03/05/2025
GoSobo Writing Competitions: One of Our Philosophies
With emerging technologies today, it is easier to read than in the past. And as population increases so is the need for books that can quench the unique literary thirsts of this contemporary times. However, the interesting thing is that though fantastic books are being written not many are known. This calls for something beyond just writing fantastic books.
For example, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's approach to her latest book, "Dream Count", bring some realities to light. I recall that the first time I viewed a promotion of her book was around October 2024 meanwhile the book was formally presented late March 2025. She did not just write a fantastic book then sat back expecting it to do magic sales-wise, no. She has been all out promoting her book. That's where the challenge lies with many Writers/Authors.
Many write fantastic books and do less than nothing or invest below average effort at best, to put their books before potentials buyers/readers. In order words they fail to promote/market, advertise and even sell their books. They expect magic because they wrote what they consider to be fantastic books. Well, it doesn't work that way. Though we appreciate the fact that many writers do not have resources to promote their books. GoSobo can help.
Here at GoSobo, we both encourage Writers to write fantastic books, promote their books, and also learn how to do much more with the emerging tech. The voting approach in our Writing Competitions is to ensure that, we both discover great minds and also challenge them to go out there and tell people to pay for their books, using mobilization for votes as a foundation. Therefore, seeing that we are not only going to discover great writers but will work with some of them beyond the competition to ensure that their books are published on our online bookstore, get free training exposures so as to writer better, access community support, they needed to prove that they're proud of their "PRODUCT" enough to sell it. What's the use of a fantastic book if the writer has no plans, strategy, and passion to sell it. For us at GoSobo,
"Great books are not just the ones written but the ones society can see to buy and read. No great book that is unread, is truly great."
This is why we require contestants to not only submit fantastic entries but to also plan, strategize, and passionately go out there to mobilize people to vote for them to win. Anyone who is not convinced about this approach will have a difficult time working with us. We are introducing initiatives to ensure that our Writers experience a new dawn in their writing journey, for good.
In all, our real platform for working with writers to achieve their dream is GoSobo Network of Writers, GoNeW. As we said, membership into GoNeW is by participating in any of the seasons of GoSobo Writing Competition and getting a minimum of 200 votes. In this network we use community sales strategy to ensure books written by members are jointly promoted on all media, access discounted rate when publishing on GoSobo Online Bookstore, etcetera. Contestants who qualified during Season 1 are already the foundational members of GoNeW. Those who wll make it will join them after the competition. Same for those who'll come from Seasons 3, 4, 5, and so on. We look forward to the time in the life of GoNeW when a book published by a member will have the leverage of being promoted by thousands of other members, all at once -what an unparalleled influence it will be, at zero cost!
Click the link below to join the Contest.
https://wa.me/message/QXSIR2OHET6TL1