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hiddencaitHey all,
I know this tends to be an all "Dear Exchange Author Letter" all the time kind of profile, but I have a question and it seems to be one folks here would have good insight on.
I am working hard to start bringing in funds with my writing little by little via different income streams in hopes of eventually earning my portion of our household bills part time via writing. And one of the ways I want to do that is to start self-publishing, as well as releasing things via small press and trad pub (since both of the latter take a long time to get books out but on the upside don't require any upfront money from me the way self-pub does). But anyway!
My specific question is in regards to some of the Jane Austen fanfiction I've already posted on AO3. I've seen different folks just take their fics down from that site once they are ready to self-pub, usually with an update to the Summary section that it will no longer be on AO3 as of such date or what not. I don't have any novel length fics for that yet, but I did realize I have several longer short stories that are all epistolary for P&P rare pairs and thus would make a themed anthology pretty easily so I'm tempted to take them down for that.
My concern is that most of them were written for fic exchanges and are "gifts" to different people. Should I try to private message/comment to them that the fics are likely to come down so they can donate PDFs, etc?
Jane Austen/classics fanfiction is one of those odd grey areas for publishing, and having it originally written for fic exchanges adds another complication into the mix, so I just figured I'd see how folks felt about it/what they recommended.
I like the idea of JA fanfiction for one of my self-pub pen names because it would still have that sense of "fun/hobby" writing I get for fanfic which I miss sometimes when writing original novels, you know?
Anyway, random rambling, but I'd appreciate y'all's thoughts :)
I know this tends to be an all "Dear Exchange Author Letter" all the time kind of profile, but I have a question and it seems to be one folks here would have good insight on.
I am working hard to start bringing in funds with my writing little by little via different income streams in hopes of eventually earning my portion of our household bills part time via writing. And one of the ways I want to do that is to start self-publishing, as well as releasing things via small press and trad pub (since both of the latter take a long time to get books out but on the upside don't require any upfront money from me the way self-pub does). But anyway!
My specific question is in regards to some of the Jane Austen fanfiction I've already posted on AO3. I've seen different folks just take their fics down from that site once they are ready to self-pub, usually with an update to the Summary section that it will no longer be on AO3 as of such date or what not. I don't have any novel length fics for that yet, but I did realize I have several longer short stories that are all epistolary for P&P rare pairs and thus would make a themed anthology pretty easily so I'm tempted to take them down for that.
My concern is that most of them were written for fic exchanges and are "gifts" to different people. Should I try to private message/comment to them that the fics are likely to come down so they can donate PDFs, etc?
Jane Austen/classics fanfiction is one of those odd grey areas for publishing, and having it originally written for fic exchanges adds another complication into the mix, so I just figured I'd see how folks felt about it/what they recommended.
I like the idea of JA fanfiction for one of my self-pub pen names because it would still have that sense of "fun/hobby" writing I get for fanfic which I miss sometimes when writing original novels, you know?
Anyway, random rambling, but I'd appreciate y'all's thoughts :)
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Date: 2024-09-03 04:36 pm (UTC)It's considered pretty beyond the pale to take down exchange fics. That's where I wouldn't do that, but write something different for the same rare pair - I'm sure you're quite capable of that!
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Date: 2024-09-03 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-03 09:48 pm (UTC)Oh believe me, I get it! I have some serious work to do in order to climb my TBW mountain myself! And I have a couple origfic exchange stories that would be great for similar purposes and I can't use them - totally the most annoying thing ever.
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Date: 2024-09-04 12:58 pm (UTC)And yeah, the downsides of being a decent human when certain things could make life much easier lolsob. And same - I don't do many original fics for exchanges, but the one I did could EASILY be extended just a smidge and posted as a fantasy erotica novella under a different pen name. It also could be the start of REALLY long why choose extra spicy romantasy but that's definitely more words than I want to deal with writing right now. Oof.
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Date: 2024-09-07 01:32 pm (UTC)It's so hard to step back from fanfic! I'm trying to keep my latest ficathon story very short, minimal, to-the-point, which is hard, because I know everyone goes overboard and writes thousands of words when it's a 500 word minimum.
It's so hard to be a decent human being. Especially when this is the case. I get it, trust me. But I didn't realize you wrote original fic and published (self-pub?) too. I haven't put as much out there as I'd like. It's a lot of work.
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Date: 2024-09-19 05:28 pm (UTC)And I am trying! I actually had my first traditional pub credit hit in August - I have a short story in a YA horror anthology which I was super thrilled with. I also have a queer trailer park urban fantasy thing that is supposed to come out this year from a reputable small press but there's been a lot of delays so who knows when that will actually drop. I have yet to self-pub because it previously REALLY intimidated me with all the work involved (still does honestly), but I finally realized that if I eventually want to make at least a part time "living" from writing, I need to have multiple income streams and being a hybrid author is the best way I can see to make it happen.
Now to just actually FINISH things. I currently have open 1) the sequel to the trailer park thing, 2) an adult cozy fantasy (for possible querying of agents and/or self pub), 3) a YA zombie horror thing (also for querying to agents since YA really doesn't do as well with small press or self-pub), and 4) a JA fanfiction thing but with ghosts that is intended for self-pub but might actually end up small press as the genre blend might not appeal as much to the hardcore JA fanficcers on Amazon. IDEK. OPTIONS.
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Date: 2024-09-29 06:49 pm (UTC)I am super interested in all of these things, and that queer trailer park urban fantasy thing sounds AMAZING. This is a late comment, so is it available yet? Can I buy it? Where's the anthology and tell me which short story I need to go for first?
And that YA thing should definitely get queried, I bet it'd do well. Also, cozy is in these days in pro fic, you should definitely query that.
I have one short story in a charity anthology to my name (did I already say that? this is a late with Starbucks conversation and no shame on that, life is so busy!) and I need to self-pub the two things I have completed - a novel and a novella - and up my short story game so I can submit.
The novel is queer polyamorous urban fantasy and I just don't think that'll go well with agents. Polyamory is always a little iffy. The novella is something I like, but it's definitely not something I want to query; I have some feelings about the characters' identities and the current discourse. I don't even know if I'm even going to self-pub it without stripping some of that away.
Now if only this Stargate sociopath AU would get finished so I could also focus on, uh, origfic. I'm incapable of leaving my blorbos alone though.
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Date: 2024-10-01 01:04 pm (UTC)