Poetry Hut Blog

I have a website, www.thewordvine.com, that I hope to launch in September. The Word Vine is going to be a (free) site where DIY publishers, micropresses and the like can sign up and sell their stuff, commiserate, etc. Right now it is just a placeholder website.

I’m still working on it, but each store can sell through its own paypal account or a Lulu.com account if it exists. The site will have the usual ecommerce functionality - visitors can browse inventory site-wide and there is one secure shopping cart/checkout for the whole site. Each store will have it’s own storefront and admin area.

It’s going to be free, because I’m such a freaking idealist, but I’ll have it set up so you can donate to me so maybe I can recoup the couple hundred dollars it has cost so far. I don’t care about the time, but I do have surgery bills that could have used the couple hundred dollars, LOL.

Thanks to those of you that responded to my DIY publishing poll from before.

I need some beta testers if you would like to participate. You’ll need inventory and a paypal account and/or a lulu.com account. I’ll probably start that testing process in August.