Ha, that's a shame. If your first story was any indication of your second story it would have been more than worth publishing. I've only read four thus far: Yours, KeithD, Melissa baby, Notalenthack and the stories have great MC development. That about does it for most of us reading, All four stories did that well: easy, EASY 5's. Oh well - Next Year maybe.
Worse, they don't show the category. Wonder how many down votes come because of readers irritated opening a contest story in a category they consider toxic.
It's purely a link page, like a table of contents.
Right, but why was the decision made to have merely a list of links? (Of course, I realize the answer might be "laurel works in mysterious ways".)
Probably too much programming hassle to call up lower hierarchy fields. I suspect the list legacy goes back to the late nineties, when Literotica started up and the first contests took place.
I've done one other event that was put together by Chloe Tzang, 'One night in ____'. She put a lot of effort into organizing the event and if we had a problem, she was first contact. The list of writers, category, title all came out on the day the stories were published. A huge amount of work. I'm guessing the format for this event is the standard default setting for events. And a bit easier to manage i.e., Final submit date to final listing is six, seven days - Makes it easier to round up and categorize etc. but publishing before the event launch is different.
Have you tried sending a PM to Laurel? That's the best way to get publication issues resolved
I've PM'd Laurel, but thanks.
Link fixed, in under 24 hours, and apologetic reply. Excellent service!
Yay! A whole new flood of people telling me I’m a misogynistic psychopath!
25 September, according to the OP.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
