In reply to Heather.

Heh. Crawl back to Amazon…I’m still there, you know? And yeah, I like his wife’s stuff too. Plus I thought she was a great editor at F&SF years ago, or anyway I liked a lot of the stories she picked for the magazine.

Dunno about the techanics of Wattpad. But I’m going to leave the stories up, at least until they’re in an anthology, at which point the freebiness shall dissipate somewhat.

Yep, you have to sign in to Amazon to use their tech to send stuff to your Kindle. Which kinda makes sense…otherwise anybody could do it. As far as what info Amazon gathers? I’m guessing the answer is “everything they can,” same as always with them. As far as how they plan to use it, or will plan to use it in the future? Beats me.

In reply to Heather.

I’ve got nothing against doing an anthology with anyone, as long as I like their stuff. It could get a bit complicated though ’cause somebody has to collect the money and pay the other party or parties, though. Probably better to set up an LLC or some such to handle it, which can be a pain.

As for why the guy I suggested an anthology to didn’t wanna? I think it was several things. Probably better if I don’t say what they are, but the short version is he essentially ignored the suggestion.

One more thing. There’s a guy on Wattpad who is a kind of bouncer there. He writes short stories. I don’t know him much but he SELLS his stories. Maybe you should see if he’d be into anthologies. Why did that other commenter of yourn not want to collaborate on an anthology? His name is Gav. He likes Neil Gaiman.

http://www.wattpad.com/user/TheOrangutan

What kind of anthology ‘writers’ (subject matter, would you prefer? I’m not looking specifically for genres yet on Wattpad–and, honestly I hate the word genre (much as Ellison does.)

I’m, mostly, looking for people I can interact with, in some way.

Heather
wordwan

Good on you. You can always crawl back to Amazon later, but I don’t think Dean believes that either. I haven’t been reading too much of HIM yet, just his wife.

Every era (think of Madonna and MTV videos; think of “Dirty Dancing” and videocassettes) has its ‘firsties’. You can be a firstie of this concept.

I’m gonna mention this to a few writers on Wattpad. Especially ones who are ‘workin’ it…

Heather
wordwan

P. S. I’m thinking about setting up a something on Wattpad, and it would be REALLY HELPFUL if there was a way to ‘link’ your dustjackets, rather than upload them. I’m working with what I got, presently, on Wattpad. And did you notice? They did a real cool thing. You can EDIT the posting date on your piece. I now wish youtube had that.

Here’s a good question: A “Send to Kindle” button. Did someone think the only place a Kindled item would live was ON Amazon? Do you have to ‘sign in’ to Amazon, to use this button? How does that button work? Does any information ‘travel’ through Amazon when you use that button?

And color me dumb. Yer gonna take the Wattpad stories DOWN every week? I’m thinking ahead here.