Writers Wanted
Like movies? Like telling people what to think? Have this tingling sensation that you know more than other people when it comes to movies and don’t mind letting them know all about it? Are you really an insecure film snob with a secret taste for Japanese tentacle monster movies and movies about lesbian vampires? Dude, where have you been? Write for us!
At the moment, we are looking for daily movie/entertainment news writers only who can also do movie/TV/entertainment reviews. Basically, write about entertainment stuff, with a focus on movies. We need people who can commit to the site, who can commit to the daily grind of entertainment news writing. Basically, if you don’t think you can hack at least one movie news item a day, stay away, this isn’t the gig for you, buckaroo.
So what do you get by writing for BeyondHollywood.com? I mean, besides the adoration of millions of readers a day (give or take a million a day), and the ability to brag to your cousins that you’re now a published writer? Yeah, this web thing is sorta like being published, minus all that bother of actual paper and ink. Who needs to kill trees to look good, am I right? You care about the environment, don’t you? Well, don’t you? It’s important to our grand children or something.
Oh right. Where was I? Besides being published on a notable website (at least in our own minds), you’ll be shooting off at the mouth about a subject you love dearly — that is, movies, TV, whatever strikes your fancy that fits the world of “entertainment”. Not to mention discover a lot of really, really bad zombie-comedy films shot in someone’s backyard on the weekends starring their friends and families. Hey, someone’s gotta do it, it mind as well be you.
And oh yeah, there is also revenue sharing (at first through Google Adsense), which means you can earn money for every post you make. Depending on how prolific you become, this could mean a few bucks a day to a few dozen bucks a day to a few cents a day. It’s entirely up to you. Write a lot, make a lot. Write once a month, make a cent a day. Later, if you become a valuable member of the team (that is, if you’re still here in a year or two), we can discuss other revenue sharing options. But really, you gotta prove you have staying power for this. So if you’re one of those fly-by-nighters who don’t have a passion for writing, don’t bother. I can smell fly-by-nighters coming from a football field away, and the stank is rank.
Before we get started, let’s talk about what you need to know before you shoot me an email using the contact form below.
Wordpress. It’s the publishing platform we use here at BeyondHollywood.com. That means you need to have a working knowledge of Wordpress, or a similar publishing platform, to hit the ground running. Wordpress is relatively easy to learn if you are willing to learn. Find more about it over at Wordpress.org. It’s not crucial that you know Wordpress, but truth be told, it’ll be a whole lot easier on both of us if you’ve at least published on the net before using some sort of publishing platform. I really don’t have a whole lot of time to teach you, so if you’re one of those people who needs his hand held for everything, that’s not gonna work. If you don’t already know Wordpress, or have experience in online publishing, you need to be at least adventurous and unafraid to try it.
What to include with your email to me:
SUBJECT HEADER: “Writing for BeyondHollywood.com”
INCLUDE: Who are you, why do you want to write for us, and what exactly qualifies you to write about movies and other subjects of entertainment? Your knowledge of Wordpress (if any), and any past writing credits online or off. Link to anything (reviews or movie articles) you’ve already written in the past on other sites, or if you don’t have those, send me something I can read to gauge your writing ability. Sometimes I’ll overlook this last part if your email actually sells your potential. What I’m trying to say is, first impressions count. DO NOT SEND ME AN EMAIL FULL OF TYPOS AND LOWER CASE LETTERS or sOmEtHiNg lIkE tHiS. Also, let me know where your interests lie: are you a horror freak? Strictly indie arthouse stuff? Foreign Chinese chop socky? Etc.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT. Don’t blow it. Failure to comply with any of the above will result in me mocking you to my friends. And of course by “friends” I mean my girlfriend from Canada. You don’t know her, she rarely comes down here, but I assure you, she exists. Plus, she loves comic books and looks like a supermodel.
So what are you waiting for? Shoot me an email and we’ll discuss your future with BeyondHollywood.com.
P.S. Citizens of L.A. and N.Y. get bonus points.
P.S.S. If you were able to read this very and totally unnecessarily long wanted ad and is actually reading this last sentence, then congratulations, you don’t have the attention span of a fruit fly, and you might actually work out.
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