Shadowlocked is looking for new writers and contributors to build on the success that it has enjoyed since its launch shortly before Christmas of 2009.
Within two weeks of coming into existence, the site gained an enviable Google Rank of 6/10 and 80,000 unique viewers in one week.
And since then we've been featured all over the web...
If you love movies (cult or otherwise), comics, books, videogames...
If you feel the need the need to get something off your chest and feel that you have the erudition to put it into words...
If you think most of the 'Top 10 Lists' on the web are pants, written by those with no knowledge of their subject, and that you could do considerably better...
If you want to attend press preview screenings of films big and small, blockbuster and indie...
If you want to review the latest DVDs, Blu-rays and videogames...
If you want to meet and interview actors, directors, writers...
If you want to build a portfolio and network of connections in film, TV and print media...
...then you might like to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , ideally with some examples of your writing on the web (but this is not essential).
PAYMENT
There are loads of 'geek' sites who want 'free writers'. A tiny handful will even pay you $5-10 for a list or article that might net them 75,000 viewers. Shadowlocked, whose core staff come from (and co-originated) the popular and profitable denofgeek.com, is just starting up, and running on enthusiasm - BUT will allocate all future advertising revenue (after running expenses) to those whose writing dominates that month's total of site-readers.
Let's translate that:
If you write a 'Top Ten' list for Shadowlocked in May and it later becomes a huge hit on stumbleupon.com, accounting for 41% of that month's unique users, then the writer will receive 41% of the total freelance budget for that month. And if such a 'run' continues for months, the relevant percentage will continue to be paid to that writer.
Why should a web-writer not get continuing royalties if their work continues to be read, and to bring value to the publication that it rests in?
Why let yet another 'geek editor' buy your brilliance for pennies, promises...or nothing? Please get in touch if you'd like to know more.
Leo Porter, editor-in-chief, Shadowlocked.com
