Some New Stories!

[kristoff]

In that case I have twenty to go. Now what?

Signed,

Avid Fan

Keep on reading, you might find some more to add to the list.

[Cainanite (imported)]

New stories will be up late tonight.

Chaos theory is to blame. Not me. Don't blame me.

As Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park, "Life finds a way."

It did, and that is what I am dealing with.

Sorry.

(Now, does anyone know how I can get these damn Velociraptors back in their cages? Right now I am only seeing just the one... Oh, damn.)

[considering (imported)]

They are a mess and the clean up afterwards....yuck. Professor Wittelbach at Mayan State says one thing you can do is stake out a virgin Brontosaurus but he was quite specific about the virgin part. Mary Lou Updike, Buena Park Ca. says that spraying them in the nose with Mr. Clean makes them go away but....she also thinks that her husband was castrated as part of a city wide campaign to get more people to use the public golf courses. .....

[Cainanite (imported)]

Okay. Here we go.

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All Soaked Up" by Lew Troop (https://eunuchworld.co/s

14064) [Gay] [Testicles]

"Two

Guys One Cock" by jearns85 (https://eunuchworld.co/s14065

) [Detachable Penis] [Gay] [Penectomy]

"Bus

iness Reasons" by Lew Troop (https://eunuchworld

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"Office Perks" by beanbags (https:[quote="Cainanite

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"The Vow" by warmermonths (
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"Eight" by Lew Tro

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"Shave and Cut

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4070) [Gay] [Penectomy] [Testicles]

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I may publish some late entries this weekend. I just couldn't get to them all.

Happy Reading!

Cainanite

[StefanIsMe (imported)]

What an update. I can't spend the time reading tonight, but I look forward to reading these (and any others you post!) on Saturday afternoon.

How incredible is that list?! Good variety of authors, too.

THANK YOU, all authors!! And of course Cainanite, Uploader Extraordinaire

[Cainanite (imported)]

Hooray! You get story updates a day early!

Here we go!

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"Cyril Martin's Destiny - Cha

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"Lessons to be Taught" by Lew Troop (https://eunuchworld.co/s14075) [Gay] [Minor?

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Note:

One author has responded to me that he will no longer be publishing any stories with us. My request that he follow submission guidelines was apparently a bridge too far.

For the record, if I send you an email asking that you correct certain issues with how you submitted a story, this is not meant with hostility, or anger. I only respond to authors if I truly think they can improve. If your submission is not to guidelines, I am under ZERO obligation to tell you why I am not publishing it. I only send correspondence to authors I want to publish. If you are rejected and I don't think what you have written has any value, I simply will not publish it, and you will never know why.

So, here is my question.

Do you authors want me to tell you why I will not publish your story, or would you prefer not to know? Would you like me to let you know where you need to change, or would you like to

remain in ignorance?

Most of the time I have written to an author asking that they change somethin

g, or explaining why I have n

ot published them, I am met with indignation, and hostility. I know that writers are an emotional

group of people. Most artists are. However, with notable exceptions (thank you to those who have responde

d kindly) my emails suggesting changes ignite nothing

but rage from the person I am sending it to.

These are the guidelines;

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http://

www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread.php?

10515-Story-Guidelines-Read-BEFORE-You-Post-Anything!

further expanded upon here;

http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread.php?2

2894-A-Call-to-EA-Authors-It-s-time-for-new-stories

Are these really that hard to follow? Is an editor asking you to follow these guidelines really too much to ask?

Let me know. I really want to know. If people really don't want to know why their stories are rejected, I need to know that. In the past we did not let people know why their story was not published. Perhaps I should go back to that policy. I just know that if it were me, I would want to know so that I could improve.

Your feedback would be very valuable to me.

Happy Reading!

Cainanite

[Paolo]

One author has responded to me that he will no longer be publishing any stories with us. My request that he follow submission guidelines was apparently a bridge too far.

Oh well. My thoughts are "Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out."

In my day, if it violated guidelines, I simply tossed it. Then again, our Illustrious Founder didn't "hire" me to be the 'good cop'.

You people (readers) here are spoiled rotten with Cainanite, I just want you all to know. Worship him for the story god that he is!

[Dave (imported)]

...

Note:

One author has responded to me that he will no longer be publishing any stories with us. My request that he follow submission guidelines was apparently a bridge too far.

...

For the record, if I send you an email asking that you correct certain issues with how you submitted a story, this is not meant with hostility, or anger. I only respond to authors if I truly think they can improve. If your submission is not to guidelines, I am under ZERO obligation to tell you why I am not publishing it. I only send correspondence to authors I want to publish. If you are rejected and I don't think what you have written has any value, I simply will not publish it, and you will never know why.

So, here is my question.

Do you authors want me to tell you why I will not publish your story, or would you prefer not to know? Would you like me to let you know where you need to change, or would you like to

remain in ignorance?

Most of the time I have written to an author asking that they change something, or explaining why I have not published them, I am met with indignation, and hostility. I know that writers are an emotional

group of people. Most artists are. However, with notable exceptions (thank you to those who have responde

d kindly) my emails suggesting changes ignite nothing

but rage from the person I am sending it to.

...

Are these really that hard to follow?

