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Rant. Brace yourself. This is me not being terribly nice, but being very real.

First rights are important in publishing. This is why where you publish your book matters. Yes, it's true that more good publishers are willing to take a risk on something that's been self-pubbed or badly pubbed (provided the rights have reverted), but it's also still ( Read more... )

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I don't get it.

And before you start in on it, YES, I understand that occasionally people have personal problems. And YES, I do agree that authors have the right to do with their fics what they want. For the life of me, I never understand why that's the counterargument. Maybe some people are saying the author doesn't have the right to take fics ( Read more... )

It's no secret that I am very, VERY against the practice of pulling fics to publish, and there are a lot of reasons for that. But pursuant to a discussion on A Different Forest last night, I want to clarify one of them. 
If there's one thing that I hope is always true of me, it is that I do legwork when I have an argument to make. I don't believe in ( Read more... )

   

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