Has Asa STrong ever posted any stories her on SOl. SciFi or Fine stories?
They did, back in 2006. Not sure how many or for how long, or when they were removed. The stories still exist on Gina Marie Wylie's site, or at least 14 of them.
He posted to SoL, BtFH. He also created a short lived alternative authors website hosted at his home business qualitystoriesonline.com (QSO) using a Visual Basic 6 http server and Microsoft SQL 2005.
13 stories remains at BtFH (BtFH stories counts are not correct)
Here is the complete list as far as I know:
"A Change in Plans" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"A Christams Remebered" : SoL, BtFH
"A Cold Winter in Middle Park" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"A Long Way Home" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"An Ancient Truth" : BtFH, QSO
"Beyond the Dragon's Teeth" : BtFH, QSO
"Bits Byte and Life" : SoL, BtFH
"Circus Time" : BtFH, QSO
"I Know an Immigrant": SoL
"Just Another Fairy Tale": SoL
"One Last Roundup" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"Poverty Hill" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"Poverty Hill - Indoctrination" : SoL, BtFH, QSO
"Poverty Hill - Harbinger" : BtFH, QSO
"The Hydrogen Affair" : QSO
"The Tale of Terry and the Green Shamrock Inn" : BtFh
So it looks like "I Know an Immigrant", "Just Another Fairy Tale", "The Hydrogen Affair" are not available anymore.
Even the Wayback Machine knows virtually nothing about QSO, it looked at robots.txt there in late March 2007 but does not appear to have archived it.
Asa Strong was still active on BtFH in 2008. I wonder when (and why) he deleted his stuff here, https://readerinfo.net/ does not list him.
From what I remember he was supposed to be suffering from depression at one point.
I wonder when (and why) he deleted his stuff here
I don't really remember, but a lot of authors didn't like to be associated with some of the content available here. finestories.com solved that problem.
I think in his case the main reason was that he wanted to be published and finally decided to do it himself.
SoL at that time was not very supportive of these ambition and the perception at the time was still that being available for free was detrimental to landing a publishing contract.
SoL at that time was not very supportive of these ambition and the perception at the time was still that being available for free was detrimental to landing a publishing contract.
It probably still is.
It may also be detrimental to self publishing.
My understanding is that if you self publish through Amazon and have the same story available elsewhere, they reserve the right to lower the Amazon price to match the lowest it is elsewhere available at. You aren't going to earn much in royalties if Amazon reduces the price of your book to $0.00
I wonder when (and why) he deleted his stuff here
When? early 2007.
When I implemented the current voting system in 2006, Asa Strong was one of those upset about it. He was particularly upset when I tied the author reward system to the votes and when an author turned off voting, their stories counted as tho they had a score of 1.
He asked for the removal of his stories in protest and moved to BTFH and then built his own site using the domain name qualitystories.com
For whatever reason he lost interest in running his own site and let the domain registration lapse. I registered the domain when it lapsed and pointed it at finestories.com