...

Welcome to the world of editors.

First: let me say that I'm easy on editors. I learned publishing technical papers with coauthors not to invest ego in the paper. I also learned when I did technical presentations that everyone criticized. SO when an editor asks for the right to copy edit, I say OK and when the editor asks me to cut 1000 words, I do it. But that's me...

What I learned is that regardless of how harsh a comment sounds (Even to "this writing is shitty") it is still useful and a source of improvement. Now that takes courage to hear an ugly comment and still find improvement in it. It is also hard to take a very involved comment and understand how to fix it but that is part of writing and that is how writers improve.

Now let me say this:

I see none of that editor/writer arraignment in fiction, short stories or novels.

What I do see is "ego" on both sides.

Editors want grand literate stories that live up to the highest of English Lit standards" and of course since they have a BA or MS in some branch of literature or Journalism that's worth doo-doo in the job market, they can tell a writer everything is wrong with their story or why it isn't worthy to be in their anthology.

Editors don't just put out themes like "Zombies" they say "I want a story that isn't anything like what I've read" and the writer who reads that says "huh? Am I clairvoyant?"

Or the editor says "I want an anthology of spectacular stories that are new, innovative, different and about robots (let's use that example)" and what they wait for is 10 short stories as brilliant as Isaac Asimov's I ROBOT.

It ain't going to happen.

Writers have to put up with that or they don't get published.

But then, as you have found out...

Writers are temperamental since every word they write is worthy of Shakespeare and perfect and you dare to criticize them.

Writers send you a story and you should be glad to see it in any form. Why not? YOu ahve nothing else to do with your time (yeah right sure)

ANd to some writers, punctuation means nothing and if you change their punctuation, you are in trouble.

Worst thing an editor can say to a writer is "It's too long, cut it down"... I have done very little editing but I did have a job once where I had to ask people to keep the number of words down and my favorite request was "Cut by half" ... That used to piss people off like you wouldn't believe and I had mucho fun with it.

And why don't you want profanity or God being mentioned or those words (we know which words" being used?

The biggest sin against writers is making a writer wait a year for a decision or not even informing them of being rejected until after the anthology is published. That's the editor I really despise...

It's a ton of ego on both sides.

My best advice is to say "This doesn't meet guidelines" and put the links for them to follow and then just don't get bothered when they explode.

It might not be comforting but you aren't alone in receiving bad formatting, ignored guidelines, non-existant punctuation, and everything else that causes rejections. I do a bit of editing for one of the publishers and when I have to say "this chunk of writing is wrong for the story" I hide behind the principle editor.

Another publishing house has dirt simple guidelines and yet a month doesn't pass that one or the other of their editors doesn't comment on bad formatting, hidden formatting, odd spacings, margins, adding unwanted page numbers or headers and footers. Since this publishing house has more than a dozen anthologies open at any one time and six or seven editors, writers just blunder through stories without following any guidelines, some post them as comments on a BB, others send them in funky fonts or bizarrely formatted in weird fonts. And yet, the first comment for each anthology contains the same guidelines for everyone to follow.

But those guidelines aren't followed. Amazing, isn't it?

You are not alone and you are not seeing anything unusual in the world of publishing.

Paolo has good advice - say "this doesn't meet guidelines" and that's it. Or say "we don't publish that" and leave it.

The reply I get most often is "This doesn't suit our needs at the time. Good luck elsewhere" ...

[Cainanite (imported)]

Yeah. I think I have made my decision.

From now on I will simply reject those stories that are not following submission guidelines. Too bad. So sad.

Frankly, it will mean less work for me to do. Sadly, that may also mean less stories getting published too. Right now I will give new authors the benefit of the doubt, and will do the extra work of writing tags for them, story descriptions, removing all those extra lines between paragraphs, removing all the bad code because they didn't send it in the right format, and practically rewriting their submissions from scratch because they typed the story into the body of the email instead of just sending me the attachment.

Seriously, I have been VERY forgiving of people not following the guidelines. I am done.

I don't like doing this because there is a very good chance we will have a lot less stories to read, but I am done dealing with ungrateful people who think the rules don't apply to them.

From now on there will be no more second chances. If you don't see your story show up, or a couple updates go by and it is not there. It was rejected. Don't bother emailing me to find out why. It is not my job to tell you. I tried that already, and it didn't work out so well.

Read and follow the guidelines. That is all you have to do to get published.

I have tried to be the nice guy, and I was warned not to be. Well this is the end of Mr. Nice Guy.

Long live the hard assed editor.

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I have been around here a long time. Of the hand full of things that actually piss me off the strain on story editors is near the top - NOTHING comes close to the political forum for getting my bad temper working. Authors should have and do have a wide allowance for artistic expression; this is reserved for authors not the editors. Editors, in order to function, to bring the stories to the rest of us, need to be able to read and assess the story's value to the potential readers. It makes me sad when a story is submitted in a form that can not be used. I means we have been denied what may be a worthy experience. If your story is rejected, re-build it and try again we appreciate your work and wish to see it in a useable form. I have tried many times to write stories in a manner that would be good for all to read; I have failed miserably. Because it sounds good in my head does not mean anyone else will see it that way. -=-FLO--