jesse_the_k | Fanfic Hosting: Good & Bad News (Reply)

I've adored the writing of wordstrings in BBC Sherlock. I was delighted to learn a decade ago that the same person, writing as Katie Forsythe, created many excellent fanfics in the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. Those used to be hosted at liquidfic.org, but that domain parted ways with the author.

Today I got a AO3 notification that wordstrings didn't have backups of the Katie Forsythe work, so asked if someone had saved the stories locally, and if they'd be willing to share them with other interested parties.

Of course scores of fans stepped up, and it's clear those works will be back on the internet soon.

I did some random searching, and was very surprised to learn another of wordstring's works, the Paradox Series, still at the AO3, is also available for free via the no-DRM-ebook-only publisher Smashwords, which offers pdb and lrf formats, in addition to the pdf, mobi, and epub formats hosted here.

So I guess some folks use Smashwords to host fanfic?

(And there's one further complication: the liquidfic.org stories are on the Wayback Machine, BUT the Internet Archive is offline because they're dealing with a DDoS attack. According to the Archive's founder, it will be "days not weeks" before they'll be back up.)