the TRIP questionairre

name:

creative medium:

websites:

contact email:

publications:

interested in being part of the reciprocal links project: yes / no

looking for:

interested in collaboration: yes / no

service to offer:

service needed:

interested in being interviewed: yes/no

interested in interviewing others: yes/no

interested in having books reviewed:

interested in reviewing books:

looking for beta readers:

interested in being beta reader:

these at the moment are the basic questions i want to ask; they may be added to, expanded as the project increases

please fill in and return to thereciprocalindependentsproject@live.com

TRIP

The idea for The Reciprocal Independents Project has been kicking around in my skull for a while, waiting for certain aspects of the idea to crystallise before it was ready to be delivered to everyone.

What is the strongest thing that we as independent creators possess? I would suggest that it is our numbers.

What is the biggest obstacle to getting the recognition you deserve? Getting the word out there. Now think about the second statement and then look at the first one. How can there be so many of us and it is so hard to get word out there? Does that make sense?

If you help one of your friends by putting an advert for them in the back of your book do you lose anything? If one of you puts an advert for someone you don’t know in your book and they return the favour, how much does that cost? A lot of us are operating on a POD (print on demand) basis so we have complete control over what goes in our books.

So, you find yourself not selling because you have a bad front cover? An artist wants to get their work out there and is willing to help someone out to get some exposure. You’re not good at selling, someone else wants to help people sell things. If we start to share our resources, improve the standard of the work which exists in the community at large by a huge cooperative effort, who gets hurt? The mainstream publishers who constantly knock the production values might have to take notice. IT is not going to hurt the independent, is it? For every person that gets helped up the ladder – that is one more person to spread the network. A lot of us have our own little audiences we have built up, and instead of selfishly clinging onto that, by sharing it with us we build the only thing that will make each of our enterprises capable of becoming self-sustaining: a community.

Join T.R.I.P. in it’s effort to improve everyone’s journey!