Adding premium content

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How do we mark stories as premium content? And can we unmark them?

I was wondering whether I could publish my stuff first as premium, and then a week or more later make it free to all. Can I do that? Are there parameters for this?

- Io

Let me work this out

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Piper and I need to work on a way to do this and how to describe it. Might take a day or so.

Hugs,
Erin

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This is actually interesting.

I was led to believe having one's stuff be posted as a "premium" story, was a by-invitation-only. I wouldn't really know, actually - after being told that by that person (that it was something that was only for those expressly invited), I never bothered to find out anything about it anymore, or even ask the admin folks. I was thinking that could be my way of helping - since I wasn't providing help financially (and wasn't intending to for many complex reasons), I thought this could be my way to help.

Hopefully, there'll be more info about this, so I'll be checking the comment trail here regularly.

Thank you for asking the question, Ms Portmanteaux. Haven't thought of this for a while. Glad you brought it up. (Love the profile name, btw - I'm not a Gilbert and Sullivan fan, but I've always liked the way the name sounded, and being married to someone from Japan, where they love mixing up words - anime, manga, pokemon, charaben, karate, karaoke and so forth - your profile name's very distinctive to me).

 

Hatbox Submissions vs Invitiations

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Hatbox was never intended to be invite only, but we do reach out to authors from time to time and invite them, because we need to add content. Most frequently we have had authors donating stories to Doppler to be published on Amazon to support BigCloset that way, and so not a lot of content has been added to Hatbox in recent times. We actually do have a few things to go up shortly however.

We have been working on a way for an author to choose to publish something to hatbox via the site. IT won't go live right away, but basically go into a submission queue where an editor can read it, choose if it's right for publication, and if the author agrees and it's needed, we might do some copy editing. Our goal is to treat Hatbox stories very much the same as we do Doppler stories, including editing, and artwork.

With the renewed interest in Hatbox submissions we will be working on a set of guidelines very shortly, including what we expect of a work, and what an author can expect of us, once it's submitted.

-Piper

"She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them."
— Geraldine Brooks

Cool! Thanks for the answer

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Thanks, Piper! I'll watch for more info.

And hi, Bobbie! Glad you're interested, too. Yes, I kind of grew up hearing Gilbert & Sullivan. Just lately I had occasion to read W.S. Gilbert's Engaged, which can be seen as an early version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. It's pretty funny and pretty short, and just lying out there on the internet waiting to be read.

Anyway... thanks, Piper and Erin. I'm sure you're both busy as can be, with the thousand things that keep a site like this going. I appreciate all you do.

- Io

sorry for the late reply

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Hello, Io. Sorry for the late reply.

Guess I'm not that big a fan of musicals, at least in the way "real fans" are, and I have not seen too many, whether in Broadway, much less travel to England and watch Gilbert and Sullivan musicals at the West End, like Pirates of Penzance or HMS Pinafore, or even Iolanthe, but I do know some of the songs (what comes to mind is "He Is An Englishman" from Pinafore and "I Am A Pirate King" from Penzance). The last musicals I saw was quite a while back - an off-Broadway DC production of Sweeney Todd and a production of Wicked here in Manila, done by a touring Australian company a few years ago.

I do have a copy of the original Sweeney Todd Broadway version on VHS (can you believe it? lol) with Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury and Victor Garber, and, of course, a copy of the movie with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman. Both were good, but I like the Broadway one. (Did you know, Sweeney Todd was reclassified as an opera early on because there were too few speaking lines?)

I also have a CD of the original recording of Wicked, with Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Idina Menzel as Elphaba (don't you just love "Defying Gravity?").

You read Gilbert and Sullivan? Wow. That's unusual. But I guess to each her own.

And I do love your profile name - Iolanthe. Besides the connections to Gilbert and Sullivan, it sounds very pretty. And the portmanteau thing - my spouse is Japanese, and their language is just full of portmanteau words, like pokemon, charaben, karaoke, karate, and waporu and pasacon (very eighties, huh? lol) - so I like it. The addition of the "x" at the end gives it a very funky, scifi-ish touch.

If you get word of the process/policies for making one of our titles "premium" titles, please do let me know?

Thanks, and seeya!

 

Thanks for the clarification

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I have in mind a short Anmar-related story that I would like to submit to the Hatbox when it is complete.

I look forward to discovering submission details with interest.

Penny

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