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[lucy]

H Dean: Do you get paid well for selling your stories? Do you get paid per sale, or per story? Are the stories at all linked to your real name/ID? If it is possible to sell stories completely anonymously, then I may be interested.

Sorry if I chime in, especially since I'm not H Dean. I get paid per book. Whether it's paid well or not is difficult to say. I get 40% of the sales price. That used to be quite OK, but with sales being made in $ and me having to convert them into Swiss Francs and the current exchange rates for the $ falling faster than a basejumper I feel increasingly screwed ... and not in a good way either

By my reckoning the only thing that needs to be linked to the real you is a Paypal account. But I guess for someone a bit more adept than me it could be possible to veil that, too. Either way, the only person who would know your name is your publisher. Which, in my case, has an alias himself.

[H Dean]

Sorry if I chime in, especially since I'm not H Dean. I get paid per book. Whether it's paid well or not is difficult to say. I get 40% of the sales price. That used to be quite OK, but with sales being made in $ and me having to convert them into Swiss Francs and the current exchange rates for the $ falling faster than a basejumper I feel increasingly screwed ... and not in a good way either

By my reckoning the only thing that needs to be linked to the real you is a Paypal account. But I guess for someone a bit more adept than me it could be possible to veil that, too. Either way, the only person who would know your name is your publisher. Which, in my case, has an alias himself.

Here I thought you would remain neutral on the matter.

[Curtis]

Reviews — My sole story on this site received three insightful reviews at the time, and three personal e-mails, which were equally useful. I counted myself very fortunate. Not a single 'good story' response in the bunch, and I learned something from each of them. (I believe that it has received additional reviews in the intervening years, but I don't receive notice of reviews… or of responses to my own reviews, and I don't know why. Is Safari an incompatible browser?)

I am not fond of the comment system on GaggedUtopia's site. I rather like that the numerical values can be posted anonymously, and that you can re-rate every time an update is posted, but I HATE the anonymous commenting. Almost invariably it's inane, and if you post criticism the next five comments are flaming yours and have nothing to do with the story. A good compromise would be to allow rating without registering, but require registration for comments.

[Omega22]

A good compromise would be to allow rating without registering, but require registration for comments.

thats not compromise.
you should ask for feature to disable comments for unregistered users, because I other may want otherwise.

[Curtis]

thats not compromise.

A position between two other positions is not a compromise? Perhaps I should've said that I straddled the fence on this issue.