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Originally Posted by Graham
I think it would be OK if it was a story that hadn't been published elsewhere, as long as the author was happy that we were all going to go through a review, critique and edit process. We should all be engaged with that.
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Very well
Submitting an existing story is OK, but it has to be expected that the story will be critiqued, and that changes could be suggested.
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I was thinking of using a story that I wrote last year that would benefit from rework, rather than writing a new one from scratch.
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That's OK as well. It adds to the learning experience for all of us.
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On the distribution front, I think it would be best if the anthology was distributed just by you - assuming you're happy with being the editor - and we all just link to it.
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I'm open to any suggestions. My experience with this is nil, nada, zilch. I'll be creating a Smashwords account (assuming I can, outside the US). If everybody is fine with it, I'll post the athology in there, and in the MobileRead library.
edit: Smashwords has a Premium Book program, where they push the book into other stores if the work meets certain formatting guidelines. I intend to follow these guidelines, so the work will end up at more stores than Smashwords, to be "bought" at a price of $0.
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And I agree that we should come up with a suitable agreement where we can then use our own stories later on as we wish, on the understanding that the anthology will remain available and free. Allowing a period of exclusivity of, say, six months sounds fine to me.
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Seconded.
My suggestion:
- The anthology will always be free.
- It will be posted to the MobileRead library, as a minimum.
- Each of the contributing authors can post/promote the anthology wherever they wish, as long as they don't change it, and keep it free.
- The stories will have 6 months of exclusivity in the anthology, starting from the date it is first posted.
- After these six months, the authors can do with the short stories whatever they want.
- Each story, if provided for download seperately, should have a reference to two download locations the anthology; one being the MobileRead library, the other being a store, author website, for example.
I have a feeling that trying to sell a story that is always available for free in an anthology might not be a good idea. Customers could get angry at you. Even if we leave the reference to the anthology out of the individual stories, customers might find out by searching for the author's name. At some point in time, Google WILL come up with the anthology.