New Story: No. 1 of 52 - Cabinet Pussy-cat

Good morning to anyone mad enough up at this ungodly hour (10:26 a.m. as I write this), this is the first story I'm putting out there for the public to download, read and distribute. I'll admit to cheating slightly, in that the first draft of this story was written two years ago, however it wasn't very good at all in it's original form so I spent last night doing extensive re-writes before making it available.

A little bit of legal stuff now, the story is being made available under a Creative Commons licence, namely this one:-

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

It's about as restrictive as a Creative Commons licence gets, but as I've previously stated I have no problem with the idea of derivative works per se, in fact I would be deeply and sincerely flattered should anyone ever feel the urge to create something new based on anything I've created, I simply want to reserve the rights to the characters in case I ever feel the urge to go back and tell more of a particular story, or expand on the life of a particular character. Besides, does a song, or a poem, or a piece of music inspired by something or a translation to a new language not spoken by the original creator detract from the original work in any way? I've personally never believed that it does. Especially considering the forms mentioned above are for the most part alien to me. Not so much poetry, but my poetry would be alien to anyone who loves the english language.

Oh by the way, I originally stated that I would be publishing under a pseudonym, because I share my birth name with the best selling author of the Da Vinci Code (Is that book any good? I've never read it because having a novel lying around the house with my name on the by line, felt sort of... weird. Like basking in reflected glory, so to speak.), but have since decided that my full name is sufficiently different from his chosen version of our joint moniker. It's not like I'll be in W.H. Smith's anytime soon! Anyway enough with the wittering, here's the sharing URL...
Cabinet Pussy-cat.pdf


I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it! If there are any obvious mistakes or typos in the text then leave a comment and Ill try to fix it in future re-posts.

Complications, Solutions and Ponderations

Oh, my stars! This is going to be a bit more complicated than I thought. It seems that I can't upload PDF files directly to my Blogger page, instead I'm going to have to find a free hosting site and provide links to the documents for people (well persons, there won't be many to begin with) to download from there. Googledocs seems interesting and provides the opportunity to publish a document as a PDF or as a web page, which might come in handy for those who don't want to use up valuable ink on a short story by an author they've never even heard of before and may never want to read again. Before I go live with the whole mad dash for next year, Ill be putting up a short article of some description later today in order to test the functionality of Googledocs and whether or not it'sgoingto work for me.

After some consideration, Ive decided that I'm almost certainly going to be publishing anything I write for this project under a variation of the Creative Commons licence, with the understanding that I have no objection to others translating the work into other languages or creating new versions of the work itself such as editing suggestions or making music, poetry or youtube videos etc. so long as they don't create entirely new works of fiction based on the characters or situations, as I may wish to revisit them at a later date to expand on what has happened, write sequels or follow ups. All of this of course is based on the proviso that this is not done for commercial gain. There, all of the legal bit done for now.