AH Anthology

[moonlight elf]

We've been paid again! $70.20 this quarter. I'll be turning it around as soon as I figure out how much goes to eff.org and how much to Red Cross.

Wohoo!!

Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I found a review of our first volume online.

It's not glowing or anything, but if you're interested:

http://www.mrsgiggles.com/books/anthology_coming.html

In fact, now that i've started reading it, I should warn you that it's a bit harsh. I'm not posting it to be mean, I was just excited that we got noticed. I have to admit though, she liked my story (best it seems) and that makes me a little glowy.

Be warned. This review could hurt your feelings if you're sensative.

 

[sweetnpetite]

she awarded us a 66 on this scale:

Rating Key

90 - 100 Smashing good!
80 - 89 Pretty good.
70 - 79 Flawed but readable
60 - 69 Average
50 - 59 Dry
30 - 49 Very dry
Under 30 Keep the day job. Please.

So I guess she didn't hate it, she just didn't think it was dirty enough.

 

[Boxlicker101]

she awarded us a 66 on this scale:

Rating Key

90 - 100 Smashing good!
80 - 89 Pretty good.
70 - 79 Flawed but readable
60 - 69 Average
50 - 59 Dry
30 - 49 Very dry
Under 30 Keep the day job. Please.

So I guess she didn't hate it, she just didn't think it was dirty enough.

This was included earlier in this thread. It was decided that she wanted outright smut so I have started writing a group sex story featuring Mrs. Giggles and some of the authors on this thread. I posted what I have finished but I haven't added much to it since then because I have been busy with other projects. Once I finish my Winter Holiday Story, I will finish this one.

 

[Guest]

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[Amy Sweet]

After all, it is just part of a draft. I hadn't done any editing yet and there were a few errors.

I super hope that you guys have enough sence not to publish this story in the anthology without her express permission.

personally, I'm dissapointed in the reaction I see here.

 

[Amy Sweet]

shrug.
she had some valid points.
she didn't even notice the illustrations...whaaa!!

Yeah, I thought she had a couple of valid points too

 

[Boxlicker101]

I super hope that you guys have enough sence not to publish this story in the anthology without her express permission.

personally, I'm dissapointed in the reaction I see here.

Of course we wouldn't. Conceivably, I could change the name of the central character to "Mrs. Chuckles" or something like that. Even so, since the story will be total smut, like almost everything else I write, it probably wouldn't make it into one of the volumes.

 

[SlickTony]

According to the article, wasn't that what the reviewer really wanted to read?

 

[Boxlicker101]

According to the article, wasn't that what the reviewer really wanted to read?

That was the impression I got, at least more smut than was included in the volume that was reiewed. However, none of my stories have been included yet, possibly because they are just too dirty.

 

[Guest]

She wanted mindless smut, where the characters are usually engaged by the end of the first sentence.

*sigh*

The first rule in giving anything a review. You must approach the information without personal bias.

At any rate, it's publicity for the anthology.

 

[SlickTony]

She wanted mindless smut, where the characters are usually engaged by the end of the first sentence.

*sigh*

The first rule in giving anything a review. You must approach the information without personal bias.

At any rate, it's publicity for the anthology.

I suppose that means she won't like my stuff when it appears in whatever volume it's going to appear in, and dammit, it had better appear somewhere. I don't think my sex scenes are particularly ethereal, but I do insist on having some story around them.

 

[Black Tulip]

...
personally, I'm dissapointed in the reaction I see here
...

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but this was discussed a couple of pages ago.
Starting with post 2042.
So, a lack of response is understandable. LOL

 

[English Lady]

Yeah, I thought she had a couple of valid points too

Like your's being the best story of the volume


Ahh it's a bit of fun, I've even got her section on my story in my sigline and believe me, reviews rarely are unbiased, I write for two UK review sites, and impartial reviews are hard to come by *L*

 

[Boxlicker101]

She wanted mindless smut, where the characters are usually engaged by the end of the first sentence.

*sigh*

The first rule in giving anything a review. You must approach the information without personal bias.

At any rate, it's publicity for the anthology.

I think you are esaggerating here. My smut is pretty mindless but the characters don't usually get into it until the end of the second paragraph. In my first-person stories, I always give a little description of the woman and tell why we are getting it on together. Then the mindless smut begins, and continues until the end of the story.

 

[Guest]

I think you are esaggerating here. My smut is pretty mindless but the characters don't usually get into it until the end of the second paragraph. In my first-person stories, I always give a little description of the woman and tell why we are getting it on together. Then the mindless smut begins, and continues until the end of the story.

Box, I don't think I'm exaggerating the mindless review.

"Mrs. Giggles" expected to find sex with little or no plot. She got both, but the sex wasn't as nasty as she wished.

And heavens. Poetry? Surely one cannot write sexual poetry!!!

He/she needs to get seriously laid.

But the publicity will be good.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box, I don't think I'm exaggerating the mindless review.

"Mrs. Giggles" expected to find sex with little or no plot. She got both, but the sex wasn't as nasty as she wished.

And heavens. Poetry? Surely one cannot write sexual poetry!!!

He/she needs to get seriously laid.

But the publicity will be good.

The poem I had in the second volume was just a funny limerick but the one scheduled to be in volume 3 is pretty sexual. So is the other one that has been vetted.

 

[fifty5]

Endorsement

Honey123's poems:

Devour Me
Just a Taste
The Taste of You
Take it Into Account

Especially 'The Taste of You', but all 4 should be included, IMO.

 

[yui]

I found a review of our first volume online.

It's not glowing or anything, but if you're interested:

http://www.mrsgiggles.com/books/anthology_coming.html

In fact, now that i've started reading it, I should warn you that it's a bit harsh. I'm not posting it to be mean, I was just excited that we got noticed. I have to admit though, she liked my story (best it seems) and that makes me a little glowy.

Be warned. This review could hurt your feelings if you're sensative.

Ouch! At least she spelled my name wrong.

Actually, if you go to her main site and look at the other books she's reviewed, she rated the anthology higher than many other mainstream titles.

Glad she singled you out for something good, Sweets.

 

[Guest]

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[English Lady]

Hey!
Look!
It's Yucki!...or her brother Yuki...or whatever.
So long as we know she's a twisted deviant!

Funny that Mrs. Giggles took issue with Yui's story as being one of those "...that involve subjects that may give some readers dry heaves, such as incest"

She tempers that with "...such sexual fantasies because they have always been and will always be the staple subjects of written erotica."

and yet later she writes: "... Where are the fun stuff, like BDSM games, taboo sexual relationships, orgies, role-playing, and others? "

hello???

it's right there in that yucky story.

hee hee hee! you're wickedly spot on there, love!

 

[Guest]

hee hee hee! you're wickedly spot on there, love!

that did make me think too.
but hell... negative or positive its still promotion.

 

[sophia jane]

I'm still amazed that so much of her review was devoted to how misplaced my poem was. I have no problem with her saying that at all because it's not really an erotic poem. I'm just shocked that I was given so much attention!

 

[Guest]

I'm still amazed that so much of her review was devoted to how misplaced my poem was. I have no problem with her saying that at all because it's not really an erotic poem. I'm just shocked that I was given so much attention!

She wants you.

 

[impressive]

She wants you.

So do I ... but I don't think trashing her poem is the way to get in her pants.