The Literotica podcast

[PennameWombat]

Just saw a tweet from the official Literotica account that the site has kicked off an ‘official’ podcast, although the posting was a few days old. Krystine Kellog is an audio narrator specialising in erotica. Lunar Hiccups (Ella) is, well, not sure. At the moment, much of the site is down for maintenance so I can’t look anything up. Just the Forums seem to be up.

So… which of our illustrious authors (of which I’m not) will they invite?

 

[NotWise]

Laurel posted a link here so we could hear the first release free.

I listened and thought that both of the opening narrations sounded like people reading scripts. Ella was giggly, which is fine. I don't know what they had to work with, but I thought the interview would have sounded better if it had been a conversation between Ella and Krystine.

Am I missing something inherently interesting about Lit contributors? It doesn't seem like a great premise for a podcast.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm sure if any are invited it, will be site favs. I also imagine, and I wouldn't blame them in the least, it will be mostly women, because let's face it, more people would listen.

I've done local radio interviews and been on panels at horror and writing events and....I'm going to agree with Notwise, I'm not sure what the interest level would be.

 

[Phantom300]

Laurel posted a link here so we could hear the first release free.

I listened and thought that both of the opening narrations sounded like people reading scripts. Ella was giggly, which is fine. I don't know what they had to work with, but I thought the interview would have sounded better if it had been a conversation between Ella and Krystine.

This. 110% this.

I had never been exposed to Lunar Hiccups prior to listening. Her content seems to be right up my alley and I will be following her and checking out her website. But to just listen to her talk for 15ish minutes uninterrupted was not good. And that's no knock on her. Had it been a conversation between the two, I would have enjoyed it much more.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Just saw a tweet from the official Literotica account that the site has kicked off an ‘official’ podcast, although the posting was a few days old. Krystine Kellog is an audio narrator specialising in erotica. Lunar Hiccups (Ella) is, well, not sure. At the moment, much of the site is down for maintenance so I can’t look anything up. Just the Forums seem to be up.

So… which of our illustrious authors (of which I’m not) will they invite?

LunarHiccups is an author/recorder here: https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=5343703&page=submissions

 

[SimonDoom]

This. 110% this.

I had never been exposed to Lunar Hiccups prior to listening. Her content seems to be right up my alley and I will be following her and checking out her website. But to just listen to her talk for 15ish minutes uninterrupted was not good. And that's no knock on her. Had it been a conversation between the two, I would have enjoyed it much more.

I assume the questions were given to her ahead of time so she could prepare her answers and be more confident in giving them. It's probably technically easier to do it this way than to do it as a remote 2-way interview.

It's an interesting idea.

There was an author a few years ago who conducted interviews with a variety of Lit authors and published them here as articles, and I thought that was a worthwhile project. I'd like to see something like that continue. It would probably be more comfortable (and anonymous) for most authors to do an interview in writing than via an audiorecording.

 

[Phantom300]

I assume the questions were given to her ahead of time so she could prepare her answers and be more confident in giving them. It's probably technically easier to do it this way than to do it as a remote 2-way interview.

Oh, I know it is easier to produce a podcast that way, it just makes for a less engaging podcast IMO

Now doing that in a written forum is mich more appealing. Ive been part of a forum community where we did that, answer a set of stock questiins and then for a week the other members would ask further questions. Then theyd pick the next victim and theyd have their week in the spotlight.

 

[Manu]

I assume the questions were given to her ahead of time so she could prepare her answers and be more confident in giving them. It's probably technically easier to do it this way than to do it as a remote 2-way interview.

The interviews are done like normal podcast interviews. We work on questions together with Krystine before starting the interview and then Krystine does a normal recorded two person interview. We take those long interviews and edit them down into a quick profile of the creator.

The show concept is for each episode to be 20-30 minutes and packed with information. If we used the standard podcast interview format, some of the episodes (we have several already recorded) would be 2+ hours, which we want to avoid. The format and length might change in the future, but for now we want to give people as much of the creator as we can in as little time as possible.

