The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

If you look in the list of your pending stories, does it say PUBLISHED or PENDING?

If it says PUBLISHED, it should also show NEW in an orange rectangle and a publication date.

If not, it's still awaiting approval.
It does indeed say PUBLISHED with an orange NEW rectangle. It does not have a "PUBLISHED" date, rather it says "status: scheduled"
 
Ok, I finally got a message through to the powers that be through Multiple routes

Let's see what happens...
 
It does indeed say PUBLISHED with an orange NEW rectangle. It does not have a "PUBLISHED" date, rather it says "status: scheduled"
Put in a big report and/or send a message to Manu with a screen shot of it looking like that. It sounds like it only went half way through being approved.
 
And the bombings begin!

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Curiously, although my story posted on time and made the list, it's not included in my catalog...
 
No, this is unheard of - and unconscionable. Stories with a go-live date of today should have gone up 14 hours ago.
The 11th is almost over here in England, but there's still some 11th left in the world. Hopefully it's up by the time I wake up 🤞
 
@Duleigh and I are following up with Manu and Laurel on the missing stories that should have been published. Sorry I wasn't on it sooner - been heads down at work most of the day - but Duleigh stepped right in :)

Can you all do me a favor and drop the name of your story here and the status it shows in your submissions page - I want to give Laurel and Manu a list of the ones we know should be up and aren't. Apologies everyone. Let's hope it gets fixed fast.
 
@Duleigh and I are following up with Manu and Laurel on the missing stories that should have been published. Sorry I wasn't on it sooner - been heads down at work most of the day - but Duleigh stepped right in :)

Can you all do me a favor and drop the name of your story here and the status it shows in your submissions page - I want to give Laurel and Manu a list of the ones we know should be up and aren't. Apologies everyone. Let's hope it gets fixed fast.
My story is called Santa's Littlest Helper and it's claiming to be posted 'today' in the romance category. It also has little boxes saying published and new in them

Thank you both for putting in all this effort <3
 
My story just published, and it looks like a bunch of others did as well. Sucks that the first day of the new tag was mostly wasted but I guess it's nice that it's been fixed.

Hope everybody likes it!
 
My story just published, and it looks like a bunch of others did as well. Sucks that the first day of the new tag was mostly wasted but I guess it's nice that it's been fixed.

Hope everybody likes it!
Has it gone live, or does it show published with tonites date? It's not on the Winter Holidays page as yet
 
Has it gone live, or does it show published with tonites date? It's not on the Winter Holidays page as yet
It's there for me, but weirdly the page loads with the original 9, and then when I refresh it the new ones show up.

It always showed published with today's date but now it's on the new page, my works page, and it showed as published in my activity on the control panel.
 
Mine says it has been published but it doesn't yet appear on the new stories part of the romance category. It does appear on the new erotic stories page though
 
It's there for me, but weirdly the page loads with the original 9, and then when I refresh it the new ones show up.

It always showed published with today's date but now it's on the new page, my works page, and it showed as published in my activity on the control panel.
I see it now. Cool.
 
Well, this is interesting. My story posted just a while ago with the correct title, subtitle and tags,but the wrong story text. If you submitted a story that begins like this:

Snow fell heavily as Grant stepped out of his downtown office building onto the sidewalk. It was already almost eight in the evening; he'd gotten stuck working on a last-minute web design project for a client that 'couldn't wait until after Christmas,' according to his insufferable boss. Given that it was Wednesday, December 20th, it meant long hours to accomplish the design overhaul, which definitely wouldn't be deployed until January at the earliest.

Please reach out to Laurel and let her know she's giving me credit for your work. You've got 5 stars so far. Good job. :)
 
Well, this is interesting. My story posted just a while ago with the correct title, subtitle and tags,but the wrong story text. If you submitted a story that begins like this:

Snow fell heavily as Grant stepped out of his downtown office building onto the sidewalk. It was already almost eight in the evening; he'd gotten stuck working on a last-minute web design project for a client that 'couldn't wait until after Christmas,' according to his insufferable boss. Given that it was Wednesday, December 20th, it meant long hours to accomplish the design overhaul, which definitely wouldn't be deployed until January at the earliest.

Please reach out to Laurel and let her know she's giving me credit for your work. You've got 5 stars so far. Good job. :)
And after I left you that nice comment too...
 
Well, this is interesting. My story posted just a while ago with the correct title, subtitle and tags,but the wrong story text. If you submitted a story that begins like this:

Snow fell heavily as Grant stepped out of his downtown office building onto the sidewalk. It was already almost eight in the evening; he'd gotten stuck working on a last-minute web design project for a client that 'couldn't wait until after Christmas,' according to his insufferable boss. Given that it was Wednesday, December 20th, it meant long hours to accomplish the design overhaul, which definitely wouldn't be deployed until January at the earliest.

Please reach out to Laurel and let her know she's giving me credit for your work. You've got 5 stars so far. Good job. :)
This would be such an iconic way to win

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