thin literary egos come to die the death of a thousand paper cuts – or to shine forth atop the ink-splattered, slush-filled corpses of all the others. Come join in the fray...and let the death matches begin.
PatronQuo.com is putting its own funds out for selected patrons to choose which of PatronQuo’s participating writers are most worthy of getting the patronage monies. The idea is simple: The selected patrons pick who we pay…and who rises up in the ranking charts.
Excerpt: Question: What services are available for writers on PatronQuo? Answer: Complementary rub and tug...
So I'm sitting in the waiting room at an Imaging Clinic, as my pregnant wife - weighing in at 8 months - registers at the reception desk for her ultrasound appointment...when in comes a morbidly obese, middle-aged woman who plops herself right down on the seat beside me.
DON’T ADVERTISE. PATRONIZE. What do we mean by this? If you are reaching out to the literary community to tell its members more about yourself or the services you have to offer, then surely you need to advertise, right? Wrong.
"I first noticed something strange about Rhonda Piltzer the night she claimed my virginity at the age of sixteen. We were in the back seat of her father’s orange Fleetwood Cadillac, locked in a sweaty post-coital embrace, when it dawned on me, as the moonlight beamed down on her pock-marked face, that Rhonda Piltzer was the spitting image of my mother’s sister..."
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