Tips for Videos and Others Misc Info

Our Application

We have created an application form to make it easier for authors to fill out the information we like to include in our featured articles. We obtained a listing of the 100 Author Interview Questions from another website. These are listed on the last two pages of our application. All we ask is that you choose 5 different questions, type your response to 4 of them and video yourself answering the last one.

Download the Application in WORD format
North Florida Writers Blog Tour Interview Form You can just copy and paste your answers and save the file to upload

Download the Application in Acrobat Reader PDF
North Florida Writers Blog Tour Interview Form You can download and print this form out to give out to your writers group. Then either email us or use the form below to upload the responses.

Download the Questions in Text File
100 Fun Questions For Authors Print out, read through and type up your responses, create the video and then upload everything using the form below.

The Featured Article and the Promo Video are created and posted for FREE for any published North Florida Writer living and/or working in the following counties:

YOU CAN USE THIS FORM TO UPLOAD YOUR DOCUMENT, PICTURE AND VIDEO

Some of our Tips for Videos and Other Miscellaneous Information

We have gathered some tips for videos that you create yourself and other items to help you with your featured article and promo movie. If you have a question about making your own video, uploading your material or getting on our North Florida Writers Published Listing CONTACT US form. The form will enable you to upload all your information and we will be able to create your FREE promotional article, video and add you to our Author Booklet that we send out to all county libraries and bookstores in the North Florida area.

How to Make Videos with your Phone

When you record yourself please make sure you introduce yourself, say which of the questions you are going to answer and then answer it. It helps if you are in sunlight and in an area that doesn’t have a lot of background sounds.

So long as your videos are in ‘mp4’ format and under 6MB in size (around 30 seconds) you can upload them using our CONTACT US form. Any other video format or larger size will have to be uploaded to our special secure folder on our BOX account. When you have your video ready and typed up the answers to your interview questions just upload the document, your professional picture and video using our CONTACT US FORM. Again, if any of the files are larger than 6MB just let us know in the comments and we will email you with a link giving you permission to access our upload folder on Box. Most of the time the email ends up in your spam folder so be sure to check there first.

About Box – Online File Storage and Sharing Application

How to upload the files to Box.com

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We created this website to feature North Florida writers in featured articles with short videos to encourage more people in the North Florida area to support these published writers.

We tried to launch the tour in March 2020 and got a great response the first 30 days then Covid took over and things slowed down.

Now that we are in a New Year we hope to encourage more published writers to reach out and take advantage of this FREE advertising opportunity.

The main goal is to support current local writers, remember those who have passed, inform the public on what’s available in their area as well as increase book sales. This will, in time, encourage more local writers to publish their stories.

We are inviting other creators to participate as well. We have a book illustrator, editor, website designer, and other people who help writers get their stories to the public.

These articles are a great resource for people who would like to become published writers themselves. Please remember to Like, Share and Comment on every post to increase our readership and keep this thing going. Thanks so much.

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