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Wes
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Date Posted: 16:08:24 07/13/09 Mon
>Bad example.
>A personal opinion of course, but "Snowplow Extra" is
>easily the least saleable story on this site. For a
>more objective view count your sales, probably just
>the "dead tree" ones because "download ahead of time"
>came later. I'm not going to try and put the others
>in any kind of order because I don't see any point to
>it.
You're probably right that Snowplow is not a good example, but it was what my thinking was based on, so I have to live with it. The simple fact of the matter was that I didn't feel like going through all those hassles again with the kind of track record I'd experienced.
I would rather have just sat down in my shop and kicked out a story when I happened to feel like it, and maybe run off a story or two for my friends before going through all that pointless beating my head against the wall. That's what I did for a number of years before I decided to experiment with putting this stuff online. The results have been much better than I expected, and I really enjoy the positive feedback -- and yes, the helpful negative feedback -- that I get from my readers. The feedback has helped my writing a lot, and I've learned a great deal from it.
I have a couple stories not in the Spearfish Lake universe stuck back that I'm not planning on posting in the near future, just in case someone wants to come to me with an offer. I'm not holding my breath, but they are there if they are wanted.
The point is that with the online publishing the stories stand on their own merit with readers, without anyone else's opinion filtering what readers get to read. If people like my stories, fine. Glad to have you. If not, that's their decision (they're not reading this) and I can't fault them for it. They are free to look elsewhere and it hasn't cost them anything except for a little time.
As I've said elsewhere, publishing on the Internet is sort of like a guy playing a guitar on a street corner. It's direct producer-to-consumer, and I find that I'm liking it. What's more, to some degree I think that online publishing is to a degree the future of publishing. We shall see.
-- Wes
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