Questions About A Potential Submission & Feedback

[sr71plt]

You don't get up in a man's lap in a "nonsexual" manner in erotica--or on Literotica. This goes back to where I noted that the bot isn't going to accept your interpretations of actions. Here I'll doubt the human editor would, either.

I've successfully had minors have the in-the-shower "look" thing and very limited arousal thoughts of that. But there was absolutely no touching of any sort before 18--or allusions to it.

(We did, for a while have a poster with a photograph of his granddaughter siitting in his lap as a sometimes forum avatar, but he heard how appropriate that was for this website a few times)

 

[NikkiBastion]

Exactly, which is why it was innuendo and allusion but the scene itself was not.


But, again, if they don't they don't and if they provide a rationale, I'll tweak it some more and try again. If not, it's not a tremendous ordeal. This one's experimental and a learning experience and I'm still interested in the self pub angle and using it there, as well. I don't by any means think this is at all some breakout awesome work that'll land me on a best seller list. It's just the first thing I finished

I have a ton of other stuff, but it's not Lit material.

None of the critiques or all that are going to bother me, and while it may not be the best written work on the planet, I know I write well enough regardless to judge that it's a pretty good read in and of itself. I get it the theme/content makes people squirmy, makes me squirmy and that's exactly why I chose it.

That's a hell of a writer challenge though and wouldn't hurt those people who write and find XYZ material "offensive" or gross - pick a theme that is not something that appeals to you and make it sexy.

The way I had to work around myself on it though was to replace old fatass guy with hot sexy guy, write it and then go back through and change all the hot adjectives to gross ones

 

[sr71plt]

I have works published that go beyond Lit. criteria--and that I don't want to change to meet Lit. criteria. So putting it directly in the marketplace is certainly doable.

 

[lovecraft68]

The "Report This Story" button seems to be malfunctioning.

Try reporting the story directly to Laurel via PM. It will come down as soon as she sees it.

Bug report sent to Manu to try to get this corrected.

That is what I did, I pm'ed her the link and stated that it seemed like blatant underage sex.

I never use the report a story button just because I am never sure it works.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have works published that go beyond Lit. criteria--and that I don't want to change to meet Lit. criteria. So putting it directly in the marketplace is certainly doable.

I'm sure it is, but in Amazons case they cannot review every book that gets submitted, they can only "spot check". When they do review one and it has graphic sex they e-mail you, and say that it violates their policies.

They provide the link to said policies where the first is no graphic depictions of sex. I mean really? They have erotic chat rooms in their forum's for Christ's sake.

and as for the line between Porn/Erotica no matter how much "feeling" and emotion an d build up you can place in your erotica at some point you get down to writing about the nasty in vivid detail. If you did not then you would be writing Nora Roberts romances.

Amazon has the policy for CYA for when some over zealous puritan who needs a stiff one decides to report "offensive" porn to them. It's the same here. They have an age rule a bestiality rule and some form of rape rule that no one can actually explain, but don't work overly hard to enforce them.

 

[NikkiBastion]

Just a quick update...

Somebody definitely indulged me and for that, I definitely appreciate it.

So from the last post here, I decided to tinker around with the Amazon option, meanwhile had the pdf available on the site free. I actually had 6 people show up (from here, actually, so hey thanks!) and download it. I was surprised.

Then I cringed because I was in tinkering phase, didn't have any damn traffic except the occasional bot spider, so technically it wasn't fully ready for anyone else to read yet. I went through again and proofed, edited, etc. and figured out Amazon. Originally set it at 2.99 on the 70% royalty just to see how it all played out, but it locked me out of making changes and went into pending mode. The next day, I got notice it was live. I changed it to 99c with the 35% royalty rate. I didn't promote it, just made a post page for it and was messing around.

Today, it occurred to me I didn't delve that deeply into the whole ebook on Amazon thing, didn't read through it all and had no idea about how to track sales or royalties or any of it. I logged in and figured out where to find that stuff and would you believe, actually had a sale? I was floored.

I guess I answered my other question about does it count. Since I managed to "successfully publish" the thing up there as a friggin test piece and made my first (and probably only) sale, fluke of nature as it may be, I qualify as a "successfully published author"...and if I just don't provide details nobody's the wiser and I can get away with sounding really awesome and cool.

My original agenda was to test with it, figuring it either wouldn't see the light of day or it'd get rejected or pulled, whatever. I never once actually thought anyone would buy it - even given my chosen cover for god sakes. Now, I'm not sure whether to just leave it up as a fluke or pull it and focus on more serious legit work.

Haha. I can't believe it sold a copy in less than 24 hrs of going live...on zero promotion. I'm still in a relative WTF? mode figuring it's a fluke of nature but my curiosity's definitely been piqued...what if I left it up indefinitely awhile longer, just to see if it actually does do anything?

So, half a dozen grabbed the pitifully unedited freebie version and someone out there bought it (still not sure whether it was the 2.99 or the 99c plan, since I changed it)...and I appreciate their curiosity and indulgence. Nobody's offered any feedback though (and if they do on the typos or formatting, so be it - formatting was a conversion issue and a couple words got smashed together), but it's been an interesting experiment.

That's a trip.

 

[natsuto]

Stories posted to Literotica sex scenes with minors. This story crept cracks. I do not have a vague concept, why do you think your last post is his observation is clearly correct answer.

 

[NikkiBastion]

Not sure what your point is, sorry.

Just saw it was approved, so that's nice to see. It's had a lot of views but no comments so far, unless I missed something.

Been working on another project so haven't been back to LE to even check on this lately. Thanks for the approval ;-)

Aside from the subject or theme, I'd still appreciate constructive feedback on style, structure, all that stuff.