Soliciting Comments from Readers

[lovecraft68]

Depends on the publisher and the reaction to the story on free sites. It can bode well that a story concept has been favorably accepted by readers and give especially small publishers greater confidence in its marketability.

Not much different than someone self-publishing on Amazon, selling hundreds of thousands of e-books and then getting a publishing deal for the print versions.

I'll side with Keith on this. Most publishers will ask you to pull your free work if you tell them about it.

Also Amazon has their rule the story can't be available for less anywhere else, free is less so you can get it trouble with them.

Your analogy doesn't really make sense. Selling your book self published is still selling and not free. At that point the publisher is picking it up because they see those sales.

You can disagree if you'd like, but next month marks my 11th year selling my work, and Keith has been doing it way longer than that, so you might want to take that into consideration.

 

[Athalia]

Well, since the site doesn't allow bestiality, I'm afraid that Spot isn't going to be included. Sorry, reader!

Damn. Another story line down the drain. And I'd just finished it...