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Author: Legolas of the Woodland Realm  Date:   10-31-04 08:53 Greetings!, I have been working on a new way to cross-promote novels and wanted to make you all aware of it. This came out of discussions at PansDen over the summer. We have just started the pilot program. The Sister Novel Concept Sister novels like sister cities are two different places linked through bonds of friendship, ideally each novel would have two sisters. Steps to select a sister candidate: 1. Compatible subject matter but not too similar, i.e. Vikings, cowboys and the Riders of Rohan 2. Change genres, say from History to Horror 3. A different “standing” novel, i.e. A new novel paired with an older one. Then use special events, awards or real life connections to tie the novels together. Ideally each novel will have a “sister” section on the dust jacket with monthly highlights and a banner. The purpose is the promotion of both novels and the cross over of writers and ideas resulting in a more dynamic PanHistoria. I would suggest that at least one MoB from each novel join their sisters so they can post in planning and discussion topics. Right now for instance, New Tales from Middle Earth is accepting nominations for the Quarterly awards and I would like the sister MoBs to nominate. By keeping abreast of what is happening in the novels you can suggest writers to cross-over or other ideas. The idea arose from the mingling of personalities and exchanges of ideas made possible by our "summer camp." After discussion with a number of people I put together the following plan. The beginning group of novels “belong” to those who participated in the discussion. Included in the pilot group is so far made up of New Tales from Middle Earth, Hogwarts and Troy. This group has a brand new novel and several older novels. I am currently in discussions with Alltrud, Into The Woods, and The Riddermark to join as well as looking for a Horror novel. Depending on responses I will be asking for a pirate novel, either Bitter Broth or the Delian League and Mythic Heroes to join us next. Currently I have matched up so far: New Tales from Middle Earth and Troy and Hogwarts is hoping to link with Alltrud and Into The Woods. I would like to put Troy with PiRamesses due to the same historical time period and The Riddermark is a natural for New Tales from Middle Earth but any other matches will come after I know with novels I am working with, this pair needs a contemporary or other genre partner. Ideally you would have two or three sisters. Once the pilot program is up and running and we start to see some results I hope to have others novels wanting to join up and you can recruit matches on your own. Both New Tales and Troy have their sister sections already on the DJ so you can see what it looks like, ideally all will look the same. If you wish to participate I need a banner and the summary text. Once I have them all I will make sure the appropriate parties get what they need for their dust jackets to start, the summaries should change once a month.

Topics	Author	Date
MoB Discussions	Dawg Brown	07-03-04 11:37
The Open/Close confusion	Saoirse Ui Niall	07-03-04 12:08
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Sinha Embrace	07-03-04 13:44
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Calliope	07-03-04 14:00
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Dawg Brown	07-03-04 14:16
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Pendragon	07-03-04 14:26
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Ngetal	07-03-04 14:46
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Calliope	07-03-04 15:05
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Fanny Fae	07-03-04 18:20
question ...please	Lady Cassandra Seahawke	07-03-04 19:41
RE: The Open/Close confusion	Sinha Embrace	07-03-04 23:35
MoB Power	Malar Kasni	08-27-04 22:41
RE: MoB Power	Tancorix	08-28-04 04:04
RE: MoB Power	Erich Michael Braeden	08-29-04 08:03
Official Thoughts on MoB Power	Wyatt Earp	08-29-04 10:32
RE: Official Thoughts on MoB Power	Azrael	08-29-04 11:05
RE: Official Thoughts on MoB Power - Good questions Wyatt!	Saoirse Ui Niall	08-29-04 11:32
Yet More Official Thoughts on MoB Power - Good questions Wyatt!	Orquist	08-29-04 15:24
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	10-30-04 03:56
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Tancorix	10-30-04 07:22
Elections	Estarfigam of Ashumnein	10-30-04 12:22
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	10-31-04 00:14
RE: Elections	Tancorix	10-31-04 06:27
Sister Novels	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	10-31-04 08:53
RE: Sister Novels	Calliope	10-31-04 15:12
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Calliope	10-31-04 15:49
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	10-31-04 18:41
RE: Yet More Official/Question	Mithrandir	10-31-04 21:08
RE: Yet More Official/Question resolution	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-01-04 07:46
A question...MoB disputes	Anara	11-02-04 16:20
RE: A question...MoB disputes	Wyatt Earp	11-03-04 08:40
RE: A question...MoB disputes	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-03-04 13:44
RE: Sister Novels	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-03-04 13:53
RE: A question...MoB disputes	Anara	11-03-04 18:18
RE: Sister Novels/Update	Paris of Troy	11-09-04 08:20
RE: Sister Novels	Glas	11-09-04 20:46
RE: Sister Novels	Allyn	11-10-04 11:49
RE: Sister Novels	Paris of Troy	11-10-04 15:41
RE: Sister Novels	Glas	11-10-04 19:22
Sister Novel Update	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-13-04 14:20
RE: Sister Novel Update	Mouse Adams	11-13-04 16:58
RE: Sister Novel Update	Arwen Evenstar	11-13-04 18:00
RE: Sister Novel Update	Ava Montgomery	11-15-04 14:58
RE: Sister Novel Update	Paris of Troy	11-15-04 17:25
RE: Sister Novel Update	Ava Montgomery	11-15-04 18:02
Ways to promote your Novel	Tancorix	11-15-04 18:46
RE: Ways to promote your Novel	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-16-04 00:09
RE: Ways to promote your Novel	Patrick McErlean	11-16-04 02:16
Obviously, novels are free to do as they wish	Calliope	11-16-04 07:08
Red Carpet Society	Tancorix	11-16-04 07:26
RE: Ways to promote your Novel	Athena	11-16-04 11:48
RE: Obviously, novels are free to do as they wish	Legolas of the Woodland Realm	11-16-04 12:03
RE: Ways to promote your Novel-negative and positive	Flavia Amytas	11-16-04 14:01
Milestone Celebrations	Paris of Troy	07-03-05 01:58
RE: Milestone Celebrations	Pendragon	07-03-05 13:27
RE: Milestone Celebrations	The Master	09-19-05 19:19
RE: Milestone Celebrations	Alexei Nikolaevich	09-19-05 20:50
How to deal with applications?	Alexei Nikolaevich	08-02-06 09:57
RE: How to deal with applications?	Sam Service	08-02-06 13:23
RE: How to deal with applications?	Awoserra Aqenenra Apepa	08-02-06 18:01
RE: How to deal with applications?	Marcus Antonio Veneziano	08-03-06 06:01
RE: How to deal with applications?	Richenda dSegre	08-03-06 08:50
Novel Wide Messages	Tancorix	10-20-06 07:43
RE: Novel Wide Messages	Awoserra Aqenenra Apepa	10-20-06 07:49
RE: Novel Wide Messages	Tancorix	10-20-06 08:35
RE: Novel Wide Messages	Avaria KelTahn	10-20-06 09:23
RE: MoB Discussions...MOB only messages?	Lady Cassandra Seahawke	06-29-08 11:31
RE: MoB Discussions...MOB only messages?	Hatshepsut	06-29-08 12:23
MoB Discussions... Somethign that MoBs can do for their writers	Sky	07-01-08 05:49

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