What is the Mission of Benicia House?

Benicia House is dedicated to providing a new, or additional, venue for exposure of your work to the public at large. Exposure is extremely important for any author or writer. Those who have attained a degree of recognition have usually had a rough road to travel in getting there. Even if you have an active web site of your own to promote your work, one of the important aspects of getting your site recognized is the number of links to and from that site.

What does this mean to me?

Select Writer and you will notice that we have a fairly broad list of categories which should serve to stimulate your thinking about a specific category that fits your need. Once again, you are free to name the specific category under which you would like your writing listed. We suggest you select, or name, a category where you feel viewers might expect to find your work.

Each Writer gets a full web page; we offer a selection of five (5) different templates from which to choose. Each template, with the exception of #3 in the case of both Writers and Artists, provides you with the following:

• Page title
• Two graphic images. The size of the graphic is listed on the template.
  The maximum size for any graphic file is 50k.
• A title for each image
• A text description of your image (limit 250 words max).
• One hyperlink to your page on another site where you or your work may be displayed and/or purchased.
• For those who wish other people to email them, we will include your email address, parsed, to keep spammers from harvesting your address
• A "Send the page to a friend" link to enable you, or any visitor, to email your page URL to others using your (or their) email client, with your email address protected.
• There is no outside advertising included on your web page.

We have created a special template (#3) to show what your page would look like if you wish to display only one work. If you use templet #3, you may include a 500 word description of the single image.
Finally, you get the opportunity to cancel at any time. This is a month-to-month program with no long-term commitment requirement. Setup fees are non-refundable.

Why get involved now?

Since we are just launching this site and are looking for works from Writers working in any genre.

For a limited time we are offering special programs to encourage Writers to take advantage of this exposure.

Writers: Subscribe with a one-time setup fee of $4.95 and receive the first two months of exposure FREE. After the first two months, your PayPal account is billed $2.95 automatically at the beginning of the third month, and at the beginning of each month thereafter. Cancel your subscription at any time. Writers who come on board now are guaranteed this same rate for a minimum of one year.

Are there any rules?

Our rules are straightforward and must be accepted by you before we begin. They can be reviewed by clicking on the link below

( Submission Rules for Writers. )


How do I get started?

1. Step 1: Review our rules..
1. Go to Writer, and select a Template shown that fits your situation.
2. Step 2: Submit all information necessary.
                    Submission Form for Writers,
1. Select one or two of the graphic images (on your hard drive) that you wish to use
• Make sure they are in gif or jpg format, and each file size is under 50k.
• We can reduce the L Or H dimension to fit our size requirements, but we do not increase these dimensions for quality reasons.
3. Step 3. Writers go to Subscribe (by clicking on the "Subscribe" button at the top of any page). IMPORTANT: Insert the Unique ID Number found in the email and click on the PayPal Logo. Once we receive notice of payment from PayPal, we will begin work on your page. It should be posted in 24 - 48 hours - or sooner. Pay the $4.95 Setup fee through PayPal.