Can parts of a series be submitted to different categories?

[ThePracticeShortStories]

Is it acceptable to submit parts of a series to different categories? Or is that disallowed/frowned upon?

 

[DrDelirium]

Is it acceptable to submit parts of a series to different categories? Or is that disallowed/frowned upon?

I'm new here, but from what I've seen, the different chapters of series are often all over the category map, and I've seen some discussion that suggests that the site managers move things to categories that fit the episode, whatever the overall theme of the series might be.

Unless you're asking about submitting the same chapter to several categories at once- I have no idea about that.

 

[sr71plt]

Yes you can do that, and some do.

 

[SimonDoom]

Yes, it's allowed, and no, it's not frowned upon. But as an author you should be aware that you may lose readers doing this. Some readers may enjoy the kink/fetish angle/category of one story, but not enjoy the kink/fetish of its successor. There's a very good chance that your readership will decline a lot from one chapter to the next if the categories change. A lot of Literotica readers are very clear about what they want to read, and they may not follow your story if it switches direction and heads into a category they are not interested in. But there are many authors who do this. My preference is to keep all chapters in a series in the same category.

 

[rutger5]

As others have said - yes.

I don't think it should be a major issue unless the different categories are all over the map. Part 1 in Erotic Couplings, part 2 in Gay Male, part 3 in Erotic Horror and part 4 in Loving Wives.

Only series I have here has first three parts in EC and the fourth in Group Sex due to there being a threesome in that part. Ratings are pretty similar so no problem in this case.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Many readers only follow one or two categories, so there's a good chance that the people who enjoyed Chapter 1 won't see Chapter 2 and the ones who see Chapter 2 will skip it because they didn't read Chapter 1.

If you do go this route, I'd recommend having all the chapters ready to go, submitting them all at once, and including a note on Chapter 1 telling people where they can find the others.

Alternately, you can categorise the whole series according to the dominant theme. In that case probably best to include a note on the submission so Laurel and readers know the score, especially if this leads to posting squick content out of its normal home.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[rutger5]

I'm also curious about this strategy. I'm working on a sci-fi series I was planning on putting in, well, the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Category, and I'm afraid I'll miss out on readers who don't frequent that category, but who would enjoy the content if they did stumble across it. I know that's always a risk, but could posting it across multiple categories mitigate some of that risk, so long as you warn readers in advance? My series is predominantly sci-fi, but one of three main characters is gay and there are strong elements of nonhuman, mind control, and nonconsent. The fuck is a girl to do?

If I was in your shoes I'd post in Sci-Fi/Fantasy with 'warning' simply because as long as story features a strong sci-fi component those readers will be more open to those other aspects. I'm guessing if one part is in mind control, another part is in GM, another in nonhuman then there would be a greater chance of readers who don't follow you to not find your story as it is scattered about categories. If I looked for stories in mind control primarily and part 4 of LeandraNyx's Epic Awesome Story was posted there but the first three parts were already posted in different categories I'm not sure if I'd go bouncing from genre to genre searching. Its not like any of the categories you mentioned have a huge number of readers like incest or LW have.

Obviously as some have commented the way categories/tags work here isn't optimal but that's not likely to change if they have been doing it like that for all these years Lit has been around.

 

[sr71plt]

As others have said - yes.

I don't think it should be a major issue unless the different categories are all over the map. Part 1 in Erotic Couplings, part 2 in Gay Male, part 3 in Erotic Horror and part 4 in Loving Wives.

Only series I have here has first three parts in EC and the fourth in Group Sex due to there being a threesome in that part. Ratings are pretty similar so no problem in this case.

In the "never say never" category, I have a five-part series here ("Tuscan Twilight") that was split between more varied categories than you give--Gay Male, Lesbian, Erotic Couplings, and Group) It has done just fine and four of the five parts also received Green Es.

I didn't put any defensive explanatory slugs on any of the parts either.

 

[LeandraNyx]

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[sr71plt]

Yo, Pilot, any chance I could get your input on this? If I submitted certain sections of a sci-fi story to Gay Male, do you think it might help me pick up some readers? Or is it a dumb idea?

I suppose it could. There might be readers in GM who also have an interest in sci-fi and will add reading an author mainly in writing sci-fi on the basis of having read him/her in the GM category. There's an endless number of separate readers motivated by an endless number of random choices.

 

[IslandCove]

I started submitting stories in a series to separate categories. It seemed to confuse the readers. Also, I found, eventually I couldn't find a category that suited the story. Resubmitted the lot to novels and novellas.
I have no idea how this will affect the type of person who ends up reading them though.

Dave

 

[Handley_Page]

Is it acceptable to submit parts of a series to different categories? Or is that disallowed/frowned upon?

It's permitted, but it may not be too valuable in terms of lost readership.
Not all readers read all categories.

 

[Ldy_Sea]

Here's what I do. I pick the category each story fits in. If the reader enjoyed the loving wives chapter, I hope they will click on the Chapter 2 link at the end of the story even though that chapter is in Incest. I write what I want, how I want.

 

[BuckyDuckman]

Is it acceptable to submit parts of a series to different categories? Or is that disallowed/frowned upon?

I've done it and I thought it was warranted based on the subject matter of each chapter.