Re: The pervasive effect of the better idea

Lucy Kemnitzer wrote:
_The Donor_ is I guess a trunk story, as are the others: I like them,
but no publishers wanted it. So I stuck them there because I'd rather
be read than not. The numbers look sort of paltry compared to print,
or even compared to online authors I know of: but the counter only
counts unique readers who do not have their browsers set to refuse
cookies.

I think it's a cool thing to do! I run a web site called theassayer.org, which catalogs free books, and accepts user-submitted reviews. There are
a lot of nonfiction books that are free on the web, but I haven't run
across much free fiction. (Of course there's Project Gutenberg, but
theassayer.org is intended for modern books that have been intentionally
set free by their authors.) I've added The Donor to The Assayer's
catalog. Hope it steers a few readers your way. BTW, you might want to
list the byline a little more prominently on your page. There's the link
that says Back to the Crystal Egg, which looked to me like it was the
name of another story.

If anyone here has read The Donor, and wants to submit a review to
theassayer.org, that would be great. You just have to set up an
account and then click on the link on the book's page to review it.

Here lately almost every writer I know anything about has some of
their writing online, either the kind of thing I've done, or more
often, short excerpts from pieces that are published elsewhere.

If there are other examples of complete online novels (not old
public domain ones), I'd love to hear about them so I can add
them to the catalog. The current list of novels in English is
here:
http://www.theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbrowsesubject.cgi?class=P#freeclassPZ
.

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