The limit in our forums is 10,000 characters per post. It's an arbitrary limit that I set and it was a lot bigger at one time. There are a couple problems with large posts. The most obvious is that we were getting inundated with trashy cut-and-paste material from people with a political agenda. Nobody read it all and it was taking up valuable space on our server, not to mention the time it takes to back up a huge amount of content. The current limit is probably ten times more than what it should be for this web site. Not even you exceed 1000 characters very often when delighting us with your interesting stories. People lose interest in anything beyond a few hundred words.
Your offer to publish your works here is very generous. It brings up a question I've had on my mind for a long time but have not been able to come up with a good answer, "Where is this web site going?" Looking at our Archive site will make it clear that we are not the same kind of web site that we started out to be. Everything has changed from the structure of the Internet to the way people do computing these days. We have essentially the same site we had ten years ago and that goes a long way to explain why we don't have more traffic. There is no place for a general discussion forum anymore. The likes of Facebook have replaced that concept. Thus the only way to bring in more traffic is to create something that appeals to a special interest group. A site just for computer issues would be a good example as would be a writer's forum. Unless our content is high quality and very specific, I don't see potential for growth. And that brings up yet another issue I've pondered with little enlightenment forthcoming, "How big do I want this site to be?" If we get to be too big we will have to move to a dedicated server and pay a healthy price for that. Advertising would be necessary to maintain such an operation and administration would have to be delegated to several people. It begins to look like work instead of a hobby when a web site becomes too successful. :grin:
I don't think we get enough views to make it financially worth the time and effort you would have to put into promoting your work here. Our best advertising is from people who search Google for specific information. If one of our topics have the right keywords in the title, we end up high in the search results. But that too depends on the content. A good title with only a smiley face in the reply gets ignored by search engines. Thus your book title with 10k words of synopsis would be a good candidate for advertising via SEO. But, as you must know, that kind of success depends on people searching for the exact title of your book. To see what I'm talking about do a Google search for "discussion forums." Then do a similar search for "Brainformation." We dominate the latter search, but who is going to be looking for anything like that unless they misspell Bra Information (which we have covered by the way)?
Last, and certainly not the least of the issues, is the matter of remaining non-profit. We are basically a resource for information with no promotional content. That status allows us to claim "fair use" of copyrighted content. I've never had a problem or a take down order, but I've also been careful not to give anyone the opportunity to come after us.
If you think it would be worth the time and effort, we just happen to have a spare website that is inactive:
http://bfchat.brainformation.com/index.php That site can easily be converted to a special interest magnet given the right graphics, keywords, and content. At the moment I am the only active member there and use it for experimental purposes. I'd be willing to modify the appearance if you think promoting your work there would be of any value.