A question for all you writers with blogs: is it worth the effort to post a story to your personal blog?  Not a story you plan to sell, obviously, but one you already sold or one you can’t quite find the market for.

I can see the both sides of things.  On the pro side, it gives your blog reade a taste of your writing, turns lurkers into potential fans.  You have control of how long it’s available and can track how many people read it.  As for cons, who really goes to blogs looking for fiction?  It says something about a story’s quality to have the author pimping it him/herself for free.  And of coure, it uses up some rights for the story (even second electronic rights could be worth something).

As I mentioned in my last post, I have a few stories that have vanished from the net that I’d like to get back out there, notably my first sale.  Not to mention my military vampire story, my story for young readers.  I even have a short comedy that can’t quite find a market.  I’m thinking about putting one up here,adding more if it goes over well.

I haven’t decided yet. We’ll see.

-Oso