Novels & Novellas Category

[Laurel]

As many of you know, we have a separate category for longer length and/or broader scope erotic fiction - the Novels & Novellas Category. It's a very special category made to appeal to readers who enjoy this type of fiction.

My nightmare is that it will fill up with incomplete novels and such. Therefore, if you submit to me one chapter by itself and mark it as going to Novels/Novellas, you will find that I will move it to another category. If you have a full novel that you want to submit broken into chapters, please submit all chapters at once. This way, I can be sure that you won't submit 2 or 3 chapters then stop. Capiche? Any questions, let 'em loose here or in email.

 

[circe!]

Hi Laurel...

...so when I am finished with my Hurrying Down the Dark Road story (12 chapters down, 1 left to submit), it can be transfered to Novels and Novellas? Will it still be in seperate chapters, or as one giant submission?

circe!

 

[circe!]

I'm back.

I just checked the N & N Catagory and I see that it would still be in seperate chapters.

 

[Bob Peale]

Re: Hi Laurel...

...so when I am finished with my Hurrying Down the Dark Road story (12 chapters down, 1 left to submit), it can be transfered to Novels and Novellas? Will it still be in seperate chapters, or as one giant submission?

circe!

Actually, I had the same question...are stories eligible to be promoted? I'm not speaking about anything I've written, but I'm toying with a set of stories with a unifying theme.

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

I have three "Chapter stories" (The Academy series) which I have submitted. The stories can stand on their own and were meant to be that way. I might go on with the series but if I do, it will be sporadic because I am working on another project. The stories are all on one theme. Will they stay in separate chapters as "regular" stories?

Hi Laurel.

Luv,
S

 

[Laurel]

I have three "Chapter stories" (The Academy series) which I have submitted. The stories can stand on their own and were meant to be that way. I might go on with the series but if I do, it will be sporadic because I am working on another project. The stories are all on one theme. Will they stay in separate chapters as "regular" stories?

Hi Laurel.

Hi Sateema.

If a story is submitted in something other than Novels & Novellas, I usually do not move it elsewhere. There are many multiple part stories that are not IMHO Novels.

For those who wonder: to me, there's a difference between a series and a novel. A series is a group of chapters drawn together by common characters or setting or theme, each telling its own story. Chapters in a series can often be read out of turn and still make sense. Novels, IMHO, are stories that are told over many chapters. One must read the novel in its entirety to fully appreciate them. In a novel, the first chapter is the beginning, the intermediate chapters are the middle, and the final chapter finishes the tale. In a series, each individual chapter has its own beginning, middle, & end - its own conflict and resolution.

Generally, I try to avoid adding series to the N&N category. The purpose of the N&N category is to satisfy readers who enjoy longer-length fiction. A chapter in a series is a story in its own right, and thus can be enjoyed as a short story or a part of a whole. Therefore, I feel series fit better in categories than in the N&N area.

To be clear, there are stories in the N&N category that are unfinished (the last chapter hasn't yet been posted) but the author has usually submitted enough of the story that I'm confident it will continue to its conclusion. If it doesn't within a reasonable time frame, all chapters will go into a category. If the author comes back two years later and completes it, it will be moved into N&N once again.

Hope this makes some sort of sense.

Actually, I had the same question...are stories eligible to be promoted? I'm not speaking about anything I've written, but I'm toying with a set of stories with a unifying theme.

Sure. If you ever think your story would be a better fit in any other category, I'm more than open to suggestions. We have a few stories - Suzie Samuel's "Vanished", off the top of my head - that started out life as a series in the BDSM category and were later moved by myself into the N&N cat because after watching the development of the story, I decided that N&N was a good fit. Nothing's set in stone. And on that note, if you ever feel I've botched your description and want it replaced, drop me an email with a replacement description (one sentence only, and as brief as possible) and I'll be more than happy to slip it in.

 

[Bob Peale]

And on that note, if you ever feel I've botched your description and want it replaced, drop me an email with a replacement description (one sentence only, and as brief as possible) and I'll be more than happy to slip it in.

That is so never going to happen! Hell, half of the time I write stories just to see how you're going to describe the bloody things! Why mess with a good thing?