An announcement about my future publishing on Literotica

[MillieDynamite]

Everything is never, every fine.

I posted a story (a sequel to a story of mine from a year or so ago), it went through in a couple of days. Then I immediately noticed that I should have had a link to Part 1 of my story. I know, a stupid oversight by me, but after I publish something, I pretty much forget all about it. So, I did an edit, with the link and all of the copy and pasting and filling out the forms and checking to see what tags I had used... And it sat there for about a week (expected). Today, it's gone. Not pending. My story not updated with the link to Part 1.

EDIT: I was unaware that there is a slight lag between the edit being accepted and the edit showing up in my story. Apparently, everything is fine!!

 

[SmilingLez]

Sshhh...they are the Illiterati, a secret cabal with great powers and they shouldn't be disturbed.

I remember in college reading a three-book series by Robert Anton Williams about that secret society. I was into conspiracy theories at that time and his books did not disappoint

 

[TheWritingGroup]

So, did the edit actually go through?

 

[FreyaGersemi]

So, did the edit actually go through?

Ha ha!! I've been checking and it has not gone through... and then I checked one more time before replying to your inquiry and... the edit went through! You must be good luck!!!

 

[bulldoginmelb]

Hi all,

I’ve had a great time growing as a writer on Literotica. I started out writing quasi-biographical stories that relied more on memory than invention. I graduated to more creative works, I began to focus more on plot, and characters, and on dealing with broader themes than just people fucking. I’ve come a long way and my characters have cum an awful lot.

The culmination of this literary journey is my first novel, The Story of Nix. This is something into which I poured every single thing I have learned about writing, along with many of my feelings about the world in 2025.

I’m super proud of the result and even more so of the deluge of positive comments and messages from a wide range of people. I never had any idea that this essentially personal project would resonate with so many, including excellent authors for whom Nix was their first experience of my work. It’s one thing having fans, quite another to reach a wider audience of fellow writers. The response has been truly amazing and humbling.

But, sadly, this writing career peak has coincided with changes at Literotica. The site has never been very writer-friendly. It’s focused on readers and us authors are seen as fungible commodities, and not valued content partners. We provide the product that Literotica sells, and the only recompense is seeing our work appreciated by others.

For years this has been enough. It wasn’t maybe a great deal for good authors, but the views you got allowed writers to ignore how little our basic needs were catered for. But, sad to say, things have gotten worse.

The views have fallen off a cliff edge in many categories. The few pro-author aspects (comp-related sweeps, or the site looking into malicious voting when asked to) have atrophied, and are becoming close to non-existent. The Halloween Competition sweep was something of a joke in its ineffective shallowness. And the site no longer responds to requests to fix clearly malicious votes. The trolls have totally free rein. Literotica is becoming an unregulated, dystopian hellscape for authors. And I know it’s not just me who thinks so.

Add to this the current submission crisis, and Literotica has become much less author-friendly; and that decline is from a starting position that was already very low. For me at least, things have reached a tipping point where the benefits of publishing here have dropped below the hassle factor.

For that reason, the story I have already written for the Winter Holidays Competition will be the last new one I publish. I’m not doing anything as dramatic as deleting my back catalog - to do so would be punishing my loyal readers, rather than the site - but part of me feels that I should, to be entirely consistent.

I’m not so stupid to think that a lack of new Emily Miller stories will bring Literotica to its knees, but I’m no longer comfortable contributing even 0.00001% to the site’s revenue, when the most basic of courtesies and protections are no longer extended to authors.

Maybe there is a crisis of some sort at Literotica Towers. Illness, disability, old age catching up with the principals, a decision to sell the site, the technical infrastructure crumbling… who knows? Absent any communication about this, I see no need to extend the benefit of the doubt to the site.

What is indisputable is that the basic hygiene factors no longer exist, and it feels as if the level of respect towards the other half of what ought to be a symbiotic relationship has evaporated. Authors never mattered much, now they don’t matter at all.

While I won’t post any new stories here (unless things change radically - and I’m not holding my breath), I might consider completing some series in deference to my readers. But any new stories will be published in different ways.

I’m not quitting the forums, I’ll still be here to annoy a range of people as much as always. So if the aim of attacking my work was to make me leave, then fuck you! I’ll also continue to promote my back catalog here from time to time, and to comment on the work of other writers.

I apologize to my regular readers. This isn’t about you, it’s about the environment for authors here becoming intolerable. I’m fine, I don’t need messages of support. If you want to do something positive, consider messaging @Laurel and @Manu asking them to treat authors with greater respect. Not that I anticipate this leading to any change either. The site doesn’t listen to its users and the death spiral - whatever caused it in the first place - already seems well-established.

Thank you to those who have enjoyed my work and said so. You’re the best. I’m not going to stop writing, but I’m no longer going to provide Literotica with a revenue stream when I get little in return.

Love

Emily

PS I’m not going to argue with anyone on this thread. Feel free to call me a spoiled princess, or a drama queen, if you feel like it, I really don’t care.

Missing youuuu…..