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Hazel Rymell
Don t expect to get paid bonuses or become successful by publishing on here
I published work on here when I discovered VM last year I didn t get feedback or reads until I joined their Facebook groups there are many You can share your VM published work on these groups then you may get more reads and feedback I even managed to get a Top Story maybe because someone from the group liked one of my poems I m sure that wouldn t have happened if I hadn t joined their FB groups Payments - I am not a paid Vocal member so obviously I dont get paid hardly anything however I should have been paid bonuses for submitting over 10 articles and the Top Story I had I didn t I asked on the Facebook groups about this I m not the only VM contributer who had not been paid bonuses - I discovered its a common thing I was told to email support I did several times but got no proper answer even got suggested by someone on the Facebook group that I had used AI and that was the reason No I don t use AI and never will All my work is original She clearly hadn t read any of my stories otherwise she wouldn t have suggested it I m still waiting to be paid what I m owed and waiting for a proper explanation as to why I m not receiving my bonuses I think like FB algorithms not everyone sees your published work When you go onto the FB vocal groups you see the same publishers all the time They always get top stories and often win competitions challenges story of the day week etc I think many of these publishers who seem to do well are actually VM moderators who read each others work so they all get hundreds of reads in order to get paid On a plus it does get your work out there your friends and others on Facebook can see it if you share it You can also share your published work on Medium Pinterest Tumbler Twitter etc in order to try and get more reads but it s harder than it sounds But making money and becoming an established writer through vocal media No