Am I wasting my time posting GCA on my LJ?

[seawasp]

EDIT: Thanks all for the responses, I'm not wasting my time, so I will continue!

I've seen virtually no replies (except from people already on my Beta list!) on my snippets, so I don't know if anyone is reading those posts. Some people on my friends list I know would not care to, or need to, read the snippets, so I suppose it's possible that anyone who IS interested in reading my stuff (at least prior to it actually being available in paper form) has already joined my Beta list and thus posting it here on my LJ is wasted effort.

Comments

[tychist.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry. My reaction was "But I just want the book" I'd already put it on my list to get as soon as it came out and I'm looking forward to that immensely. I hadn't realized it would seem like a snub.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

I also prefer whole books, personally. Also, November is a month when many, many people are swamped with NaNo and spending less time following other people's stuff than they would otherwise.

[seawasp]

It's not a "snub" as such, just a matter of whether I'd already essentially shown this to anyone inclined to read it piecemeal. There's plenty of people who DON'T do that and just want to read it when the book comes out in full, a perfectly understandable idea.

[chuk-g.livejournal.com]

I'm in that boat, too -- I already read one early excerpt and got anxious for the whole thing, so I'm going to wait. But it's easy enough to skip those posts.

[dsrtao]

Maybe you need to get more publicity. PW's Genreville, http://smallbeerpress.com/category/not-a-journal/, and SFSignal.com might be interested.

[seawasp]

More publicity is always good. I'll take a look.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in your snippets, but this week has been hell for me. Before I even opened LJ and saw your post this morning, I'd been thinking, "Must go back and read. Must go back and read."

I enjoyed other snippets I'd read of yours and am looking forward to reading (most likely tomorrow or this weekend) so I hope you continue to post.

[seawasp]

You know, I'd like to see you have a week that *ISN'T* hell. Really, I am always worried about what evil thing the fates have planned for you. Good luck!

[kjn]

Personally, I've enjoyed the snippets you've posted so far.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post these snippets in the first place, if you want to make some public splash or buzz about the book. Sending it to Eric might be a better option for that.

[seawasp]

They're also being posted on the Bar. I'm not restricting this to one place. I may even post them on my Amazon blog, if I can figure out how to FIND it again and post.

[kjn]

That's great.

I was a regular of the Bar, but it was slowly devolving into uselessness (for me, at least) so I hardly ever visit it anymore.

[illian.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that. I'm currently slammed with things and it slipped my mind to make comments.

[kira-snugz.livejournal.com]

my laptop went kablooie the other dasy, and i'm acessing lj through my wii, i havn't got a wireless keyobard for it, so all my typing is done with the wii remote, and drives me up the wall. i am reading and enjoying throughm, its just so fricking hard to say asnything!

[seawasp]

Ohh, I hear that. It must be as bad as trying to make detailed comments using my iPhone, which drives me nuts.

[rasmusb.livejournal.com]

Well -- it started me re-reading the beta copy. :D Does that count?

[seawasp]

Heh. In a way, yes, it does.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I like it, tho I've only just started reading it. ^_^;

[seawasp]

Thanks!

[j-v-lynch.livejournal.com]

While I appreciate your efforts, I've not been reading it.

[seawasp]

Appreciation is good. :)

[brent-kellmer.livejournal.com]

I'll admit that I haven't been reading them thus far, but that's largely because I'm adjusting to the heightened wordcount necessary for Nanowrimo (but that's just this month). However, if there's room on your beta list, I'd love to be added.

[seawasp]

There's always room; the only requirement is that you comment with some reasonable frequency, as the point is for me to get feedback. You don't have to comment on every single story and every single chapter, just don't go silent for months.

Join the community "rykspoor_beta" and it'll just send me a message to approve your joining; once I do that, you're set and can go read all the backlog you like.

Read it on Beta

[tamahori]

Making chapter by chapter feedback would seem a bit redundant after the comment storm I've already inflicted on you. :)

It depends if you're looking for feedback, or just looking to get it in front of more eyes, because there will be people that will be seeing it there that wouldn't ever bother signing up on your beta reading list. And these are likely to be the same people who don't tend to give feedback.

So I think putting this up here is generally a good thing, for the same reason that letting it get snipped on the Baen Snippets site is also good.

As I recall, it was you snipping the prologue to Polychrome that got me signed up on your Beta site in the first place of course. :)

-- Brett

[ldsman.livejournal.com]

It has peeked my interest. I will be sure to post more and lurk less.

[qhudspeth.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I've pretty much skipped over those posts as too long to look at right away. I have intended to go back and read them, but it has slipped down the to do list.

I appreciate the effort, though. I think it's usually good to tease people with a few demo chapters, even if they don't read them right away. But then, that thought is completely unfounded on actual experience or data. Just seems like one of those marketing schemes you hear about that so many people are saying works 100% and will save your career! I suppose in this case, it depends on how widely read is your LJ.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I enjoy it, but I'm actually waiting for the published book to hold and read. :) Besides I've commented on it already. ;)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

I find it hard to read that much text, even if well spaced, as a blog. Anything more than a "page" or two and I lose focus. Now if it was downloadable as a mobipocket file (or more likely a series of mobipocket files) that would be much more readable.

By the way, I'm assuming the full book will be available as an ebook through fictionwise.com?

[shana.livejournal.com]

Ebook through Baen Webscriptions.

[seawasp]

It's a Baen book, so it'll be available from Baen directly; IIRC, they offer their Ebooks in multiple formats.

LJ Snippets?

[gossg.livejournal.com]

There's also us late-finders. I went googling for "Harriman Delosius and the Anonymity War" to find whether there was an earlier story or novel, and instead discovered a live-journal "annotated" version of the novel.

Assuming that these snippets continue to the end, with a high level of authorial presence, this collection should be pointed to from the GCA website.

Re: LJ Snippets?

[seawasp]

No, the public LJ snippets of GCA only go about 2/3 of the way.

The beta group is the place where the whole thing, including older draft pieces, was posted. Even Baen's Bar doesn't get the whole thing posted on it.