Promotion Guidelines

This year, each story will have the chance to be promoted through the official Dean/Cas Tropefest tumblr and twitter accounts. Because of this, you will not be able to create your own promo on your own blog. We ask that you instead reblog the official post.

We will need the following information:
Story Title: This can be a working title. If you want to change it later, you can. If you absolutely must, you may name it Untitled but for the best promo results you should try to think of a name that people will remember.

Story Summary: This is the summary you want the public to see. This doesn’t have to be your final summary, but this will be viewed by the public to hype them up for the story.

Rating

Warnings: For this you only need provide a warning if it contains one of the 4 major archive warnings for Ao3.

Tropes: Please provide any tropes you’d like the public to see. Hint: These always get people pumped for your story.

Story Preview: Please provide us with a portion of your story that is 300 to 500 words long.

Graphic:  Please provide us with a promotional graphic for your story that meets the criteria below

Criteria for promotional graphics

 * Graphics should be photo based. They may not include original illustrations or photomanipulation beyond cropping/editing/applying filters. (If you want that photograph of an empty bed converted to black & white, have at it.)


 * Aesthetic photo sets are perfectly welcome! Please combine them into one image.


 * You are not allowed to commission an artist or draw your own original art for your banner. (That wouldn’t be fair to your artist.)
 * You may not use existing fanart or photomanipulations to make your banner. If you are using episode screencaps, please don't use someone else's edits without their permission.


 * Graphics must follow the size guidelines for tumblr. Dimensions and file type are up to you. (When pressed, we recommend jpeg for photo-based graphics.)


 * Each banner should include the name of your story, the name of the author, and artist. Double check name spelling/format with your partner.


 * You may ask your Tropefest artist to assist you with making the graphic once you know who they are. If they have the time/desire to whip something up, they must follow the above guidelines and this will not count as one of their required pieces of art. (Does this mean your team artist cannot illustrate the promo banner? Correct. Can they illustrate the banner that will accompany your team masterpost in September? Absolutely.)


 * If you would like to include the Tropefest logo, we will provide links to the files. The challenge name should be written as “Dean/Cas Tropefest.”