About sharing Xie's fic

[xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com]

Hi, everyone!

miss_alysandra suggested I post this here.

I very much support efforts to archive, back up, and preserve fandom creative works. It breaks my heart when something vanishes when a journal is deleted or a site taken down.

That's why all my fic is not only on my own journals, but also in the Archive of Our Own. So if I get hit by a bus, it will still be available to anyone who wants to read it or share it.

Here's the thing, though: I have not been hit by a bus. I'm still in fandom. Still writing. Still posting both on IJ and LJ as well as Twitter and Tumblr. Even commenting here from time to time.

I am not hard to find.

So if you -- an individual or community, including this one -- want to archive my fic, please ask me first.

In most cases I'm going to say no, not because I'm an evil hateful bitch who doesn't want her fic preserved, but because I want to be able to control where my fic is posted on the web in case I find an error and want to correct it, or if a site is transferred or sold to another owner and I don't support their policies, or a few other situations I've seen arise in other fandoms over the years. Just as an example, the upload of my "Only Time" series on this community's 4Shared archive has the wrong title on it, and I have no ability to fix that.

If you want to download one of my fics to your own e-reader, you don't need to ask. If you want to link to anything I've written, you don't need to ask, as long as you're linking to A03 or my journal. And my journal is unlocked and always will be.

But please don't upload my stories to the web. And if you have a good reason to want to, please ask me first. And I'd be very grateful if this community would remove my fic from its archive on 4Shared.

Thank you.

Xie

Comments

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting us know, Xie.

To make sure we have it right, you don't want your fic uploaded, but you are still okay with comm members sharing your fic with each other by email?

Oh, and could you add a subject line? :) Thanks again!

[xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com]

I am absolutely fine with individuals sharing my fic via email for their own personal use. It's just about uploads that I'm concerned.

I've added a subject line, and thank you so much!

Xie

[wouldbedorothy.livejournal.com]

Your fics have been removed. (Thank you, Tita!)

[qafmaniac.livejournal.com]

YW! ;-)

[xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com]

And I should also mention that as soon as I post the final chapter of "Only Time," I'm going to create and upload a PDF of the entire story to my own website, so that anyone who wants to can download it. :)

[brokeaholic.livejournal.com]

A PDF would be awesome!

Looking so forward to the final chapter. I LOVE your fics so much. ♥

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

You mean you're actually gonna finish it? XDD

[upsadaisymaisie.livejournal.com]

So delighted to hear that you're going to finish the ONLY TIME series...it so deserves to be completed. Wonderful story. Please let it be soon.