Need some help..

[dragonruler]

I am, as some of you know, in the process of writing a book. My question is...where is a place that i can post my book chapter by chapter if i feel so that people can read it but i am protected?

[Memnir]

Honestly, I'm not sure if anyplace online can be 100% protected. But, you may want to check out deviantART. I believe they have some degree of protection for their submitters - and if nothing else it will give you an ironclad date and time for submission of the work.

Good luck to ya.

[dragonruler]

thx for the help. ill check it out.

[SniptheShadow]

I would think twice and then three or four more times before posting entire chapters on the internet.

Finish your book. When the time comes, write a query letter to a few publishers that catch your eye. You can find a list of all them in the 2009 Writers Market.

If they respond well to your letter and write you back with an interest in what you have, send them the first three chapters to read and go from there.

Memnir said nothing on the internet is probably 100% protected. I couldn't agree more. And people take ideas from others and turn around and claim them as their own. It's a terrible feeling to see your awesome idea in between the pages of another person's book.

Good luck to you.

Snip

[Missing_Minds]

I have to agree with Snip for the most part, and I tend to stay the FRELL away from deviant art and the lot of them. The user agrement normally can screw you out of your own royalties. (and that was how they had their agreement set at one point)

As it is a story, and you are just starting, I doubt you have the money laying around for legal lawyer fees to cover copyrights. However, intellectual property will give you some protection.

Having a hard copy notorized may help. Sending yourself a copy in the mail no longer will protect you in a court of law. But honestly.. your safest best in my opinion is to setup your own site, with your own rules and regulation. Perhaps use deviant for posting a singluar page then a link to the others. That way at least you could date stamp them in that fashion while still holding rights to the stuff yourself as if you make it only "chapter" pages... you could be able to keep all story on your site, not theirs.

The laws have changed sense I last took a course on this stuff in the last... 7 years.