Booksie - About Us

Publish. Read. Get Read.

Booksie's goal is to provide writers with an easy way to publish and promote their work and to provide readers with access to the best creative writing on the Web, organized and catalogued for easy browsing.

On Booksie, writers can:

• Post novels, short stories, poetry, articles, and more.
• Receive and respond to comments.
• Track visits to their writing.
• Make it onto the site's Top 20 ranking lists.
• Build and communicate with a fan-base.
• Build a Booksie Profile Page.
• Submit links to creative writing published elsewhere
• Edit and remove your writing.

Readers can:

• Serve as editors, determining which work receives more exposure on the homepage and the different genre publishing pages.
• Comment and rate.
• Become a fan and receive writer updates.
• Communicate, interact, and support your favorite writers.

Booksie FAQs

Does this Cost Anything?

Just your soul. No, just kidding. It’s free to publish and read.

Do I retain ownership of my work?

Yes, absolutely. You retain full rights to your work and may do with it as you please. Please see the Member Agreement to view our rights policy.

How Can I Get My Writing on Booksie?

There are two ways to get your writing included in the Booksie Creative Writing Index. You can either publish it directly on the site. In this case, your content will appear on a Booksie page and you can use all of the Booksie tools to promote it.

Or, you can add your writing to the index by linking to it from Booksie.

In both cases, your writing will appear in the index and on your Booksie page.

I have my writing published on another site. Can I still include it in the Booksie index?

Yes. You can link to that piece of content from Booksie. We only allow links directly to a short story, novel, poem, or some other creative piece of content. Links to the homepages of websites, the front of your Myspace pages, or non-relevant content will be deleted. We're building an index of writing, not of irrelevant homepages. Help us make this happen.

Can I include someone else’s writing that I’ve enjoyed in the Booksie index?

Yes, you can add their writing to the index via the link functionality.

Why Should I Add My Writing to Booksie?

Several reasons:

• Flexibility. We give you tools to publish your work on the site or link to work published elsewhere. No other creative writing site on the Web does that.
• Control. As an author you have total control of your experience. You can remove your work whenever you want, delete innapropriate comments you receive, and monitor the number of visits and reads you get. You also retain full ownership of your work.
• Exposure. Booksie is visited by tens of thousands of readers a month eager to find interesting writing to read. The site also optimizes your work so that it is found by readers searching via the search engines - Google, Yahoo, etc.
• Fun. Writers and readers on the site enjoy meeting on another, bondings over common likes, and inspiring each other to future literary endeavors.
• Mission. Be a part of something bigger. Help us build the largest organized dbase of creative and literary writing in the world.
• Free. Doing all of this is completely free.

Why Is Publishing on Booksie Better than On a Regular Blog?

Booksie was created specifically for creative writing and literature. Organizing a book on a blog is not easy. Blogs also don't organize your portfolio. They are designed for time-based journal writing, not literary writing. Check out the profile of some of our users and you'll see how Booksie organizes your portfolio and gives you tools (including a micro-Blogger) to connect with your audience. You can Feature certain work in your porfolio, embed images and video, tell your writers about the latest news (micro-Blogging), and keep tabs of your fans.

And if you'd prefer to post on a Blog or another site, that's cool. Why not link to it from Booksie and add your work to the index. It's free and it will only drive more readers and visitors to your pages.

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We welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggestions. Please email us at webmaster@Booksie.com with your feedback.