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Update December 17, 2024: Venturing into Podcasts

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I intend to increase my YouTube visitation (some of which will hopefully spill over into the website) by conducting and posting interviews and podcasts. Today, I have been exploring setting up a podcast for RFM.

Podcasts have a couple of advantages for someone experimenting with increasing his YouTube visitation. First, they can be audio only, which will alleviate a lot of worries about personal appearance that some interviewees may have. Second, they should be at least a little easier to produce than a video, because there is no need to worry about visuals such as appearance, background, lighting, etc.

I am also developing a different strategy from that I used previously with The Chamber and RFM. A quick bit of research shows that while Google Search has the highest visitation of any website, YouTube has the second. Ergo, instead of primarily attracting people to the website and then provide YouTube videos as a sort of sideshow, why not use videos and podcasts on YouTube to attract people to the website? Of course, the website will draw its own following, but this might generate more visitation than I previously had (granted, I did not take advantage of YouTube’s full capabilities). I am thinking most of the videos and podcasts will consist of interviews. These interviews will be considerably more in depth than the simple written ones I did in The Chamber. There are a few more things I am taking into consideration as I develop this new strategy, but these are the primary considerations for now.

At this point, I am probably going to start by using Audacity software, not only because it has a decent basic plan for free, but also because the files are mp3 and mp4 and so can be used almost anywhere, such as on YouTube and it can be used (with the download of Linux) on a chromebook, which is what I use for website building. Unfortunately, it can only be used on a desktop, but I can record videos on my phone or audio on another device and download them to Audacity.

If you have any suggestions, recommendations, cautions, or warnings you think I should heed, please provide them in the comments.

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Update Dec. 15, 2024: The Return of RFM?

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I may be bringing RFM back to life. Unfortunately, I had to close it down suddenly because…life intrudes. I was not making any profits anyway and it is a serious time commitment. Time was an increasingly hard commodity to come by at that time.

Now I am contemplating bringing RFM back. I am not ready to take submissions but stay in touch. When it is ready, I will be announcing it everywhere. It may be a little while, but I will be making preparations a few at a time. I have serious things going on in my life still, but I do miss publishing. It suits an aspect of my character I never knew I had and it was lots of fun reading all your submissions. I miss the publisher’s life greatly.

Stay tuned for sporadic updates.

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Call for Literary Submissions from Around the World

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Rural Fiction Magazine (RFM) would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin. I am seeking short fiction and poetry and non-fiction articles on topics of interest to a rural audience in any nation, but I am open to more than just fiction and poetry. I am also open to short plays, folklore, legends, tall tales, essays, etc. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they are connected to rural life and/or have a rural setting.

Rural Fiction Magazine (RFM) would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.

I am seeking short fiction and poetry and non-fiction articles on topics of interest to a rural audience in any nation, but I am open to more than just fiction and poetry. I am also open to short plays, folklore, legends, tall tales, essays, etc. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they are connected to rural life and/or have a rural setting.

Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.

For more information on what I am accepting and on the submissions guidelines, please go to my submissions page.

Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.

Currently, RFM is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.

Please re-post or share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.

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Request for a Link to Rural Fiction Magazine

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If you enjoy Rural Fiction Magazine, please do us a small favor and link to us. Backlinks are important to any website and especially for one that is growing. I

If you enjoy Rural Fiction Magazine, please do us a small favor and link to us. Back links are important to any website and especially for one that is growing. If you have a story or poem published here, please link to it. If not, please link to any story, poem, or page that you like. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Follow our blog to have our stories, poems, and other works and articles sent directly to you as they are published.

You can support RFM in several ways in addition to linking to us. Follow this link to our support page to find out more.

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Call for Literary Submissions from Around the World

Leave a comment
Rural Fiction Magazine (RFM) would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin. I am seeking short fiction and poetry and non-fiction articles on topics of interest to a rural audience in any nation, but I am open to more than just fiction and poetry. I am also open to short plays, folklore, legends, tall tales, essays, etc. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they are connected to rural life and/or have a rural setting.

Rural Fiction Magazine (RFM) would like to publish more writers from around the world, regardless of your country of origin.

I am seeking short fiction and poetry and non-fiction articles on topics of interest to a rural audience in any nation, but I am open to more than just fiction and poetry. I am also open to short plays, folklore, legends, tall tales, essays, etc. I am open to almost all genres such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror, mainstream, literary, romance, etc, so long as they are connected to rural life and/or have a rural setting.

Your work must be in English. It can a translation from your native language, but it must be in English, which is spoken around the globe and gives the work and author substantial worldwide exposure.

For more information on what I am accepting and on the submissions guidelines, please go to my submissions page.

Please note that there is no pay for this other than a publication credit and exposure to the American and English markets. However, all rights remain with the author.

Currently, RFM is publishing material within a few weeks of acceptance, though this may vary depending on the number of submissions.

Please re-post or share this announcement to give it maximum exposure.