Mod Post

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Evening, all.

Earlier this week, a request was made for a fic. Someone nicely linked to a memories page that had the fic listed, but the author came in and asked that her fic not be shared. However, it seemed that people were emailing the fic to one another. I could be wrong, please correct me if I am. But this appears to be the case.

Please note: if an author askes not to have their fics linked to, please abide by this. If we upset the authors, we get no fic to read, and that would make us all pretty sad. Most are perfectly fine with us linking to their journals, and oftentimes have posted their fics to outside archives. Also, please be courteous about sharing fics. Try emailing the author to see if it would be okay to share their fics. Some may even be gracious enough to send you a hardcopy to keep on your computer. Trust me, I've emailed lots of authors, and they are generally very good about this. They will also at times unlock certain fics if there's enough of a interest.

Let's all remember to be considerate towards our fellow authors and readers.

K, SUN

Comments

[fraserette.livejournal.com]

interesting. I've never heard of this happening before.

[rinmonsterer.livejournal.com]

I don't know if we're thinking about the same 'incident', but in one of the recent posts that I have in mind, the author asked not to email her fics, because they were f-locked, so people started passing them under the table. I don't think I've ever seen any author prohibiting anyone from linking to them... But yeah, it's their call.

[court1429.livejournal.com]

I must've missed the original post, but I don't understand, at all, an author objecting to someone providing a link to her fics.

If that link turns out to be to a flocked journal, then the reader has to decide whether to friend an LJ of someone they don't know and don't necessarily want to friend (not because they object to the writer, but because there's no relationship there) and this is why I'm a fan of the various fic archives. Friending solely to read a fic is a particular peeve of mine, but has nothing to do with this comm, which is asking about fics and *getting links to same*!!

I'd think authors would want their fics to be read, no?

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

This came up a while back, too.

A fic writer had deleted her stories and asked they not
be distributed. Someone had saved them and said she had
them and a number of others asked for them to be sent
to them.

As a writer, I posted and commented that if the writer
deleted her fics, for whatever reason, and did not want
them to be read, then offering to send them out in an
open forum was rather uncool. The majority of posters
disagreed -- they wanted the stories and felt that was
the end of the discussion. But I still think an author's
wishes should be honored.