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DarkElfChilde
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Can you guys add Splinter Cell? the novels are great and the games are equally great too.
<_< just wondering.
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dolarabee
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Can you wait 3 weeks and then drop a message via the contact form - we're away for a few more weeks so will look later. The message via the support form will make sure we don't forget it. Cheers.
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Haleth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Any chance of getting a category for original stories?
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Viv
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the cateogry culling. The sections with zero stories were a little depressing. I read something on AICN about a new Witchblade movie (tv movie?) coming down the pike, so there might be renewed interest in that fandom soon. |
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Haleth wrote: | | Any chance of getting a category for original stories? |
We'll be thinking on that when we rejiggle everything.
do.
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dolarabee
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| Viv wrote: | | Thanks for the cateogry culling. The sections with zero stories were a little depressing. |
Tell us about it!
I know that it's nice to see the category there, even empty, because you hope someone will post something soon, or that will get to write that story yourself, but it's been over a year now...
| Viv wrote: | | I read something on AICN about a new Witchblade movie (tv movie?) coming down the pike, so there might be renewed interest in that fandom soon. |
Oh... that would be nice!
Thanks, Viv.
do.
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Haleth
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| dolarabee wrote: | | Haleth wrote: | | Any chance of getting a category for original stories? |
We'll be thinking on that when we rejiggle everything.
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Excellent! (in best Mr. Burns voice)
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Viv
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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The problem with posting original fiction online is that you open yourself up for a copyright headache unless you've already registered your copyright (in the U.S., I think it's something like $20, and you get a nifty official-looking stamped piece of paper).
Many publishers are unwilling, categorically, to publish anything that has been published even in bits on the Internet.
It's probably safer to find a group of friends who are similarly looking to polish some pieces for publication and group up with them in a private space.
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DarkElfChilde
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | The problem with posting original fiction online is that you open yourself up for a copyright headache unless you've already registered your copyright (in the U.S., I think it's something like $20, and you get a nifty official-looking stamped piece of paper).
Many publishers are unwilling, categorically, to publish anything that has been published even in bits on the Internet.
It's probably safer to find a group of friends who are similarly looking to polish some pieces for publication and group up with them in a private space.
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It's $50...
But why spend that when you can use a Creative Commons license...? Which is free. If no one has heard about it, here's what it is:
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization with a mission to expand private rights to create public goods, creative works set free for certain uses.
Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any member of the public but only on certain conditions.
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Haleth
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | The problem with posting original fiction online is that you open yourself up for a copyright headache unless you've already registered your copyright (in the U.S., I think it's something like $20, and you get a nifty official-looking stamped piece of paper).
Many publishers are unwilling, categorically, to publish anything that has been published even in bits on the Internet.
It's probably safer to find a group of friends who are similarly looking to polish some pieces for publication and group up with them in a private space.
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That wouldn't be a problem for me. I have no ambitions of being published. It's way too much work.
It could be a nasty shock for other people who don't know the rules, though.
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Sulriel
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The main thing authors have to understand about putting work online is that it's considered "published" and as hard as it is to sell original fiction, it's 10xs harder to sell 'reprints'.
As long as the author doesn't have any intentions of trying later to sell the work (first rights) to a publisher there shouldn't be any problem.
- that's my understanding of it anyway.
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Sulriel
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | The problem with posting original fiction online is that you open yourself up for a copyright headache unless you've already registered your copyright (in the U.S., I think it's something like $20, and you get a nifty official-looking stamped piece of paper).
Many publishers are unwilling, categorically, to publish anything that has been published even in bits on the Internet.
It's probably safer to find a group of friends who are similarly looking to polish some pieces for publication and group up with them in a private space.
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work can be posted to a critique group (like at the Garden, and additionally the original forum has the second layer of membership requirement) (or critters) as long as it's "members only" and password protected - then it isn't considered as having been published.
I think if this archive wanted to host an original archive, ... maybe do it like the village? membership required?
but that would limit your readership, so it would depend on why it was being posted. Is it original work that authors just want to post and share like our fanfiction or is it for feedback to improve the work for publication?
my hesitation would be for someone to start posting a 'fun' story, then get 'more serious' about it and have screwed themselves because it's been posted online.
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dolarabee
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This is all why we haven't done this before now... it's a bit of a web and we're wary of it.
Anyone with insights into this are welcome to share them here, please.
do.
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Sulriel
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| dolarabee wrote: | This is all why we haven't done this before now... it's a bit of a web and we're wary of it.
Anyone with insights into this are welcome to share them here, please.
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as far as I know, there isn't much, if any, potential trouble for the archive. It's just a matter of offering the author another venue to self-publish. The problem comes on the author's end if they don't realize that posting online is viewed as having been published - they could be in for a rude awakening if they try to market the same work commercially.
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Haleth
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Legally it wouldn't be a problem but it's easy to see how an author who wasn't aware of the rules of publishing could make life miserable for the people running the archive with nasty messages saying why didn't you warn me, how dare you and it's all your fault. That sort of thing. This is even if you had a warning posted in a blinking, scrolling, 72 point font on the publish story page.
It's ridiculous, but I can easily see it happening. People can get a little emotional.
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