This format of podcast interview is used by many other podcasts. One of the most popular podcasts in the world, Song Exploder uses the format.

 

[Manu]

Oh, I know it is easier to produce a podcast that way, it just makes for a less engaging podcast IMO

The format we are using takes much more time to produce because of the way we have to format questions and then the lengthy editing process. If you do a standard two person interview, you sometimes don't have to edit at all, you can do those live.

 

[Phantom300]

That seems insane IMO. To record the entire conversation, and not give us something from the host other than intro and outro, just makes no sense.

I would gladly listen to 2 hours of two people talking to one another and drilling down on the hows and whys than 20 minutes of half a conversation.

Every podcast I enjoy is a two or three people having a discussuon on a topic. One generally steers the ship, but is still part of the reason to listen.

Obviously YMMV. The production values were solid, audio crisp and no volume discrepancies you sometimes hear.

 

[lunarhiccups]

Hi! I'm new to the forum side, but wanna thank you for listening I'm super grateful to Lit & I had a ton of fun talking to Krystine (we did actually talk for hours and I adore her!) I can't wait to listen to more episodes so I can get to know the rest of the creators here!

 

[SimonDoom]

The interviews are done like normal podcast interviews. We work on questions together with Krystine before starting the interview and then Krystine does a normal recorded two person interview. We take those long interviews and edit them down into a quick profile of the creator.

The show concept is for each episode to be 20-30 minutes and packed with information. If we used the standard podcast interview format, some of the episodes (we have several already recorded) would be 2+ hours, which we want to avoid. The format and length might change in the future, but for now we want to give people as much of the creator as we can in as little time as possible.

This format of podcast interview is used by many other podcasts. One of the most popular podcasts in the world, Song Exploder uses the format.

I don't have a particular problem with your format. I know other podcasts with similar formats. The interviewer starts things off, but then turns things over to the interviewee to do almost all the talking.

To create a little more listening interest, though, you might want to consider having the interviewer break it up just a little bit more. Not question by question, but perhaps by interjecting something once in a while, after 4 or 5 minutes, to break things up and help frame the next subject thematically. That way it comes across more as an interview or dialogue than as a monologue. Just a thought.

I think this is a very good idea if you can get enough Literotica contributors to sign on. I encourage you to keep going. Kudos to lunarhiccups for being your first guinea pig.

 

[NotWise]

Hi! I'm new to the forum side, but wanna thank you for listening I'm super grateful to Lit & I had a ton of fun talking to Krystine (we did actually talk for hours and I adore her!) I can't wait to listen to more episodes so I can get to know the rest of the creators here!

Welcome to the forum, and fear not! We'll only corrupt you a little.

 

[lunarhiccups]

Welcome to the forum, and fear not! We'll only corrupt you a little.

Looking forward to it Only one way to lose the "virgin" tag here

 

[lovecraft68]

Seeing these Podcasts are mostly going to draw people who are already part of lit, I'd think it would make sense to go with popular authors on lit. No one here had ever heard of the first guest.

Why not reach out to Silkstockinglover who is on an insane 42 fav pages? Or someone with name recognition.

Or is this like every thing else and it will just be personal site favs?

 

[SimonDoom]

Seeing these Podcasts are mostly going to draw people who are already part of lit, I'd think it would make sense to go with popular authors on lit. No one here had ever heard of the first guest.

Why not reach out to Silkstockinglover who is on an insane 42 fav pages? Or someone with name recognition.

Or is this like every thing else and it will just be personal site favs?

I suspect one very practical reason is that lunarhiccups does audio stories. She's revealed her voice already. Some authors, especially very prominent ones like SSL, might be reluctant to do that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Meanwhile as Lit spends time working on something no one asked for, the top lists continue to be down meaning any fav anyone gets on the stories that qualify for that list is going into the void.

