For the big bang authors on the board, how do you feel about PDF and other e-pub versions of your work? I'm reading a story now where the authors have been asked several times for a pdf and are refusing - not because they don't know how to make one but because they don't want that version of their work distributed. I'm confused as to why that is objectionable - is there some advantage to having an LJ only version of a story?

Got that "...what do I do with all this...*time*, now?" feeling, do you? Sit by the computer and hit refresh waiting for fb, of course! Or read all the other BBs you haven't had time to more than register while your head was down concentrating on yours.

Or, take a walk, work in the garden, hit the gym, have a spa day! Congratulations on finishing and getting it posted. It's on my queue.

I think they want to have control of the text, lcat. If you make a PDF or an epub version, they can't edit that. You can take it away and it's frozen in time. Also, you can distribute it as you will.

Congrats, Anne! Whew! That's one hell of a bang!

Control of the text makes sense. As a non-writer, I think if I ever managed to do any kind of creative writing and was asked for a pdf, I'd just be chuffed that people liked my work enough to want to save it to their hard drive!

Castiel meets the Ghostfacers.

Heh. "Have a nice day."

Also lcat, some fic authors will eventually rework and propub a fic. But in order to do that there must be no previous versions of the story in existance. If someone produced a fanfic version after a story was professionally published, the author would be vulnerable to legal action by the publisher.

If someone produced a fanfic version after a story was professionally published, the author would be vulnerable to legal action by the publisher.

That's not entirely true. If the story had been changed in any way, it wouldn't be the same version anyway, i.e. not the one copyrighted.

I think a lot of that is scary stories new writers tell themselves. Traditionally publishing doesn't actually care about fanfic, unless someone is making money on fic written about one of their copyrighted books or franchises.

Jollysnidge just reworked one of her longest fics into a novel. It's double the length now, and has no SPN characters in it. I think the story was strong enough for that. She has no fear of having them associated--she just published a teaser of the story at the end of the fanfic,

For a palate-cleanser from all the angsty Big Bang stories out there, here's a funny Gen story that's a quick read (2212 words): The Secret Diary of Lucifer by Hella. It's Lucifer's diary, telling his version of season 5, much in the style of Bridget Jones. I found it very, very funny.

Death claims lemon detox diet is doing wonders for his figure. Think he looks like pale twig, but know better than to mention it. Have learned tact after recipient of particularly dirty look from Sam Winchester when mentioned head looks like it had roadkill strapped to it.

Hair apparently v. touchy subject. Nick’s hair is dry and stands up at front like meerkat sensing danger. Trying to plaster it down, limited success.

Perhaps is angel-related hairstyle? Castiel appears to have same trouble, and is much younger and weaker. Odd angel. Like him though. Wish I had trenchcoat. Look like out-of-work farmer.

Thank you all! I'm still stunned that I actually made it.

how do you feel about PDF and other e-pub versions of your work?

I'm all for it, which is one of the reasons I like AO3--it does the conversion for you. Yeah, it means that there might be typo-infested versions of my stuff floating around out there, but my thoughts that are if I put something out there and want people to read it, I should make it as accessible as possible.

Morgana, thanks for the rec! That looks hilarious.