Man, am I out of the loop.

[rj_anderson]

So where are the cool kids submitting HP fics these days?

I've done my duty by Fiction Alley, of course, and eventually I'll probably get around to putting this fic up at the Pit of Voles, just for the sake of those who have me on Author Alert. The Sugar Quill is no longer an option, alas, but I'm open to other suggestions as to where I should put this "Secrets and Lies" thing so that people who've read and liked the Darkness and Light trilogy (and hey, even some who haven't) would be likely to see it...

Comments

Re: Speaking of being out of the loop...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

You mean 2004, I think. :)

Re: Speaking of being out of the loop...

[risti.livejournal.com]

lol. Yes.

Re: Speaking of being out of the loop...

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

It starts here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/risti/2004/10/02/) pretty much.

But this summary is brill:

"Do you ever feel like you're back in juinor high, being asked to account for why you told your friend the nasty rumours your other friends were spreading? I guess in some ways, especially amoung us women, we never really leave that phase. We just think of more sophisticated ways of doing it than passing a note in math class, with instructions to make sure a certain person doesn't see it."

Re: Speaking of being out of the loop...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Actually, that wasn't the controversy in question: it was later in the month and into November that the confuffle started. I didn't pull my fics from SQ until lydaclunas and pharnabazus's fics were suddenly demoted from the Professor's Bookshelf (top-quality fics everybody reads) to the Library (second-tier fics that don't get read as much), apparently solely because they were friends with risti (who had submitted a perfectly readable, thoroughly betaed fic that got rejected from SQ for reasons which were never made clear) and narcissam (who had become persona non grata after taking up risti's cause and questioning the Quill's submission policies).

The whole thing basically boiled down to "Being on the Quill is a special privilege, and if you have the eggs to question anything we do or say or intimate that our policies or moderatorial decisions might ever be unfair -- even if you do so outside the Quill in your own LiveJournal -- we'll toss you out on your ear without notice." Which is, of course, within their rights -- it's their site -- but when this policy is extended to the friends and acquaintances of those so blacklisted, it starts to get more than a little ridiculous... and that's pretty much why I left SQ.

Re: Speaking of being out of the loop...

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Teh Drama = yerchh.