Hey all,
I'm doing the 52 Week Story Challenge (thanks again Phillip McCollum!) and posting the stories on my website. Not a lot of traffic there: maybe a couple members of my family and a few friends, if I'm lucky. Can I still submit these stories for publication elsewhere? I can't seem to find any definitive guidelines or "rules" about this. Maybe I can only submit them as Reprints...? I dunno. Anybody have any experience with this that can share some links?
Thanks,
Morgan
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If you were to submit them anywhere, you'd unfortunately have to do it as reprints. Publishing online, even to a tiny audience, counts as publishing.
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Publisher submission guidelines occasion whether a given publication considers self-published stories posted on a personal website first publication rights expended. Some say yes, some say nothing, a very few say no. Too many publications to sort those and links out from among the fray.
Everyday Fiction says yes, unequivocal, self-published on a personal site is first publication rights exhausted. Fourth paragraph. One common exception is whether access is public or a restricted access. A password or "Friend" only restriction amounts to non-public publication exception. Everyday Fiction's policy is guide enough for overall professionals' consideration.
Definitely only count as reprints. Even stories originally posted on Patreon--where they're locked away--get considered as reprints by most markets (e.g. PodCastle).
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Thanks everyone!
"You can either sit here and write, or you can sit here and do nothing. But you can’t sit here and do anything else."
— Neil Gaiman, Masterclass
Drop me a line at https://morganbroadhead.com
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HMx4
R/RWCx5
Publisher submission guidelines occasion whether a given publication considers self-published stories posted on a personal website first publication rights expended. Some say yes, some say nothing, a very few say no. Too many publications to sort those and links out from among the fray.
Everyday Fiction says yes, unequivocal, self-published on a personal site is first publication rights exhausted. https://edubirdie.com/paraphrasing-tool . One common exception is whether access is public or a restricted access. A password or "Friend" only restriction amounts to non-public publication exception. Everyday Fiction's policy is guide enough for overall professionals' consideration.
Thanks for the explanation on this. It's the information I was looking for.
