Good God, but I just got filled in on the original/’reprint’ racket. Long story (heh) short: everything counts when it comes to whether a story’s a reprint, apparently. Including things like, say, Patreon accounts or websites. And the rates go through the floor. I say this with bemusement, not anger: it’s a hell of a racket, particularly since nobody seems to be actually making a mint off of it.
I’m just grateful that I discovered this on Day Two. Looks like I’m going to have to write more things that just go straight out to the publishers before anyone else sees them. I’m also contemplating whether I need to seriously reassess how long I wait before I put Patreon-generated works on this website: there’s some debate about whether things published via subscription count as reprints, and absolutely none on whether things published on websites do.
So join my Patreon, dagnabbit.
Moe Lane
PS: None of this should affect the gaming stuff, though. Different rules and I expect that I’ll be mostly self-publishing, anyway.