Every third post here gets the 'oops' issue and there's myriad other issues here. But this is what they do.


But why fix something that affects the people who make money when you can eat up time on 'hey that would be cool' projects

 

[lovecraft68]

I suspect one very practical reason is that lunarhiccups does audio stories. She's revealed her voice already. Some authors, especially very prominent ones like SSL, might be reluctant to do that.

You could be right, but don't know until you ask. Not like these things are going to break then net so I don't think there's much chance of being outed.

 

[NotWise]

Lit announced their second podcast a few days ago and I took time last night to listen in.

InMyHands has a great voice and some interesting ideas. He raised my interest in the media enough to sample some of the recent audio offerings (none of which were InMyHands'). I'd never gone there before.

Nope. Not for me--either as a producer or as a listener. It obviously floats someone's boat, just not mine.

 

[SimonDoom]

Lit announced their second podcast a few days ago and I took time last night to listen in.

InMyHands has a great voice and some interesting ideas. He raised my interest in the media enough to sample some of the recent audio offerings (none of which were InMyHands'). I'd never gone there before.

Nope. Not for me--either as a producer or as a listener. It obviously floats someone's boat, just not mine.

I listened to a minute or two of it, and I agree, he has a great voice. If you like audio stories, he'd be a good one to listen to.

I don't. I listened to a very few just to get a sample of what it's all about, and it didn't interest me. I like reading too much. I like looking at the words and imagining the sounds and images in my own way, at my own pace.

It's interesting how it seems to be a niche that is separate and apart from the written-word side of the site.

 

[lovecraft68]

I listened to a minute or two of it, and I agree, he has a great voice. If you like audio stories, he'd be a good one to listen to.

I don't. I listened to a very few just to get a sample of what it's all about, and it didn't interest me. I like reading too much. I like looking at the words and imagining the sounds and images in my own way, at my own pace.

It's interesting how it seems to be a niche that is separate and apart from the written-word side of the

My wife and I are opposites in this. If she tries to read for a length of time, she falls asleep, but she can listen to hours of audio, even while sitting back and not doing anything else.

I can read a hundred pages in a sitting without coming up for air, but fifteen minutes of audio, I'm lost in my own head, I need to see the words to focus.

 

[lovecraft68]

When I heard Lit was doing a pod cast I thought maybe it would be geared more towards the bigger named authors talking erotica or writing erotica, their experiences here etc...

Seems like its an attempt to pimp the audio category which has a very small readership and authorship. I'd be interested in hearing someone, almost anyone on this forum, chat a bit about their writing, ideas, process etc... I'm not interested in an erotic version of my wife's Toastmasters club.

Cue Barbara from Shark Tank "For That Reason I'm Out."

 

[lovecraft68]

Lit announced their second podcast a few days ago and I took time last night to listen in.

InMyHands has a great voice and some interesting ideas. He raised my interest in the media enough to sample some of the recent audio offerings (none of which were InMyHands'). I'd never gone there before.

Nope. Not for me--either as a producer or as a listener. It obviously floats someone's boat, just not mine.

This floats Laurel Manu's boat, no one else's boat matters. This site's functionality is as bad or worse than its been in my 13 years here, so....let's do a podcast.

 

[SimonDoom]

I agree it would be much more interesting to hear a podcast with a prominent longtime author, although I appreciate the audio authors stepping up to do it.

I'd be VERY interested in hearing a podcast with Laurel and/or Manu.

 

[lovecraft68]

I agree it would be much more interesting to hear a podcast with a prominent longtime author, although I appreciate the audio authors stepping up to do it.

I'd be VERY interested in hearing a podcast with Laurel and/or Manu.

They could do a once a month update, this is what's happening, what we're planning...
But who knows who they are in real life and what their families know or don't know of lit, so although the odds would be insane someone who knew them would hear it, I suppose there's always that chance.