Hi ThisGirl,

Your concern is very valid.

Protecting your works with a copyright statement does not keep others from copying it and claiming it as their own.

It does help you win your case if you go to court.

Think twice and then again before submitting your work to any website.

What is the purpose of submitting work that you eventually want people to pay for? If it's to get them excited about your writing, then have a plan and determine how much of any story you want to submit. Many publishers don't like to see more than one chapter available online for free.

If you want to share your stories and don't plan to sell them, then that's a different story. Though I'd be pretty ticked to find out someone had copied my work and sold it as their own, you would have a fair amount of legal protection by posting the copyright notice with the story.

The same goes for stories that you just want to share and plan on making other stories available for sale. Look at the success of Powerone.

He has posted over 30 stories on this website in the library and is a top selling author on adult e-book sites.

The policies on this website are different from others. This sites can be found here: http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/story_submit.php

If you want reviewers to read your work, and have more control over it, you might try a site like www.writing.com, where you can password protect your writing, or decide how much of any story is posted at a given time.

To your success,

Ruby