How To Create An Online Magazine That Actually HAS Visitors
Taught by Lisa Marie Basile
Lisa Marie Basile comes from the bloodline of Giambattista Basile, the Italian fairy-tale writer. The only water sign in a family of fire signs, LMB escaped to NYC a decade ago.
She is a graduate of The New School’s MFA program for creative writing. The author of Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York) and Triste (Dancing Girl Press), her newest chapbook, war/lock, is forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014. Recently, Noctuary Press, run from University of Buffalo, accepted her full-length poetry collection, APOCRYPHAL.
Her work can be seen in PANK, kill author, Johns Hopkin’s The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, decomP, Saudade Review, La Fovea, Prick of the Spindle, elimae & Pear Noir! among many other publications.
She is the founding editor of Patasola Press, a micropress that focuses on emerging, established and female writers. She has taught poetry at The Brooklyn Brainery and at Westfield High School, wears a #bookdress and is a main performer for The Poetry Brothel.
She is an assistant editor for Fifth Wednesday Journal and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice.
She is the founding editor of Luna Luna Magazine, a mischievous and sexy online daily magazine, finely curated with pieces about women’s culture, lifestyle and art.
Do you have a blog passion project that you're itching to turn into a real and recognizable online magazine? You're definitely not alone. I've just created a new online women's magazine--Luna Luna Magazine--that currently has more than 40 contributors (and growing) and an average of nearly 40,000 views per month. We've been picked up major national news media and we successfully funded our Kickstarter. We've only been around for 5 months, but I've learned a lot about to cultivate something people want to read.
So, how do you do it? How do you develop your niche? Find writers? Create daily content? And what do you focus on (ps: it's not search terms appearing 100 times in your posts)?
In this class, we'll teach you, the budding writer, editor or blogger, how to go from 0 to 1000 to 5000 to 10k in the first few months. You'll also learn how to successfully pitch to blogs that you may want to join.
