RE: I Feel Like I'm Back — WeAreAliveAndSocial

Yeah for Kindle unlimited its not allowed, but it is allowed for standard, for Royal Road it is okay to edit and release a new edition essentially, but if I want to submit any stories to magazines I wouldnt be allowed to give them even heavily edited pieces of previous work.

I didn't know about any of this up until recently, so yeah, in a way it is counter-productive for authors to pen and publish work here on Hive, or anywhere publicly if they have the intention of trying to use that work at a later stage for unlimited kdp or magazines, or even standard (because I think I read that the work will be scanned and potential customers will be told that they can read it for free online)

I'm kind of at a crossroads now, where I need to start thinking about how I should proceed.

I can continue to write here, and publish work where I have restrictions down the line, or I can write and save my new stories for publication elsewhere, down the line.

One thing I am thinking of doing is, editing and potentially retconning elements of previous stories for release on Royal Road, and later, the standard kdp for full releases.

Then hold off on publishing any new stories, so I can submit to magazines, or save them specifically to publishing on kindle unlimited.

To be honest, even if I wanted to go for kindle unlimited, it wouldn't make much of a difference because I don't have much of a following. Royal Road, could get more eyeballs on my work, which would help a lot when I decide to publish my work in the future. Magazines would help with accolades (if I had a story accepted)

I have bought a bunch of equipment recently to start recording/ livestreaming my model-making, where I scultp aliens and creatures from the stories and talk about the lore and culture of the particular thing I'm working on. That could be a good way of building up a following too, and since I'll only be sharing lore, it wouldn't negetively affect any of the other avenues I want to go down.

As I mentioned in the post, writing regularly here on Hive has been a huge benefit, based on the sheer amount I have written. Experience is the biggest thing I have received, and I have really filled out the world-building and lore aspect of Off-World since being here. So, I'm not too sad that I have posted my work, as it has been very beneficial but I do need to start thinking stratigically moving forward

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mrtats 8 days ago

I would say publishing on Hive is a bit counter-productive for you then. Especially, if you want to enroll in Kindle Unlimited plans. Amazon does not like having a copy of your work that can be read for free (even if in its unedited form) and given that all things you publish live permanently on Hive, that might create a barrier.

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killerwot 8 days ago

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