About Red Room
Welcome to Red Room: Where the Writers Are
Red Room (redroom.com) is the online home of many of the world's greatest writers (some of whom haven't even been discovered yet). We provide our members and authors with elegant, easy-to-use online homes where they can express themselves, promote their work, and connect with other writers and book lovers. Red Room is a social hub, a place to discuss and buy books in every genre, and a destination for exclusive content that will entertain and inspire you.
Red Room executive editorial staff can provide expert personalized writing coaching and editing services, for writers in any genre (rates range from $250 to $400 per hour). The company can also provide copyediting and proofreading services. For more information, please contact editors@redroom.com.
What Can I Do in the Red Room?
There are several ways to get started. If you have:
- 30 Seconds: Sign up for our newsletter.
- 1 Minute: Start browsing the site now. Check out our homepage, our author list, our clubs, and our most popular page on the site: the blogs.
- 5 Minutes: Join now to create your member account. Community Memberships are free. If you’re an author, you'll need a Premium Membership in order to market and sell your books on Red Room. Premium Memberships are $30 per month or $250 per year; purchasing one is the first step in applying to become a Red Room Author.
Red Room is your one-stop literary home on the Web. Come here to buy, discuss, and research books; to blog and upload other content (including pictures, videos, and other media files); and to socialize and connect with readers, published and aspiring writers, publishers, agents, students, researchers, and other publishing and literary professionals. We pride ourselves on being a safe site with free premium content and educational, entertaining, and inspirational services.
In our current BETA mode, you can:
- Create a free Community Member Page to add your bio, blog, and post videos and image galleries
- Purchase a Premium Membership ($30 per month or $250 per year), and begin marketing and selling your book if you are a published author
- Showcase your writing with excerpts and more
- Interact with literary icons and other authors
- Read an author's bio, comment on his or her up-to-date blog, see upcoming events, watch videos, listen to podcasts, view all of his or her published work, and read professional and reader reviews of his or her writing
- Create, build, and improve your world of relationships through social-networking functionality
- Join a club, or create one yourself and invite others to join
- Comment on other members' and authors' blogs to continue the conversation
- Learn about literary events in your area
- Choose your privacy settings
- Much more...
Soon, you will also be able to:
- Find friends, teammates, alumni, or other contacts
- Import your contacts from your email address book and invite them to join Red Room
- Create a private or public group
- Stay current on group and friend news, events, photos, video, and more
While all content is available to the public without registering, we encourage you to take a minute to sign up to become a Red Room member so you can create your own Member Page. You can blog, post book reviews and comment on authors' blogs, and bookmark your favorite authors, content, and media.
What Can I Do in the Red Room?
Avid Readers - Share your love of literature with friends, colleagues, literary professionals, and other readers around the world. From cultural icons like Dr. Maya Angelou to aspiring authors, a diversity of voices, viewpoints, and genres are represented on the site.
>> Set up your free Red Room Member Page and watch video clips, listen to podcasts, and read and comment on original blog posts from your favorite authors.
Published Writers - Red Room provides you with a quality of life as a writer that you can't find anywhere else. You focus on writing; we'll take care of the technology you need. It's easy and costs only $30 per month or $250 per year, to set up your profile, network, bookmark, shop, and pursue your interests on Red Room.
>> Apply to become a Red Room author to build your fan base, communicate with friends and colleagues, promote your work, and finish your projects.
Aspiring Writers - We'll give you the tools, inspiration, information, and connections you need to become a productive, published, and successful writer.
>>Set up your free Red Room Member Page, and read writing and publishing tips from other writers.
Publishers, Agents, and Other Literary Industry Professionals - We will help you secure the clients and contacts you need to be successful in the literary realm, including discovering new talent and promoting your own business.
>> Set up a Member Page to join other literary industry professionals in the Red Room.
Book Clubs, Literary Organizations, and Other Associations - With our Clubs feature, we provide you with the group functionality you need to have an effective home on the internet, as well as a method for recruiting new members.
>> Encourage your members to set up a Member Page to connect with each other.
Students and Researchers - Information on Red Room is the most reliable author and book information on the web because our content is author-generated.
>> Start your research! See the full list of Red Room authors and even create your own Member Page.
Red Room was named after both a place and a literary tradition. The famous Red Roomof the White House is an extraordinary place where revolutionary behavior occurred in a small parlor. For example, when Franklin Roosevelt wouldn't allow female reporters at his press conferences, Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences at the same time for the women. The conferences were so popular that the male reporters started attending, and the President had no choice but to integrate his press conferences in order to get any attention. A tradition of civilized revolution on behalf of disenfranchised writers is carried on in the modern-day Red Room.
"The Red Room" is also the name of four different literary works of different genres, by very different authors, spanning a century. One of these works, written by H.G. Wells,is about confronting fear itself, alone in a small room—a relevant allegory for writers. Red evokes passion, action, and drama, providing the perfect backdrop for literary creation.
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