Am I wasting my time posting GCA on my LJ?
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.
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.
Read it on Beta
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