Urgh

[bladespark]

I take it back. Webooks is a load of crap, run by people who have somehow blundered into attracting a lot of good writers, but are themselves idiots.

Screw 'em.

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[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Why, what happened?

[lightgreendryad.livejournal.com]

Is there another option to publish your work other than the tedious sending out of cover letters to publishers?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Not one that pays me for it. I could publish with a vanity press, but they wouldn't edit my work, and they wouldn't get my work in bookstores, they'd just print up a bunch of books and send me a couple, and sort of pretend to be trying to sell the rest.

Or I could self-publish, and while that's less of a rip off, in that case they still wouldn't edit, and they'd print up a bunch of books and send me all of them, and I'd be on my own from there on out.

And both of those options cost $$$$$$$

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I found out that they have "invisible rules." I got a post deleted when it was 100% within the written rules of their site, but a moderator didn't like it, so *poof* it was gone.

And this is apparently a very common, ongoing thing on their forums. I wonder if they're puzzled about why their forums are kind of dead compared to the number of people active on their site?