Phin Scardaw
Troubadour
Hey Scribes!
I started a time travel story a couple of years ago and started posting the chapters serially online as a way of self-promotion. I got as far as Chapter 8 before Life sidetracked me - and I think before I stopped I had about 1000 page views on Blogger...
I like the idea of using free e-books as promotional tools, but I also don't want to shoot myself in the foot since I read recently that anything published on an online blog is considered self-published - so if I wanted to try to sell the book after I'd posted it all on my blog I might run into some difficulties.
Does anyone have any advice about this kind of thing? I've recently considered either continuing to post the rest of the story online - or doing the opposite - deleting the posts I've already put up there so that if I want to I could pitch it to an agent or publisher as an unpublished piece...
Another issue I've encountered is that there are some sex scenes that make me wonder if the blog should have a disclaimer like For Mature Readers - even though the scenes aren't explicit or gratuitous, or even that numerous.
Thanks for your feedback!
I started a time travel story a couple of years ago and started posting the chapters serially online as a way of self-promotion. I got as far as Chapter 8 before Life sidetracked me - and I think before I stopped I had about 1000 page views on Blogger...
I like the idea of using free e-books as promotional tools, but I also don't want to shoot myself in the foot since I read recently that anything published on an online blog is considered self-published - so if I wanted to try to sell the book after I'd posted it all on my blog I might run into some difficulties.
Does anyone have any advice about this kind of thing? I've recently considered either continuing to post the rest of the story online - or doing the opposite - deleting the posts I've already put up there so that if I want to I could pitch it to an agent or publisher as an unpublished piece...
Another issue I've encountered is that there are some sex scenes that make me wonder if the blog should have a disclaimer like For Mature Readers - even though the scenes aren't explicit or gratuitous, or even that numerous.
Thanks for your feedback!