Author: Donald O'Donovan
Date:   11-06-09 13:29

I’m concerned to preserve my body of work before I die so that it will exist somewhere other than on my hard drive or in a desk drawer. It strikes me that the Internet is the place. My question is, if you were in my shoes (and if you’re reading this you probably are) what Internet site or sites would you pick to “park” your work? Smashwords? Createspace? Or would your answer be, possibly, as many free sites as you can find? I say free, because remember, I won’t be around to pay the rent.

My literary cryogenic fantasy goes like this: the technicians freeze dry my work, it sits in a locker for two, maybe three centuries, and then they thaw me out and it’s 1900 once again—no TV, no radio, James Joyce is coming up on the horizon, and Thomas Wolfe, and Celine—and publishing is just wide open and anything goes. What a beautiful world!

So where would you park yours? Remember, we’re not concerned with sales. I’m not going to be doing any promoting or marketing. I’m a writer, not a salesman. Besides, you don’t need no money where I’m going.

Thanks for your suggestions!

PS: I recently read, on the Internet, a transcription of a 13th Dynasty Egyptian grain supervisor’s report written in Akkadian cuneiform on a clay tablet in 1773 BC. To me this means that one’s work can survive and come to light after a very long period of—br-r-r-r-r—hibernation.