www.freeeroticstoriessite.com
Guidelines effective: 12/10/08
By submitting erotic short stories to Free Erotic Stories Site, you certify the following:
You are the sole creator of the submission;
You are 18 years of age or older and legally able to write, submit and read erotic or pornographic material;
You grant freeeroticstoriessite.com the right to publish your submissions as received by freeeroticstoriessite.com
CONTENT:
We are looking quality written erotica, with a particularly emphasis on Bondage/BDSM themes, including:
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Male domination/female submission
- Female Domination/male submission
- Female Domination/female submission
- Spanking (in all the above categories)
Also:
- General erotic stories (meaning no bdsm, femdom or spanking content)
- Erotic Poetry (submit to the category that fits the content)
- Erotic Flash Fiction (short meaning under 1000)
- While M/m content is acceptable within the context of certain stories, we are not seeking solely gay male erotica.
TABOOS:
Underage sexual activity (including flashbacks). For purposes of this site, the legal age is 18. incest excrement snuff (death during sex) bestiality (stories about supernatural beasts like ghosts, unicorns, werewolves are permissible)
Stories with any of the above content will NOT be posted.
This site does not publish stories, articles, essays, or other material supporting, encouraging, or defending child abuse and/or exploitation.
We reserve the right to reject stories for other content that is deemed objectionable by our editors.
Stories with Excessive Violence could be rejected. This could include acts beyond normal BDSM activity, including punching, hitting, kicking, blood-letting, depending on the quantity and level of intensity of such content.
If you have any content concerns, please feel free to query us with your questions.
TO SUBMIT STORIES:
Open an on-line account by clicking “Author Access” at the top of the website.
Inside your account go to ‘Add Story’. In this location, you can write, edit and save stories on-line. You can hold stories in your account, go back to them at another time and add or edit. You publish them to the Web only when you’re ready to give your final approval.
Stories can also be clipped from documents on your computer and pasted into the text box in the Add Story Feature. If the Paste feature does not work in your browser, you may need to use Control/Insert to insert copy into the box.
-Hightlight Story and press control C to copy
-Then press contril V to paste
NOTE: We recommend that you save all your content on your own computer. You can highlight, copy and paste stories into your own computer documents. However the text editor where you paste is full featured so you can write/edit on line.
Free Erotic Stories Site is not responsible for any stories that may be lost due to glitches in software, server crashes or acts of God.
You need to choose an appropriate title for your story as well as a ‘Tag line’: a descriptive phrase or sentence about your story that will catch a reader’s attention. The ‘Tag line’ can be crucial in getting readers to open your story, so be sure on consider this information carefully. If you are posting an erotic poem or flash fiction (very short erotica) you will want to include this information in the tag line.
Stories can also be submitted through email. Please send via email in a file attachment only. Stories pasted into the body of an email will not be considered. Send emails to: editor@freeeroticstoriessite.com but you must be registered on the site as an author
Please name your file with the story name.
Include at the top of the story:
1) Your name (optional)
2) Your penname
3) Your email address
4) Story title
5) What genre of erotica is included (i.e. spanking, femdom, M/f bdsm, general etc.)
6) Tag line as described above
All manuscripts must be submitted via email must be Word files (.doc), text files (.txt) or Rich Text Files (.rtf). If your story uses bolds or italics, you will need to submit it as a .doc or .rtf. DO NOT submit .docx files.
NOTE: Stories submitted via email will take longer to post than those submitted through your on-line account.
STORY LENGTH:
We are accepting short stories of roughly 1,000-4000 in length.
Stories longer than 4,000 words should be broken down into chapters with each chapter submitted individually. (Note: the site allows you to link serialized stories)
We also accept quality Flash Fiction (under 1000 words) and poetry. Flash Fiction and Poetry should be submitted to the category that most reflects the content. If a story is Flash or Poetry, that information should be indicated in the tag line.
FORMATTING YOUR STORY FOR SUBMISSION:
The automated submission feature allows you to cut and paste your story on-line. You can choose a type font from those suggested as well as add special formatting, such as bold and italics.
Please break your story into reasonably sized paragraphs. Reading on a screen is different from reading from a book or magazine, as the flicker from computer monitors is tiring on the eye. Excessively long paragraphs are hard on readers’ eyes. For the same reason, we also recommend that you use double space between your paragraphs.
Be sure to run your manuscript through a spell checker and then read it over for anything the spellchecker missed before submitting. (note: a spellchecker will not correct for correctly spelled words that are used incorrectly: example: it’s instead of its.) This should eliminate one of the major errors that might cause a manuscript to be rejected.
Note: it is not uncommon for erotic fiction to include made-up words or derivatives of known words that might be rejected by a spell checker. As long as these words make sense within the context of a story, they will be allowed.
We expect submissions to come to us ready for the public. Stories with obvious spelling and grammatical errors are poorly received by readers. Even spell-checking your work with a software program can make the difference in whether readers like or dislike your work.
No HTML links or web addresses are allowed within stories, unless approved by the editors.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION:
Manuscripts are copyrighted in the name of the author. This means you must be the author of any story you submit.
Copyright law states that as soon as you write a work of fiction (or non-fiction), your work is copyright protected.
As the author, you retain rights to your stories and are free to post them elsewhere on the Internet.
Any posted story can be removed from our website through your on-line account. Don’t think authors have rights to remove stories but they can request
***Free Erotic Stories Site and Pink Flamingo Publications cannot protect authors from copyright infringement that could result from posting your work to the Free Erotic Stories Site.
WRITING RECOMMENDATIONS AND RESOURCES:
We expect cleanly written, edited manuscripts. Small errors will be corrected. We reserve the right to make those editorial changes to a story that we feel are necessary to enhance the quality of the work.
We recommend after writing your story that you put it aside for a few hours, or even a day or two, then come back later and reread to check for errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling that you may have missed the first time.
Strunk & White’s Elements of Style can be used as a general guideline for grammar. Check this link http://www.bartleby.com/141/
The rules for punctuating conversation are very specific and easy to follow. If you have any questions, the following is a handy reference:
http://www.literacyrules.com/pdf/Punctuating%20Conversation.pdf
THE APPROVAL PROCESS:
All stories require the approval of the webmaster before they are posted.
How quickly stories are approved for posting depends on the number of stories awaiting approval. We will consider stories in order that they are received.
Generally, authors can expect their stories posted with 3-7 days.
If there are problems with your story, or it is being rejected for any reason, you will be notified via the email address you provide in your profile.
Again, stories submitted through email will take longer than those submitted on-line.
PAYMENT:
No remuneration is paid for your stories
However, we will be offering monthly “Best Story Contests”
We will soon be posting On-line contest information.
READER COMMENTS:
We encourage comments, feedback and on-line discussion of stories that are posted to the website. The reader comments are for this purpose. Writers are looking for positive feedback, as well as useful comments or suggestions they might apply to their writing.
Comments that are obvious spam, advertising, rants or contain other objectionable content can and will be removed by the author or the webmaster.
