Ditching Lush Stories

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Quick note: I’ve deleted all my works from Lush Stories. Literotica will be the only place to find my stories.

Why? They seriously botched roll-out of a site remake, breaking many things while removing many features. Worse, the main purpose of the site is no longer on reading and publishing erotica but on sex chat and drawing clients to their other payware sites. I’m not interested in my stories being used as bait for those sites, especially for free.

My habit was to publish stories on Literotica first then post an edited version to Lush later. It exposed my writing to a different audience (mostly readers in the UK). providing some helpful additional reader insight (stories that did really well on Literotica often didn’t on Lush, and vice-versa).

Readership on Lush is tiny compared to Literotica and with the painful typography and missing features, I expect readership to dwindle further. It’s not worth posting on Lush any longer and I’m not willing to let them make money off my stories without compensation.

Writer Beware

If you post fiction on the Internet, whether erotica or otherwise, eventually it will be stolen and republished for profit as an eBook on Amazon or other sellers.

Literotica has a section devoted to how to send copyright takedowns to Amazon, but unless you’re vigilant and constantly googling for your stories, someone somewhere will steal your work and sell it as an eBook. It’s only a matter of time.

That hasn’t happened to my stories yet as far as I’ve found, but fragments of my stories show up as stuffing on unrelated content, possibly to draw attention from search engines.

Selling stolen content on Amazon is only one of a long list of scams writers face. If you’re interested in getting your work published for real, there are entire industries of scammers profiting from aspiring writers.

Some of the scams are obvious, others very subtle.

666 followers and one million views!

My followers count on Literotica ticked over to 666. That’s 43 new followers since posting the light-hearted romp Seaside with Two Sisters for the 2021 Summer Lovin contest.

Thank you to everyone who has followed me, commented, voted or even just read any of my works. You’re beautiful people with obviously refined and superior taste in filthy smutty stories. Reader support and feedback is what keeps writers writing.

A huge thanks also to my incredible beta-reader and all-round beautiful person Omenainen. Check out her stories on Literotica, especially her own entry in Summer Lovin, Cruising Altitude.

If you haven’t already, please encourage your friendly neighborhood smut authors by reading and voting on this year’s contest entries. Voting is open for a few more days.

A separate but less significant milestone: total views for all my stories since the first one went live in 2017 just passed one million. Literotica seems to record any access of the first page of each story, so that number includes not only humans who read entire stories, but also anyone who clicked accidentally or read only the first few lines, plus web scrapers and possibly search engines.

A number like 666 must be a sign to start working on a story for the upcoming Literotica Halloween contest—my favorite. Halloween and sexy (or funny) stories seem to go together. Check out my previous entries:

Kyle the Weremoose Gets Lucky (2020) – Halloween is the worst time for were-moose – link

– “Har-har Weremoose! This was the funniest Halloween story I’ve read in a long time.” 

Recall (2019) – Halloween party hookup. A beginning or something else? – link

– “Amazing, well written, awesome twist in the end, a delight to read.”

Damned Dumb Demon (2018) – Friends summon a horny Hades Client Service Associate – link

– “This may be the funniest but sweetest damn thing I’ve read on this site. Loving your work!”

Politics in stories

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Someone once said that writers can’t fool their readers, meaning that however smart (or stupid) a writer is, their personal viewpoints, experiences, world view and politics always seep into their writing, even when they try not to.

Many writers, though, purposely insert their political views into their writing.

Charles Dickens didn’t try to hide his disgust of Victorian English society and the dominant religions of the time. He weaved pleas for compassion of the poor and disadvantaged into his novels, which rule-smothered, deeply hypocritical, caste-based Victorian society sorely lacked. His stories were very popular and his activism and the political messages embedded in works like David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities and, of course, A Christmas Carol helped foster reforms and initiatives in public welfare.

Loathsome maggot Ayn Rand, a reprehensible hypocrit, wrote her turgid novels solely to sell her grotesque justifications of selfishness, greed, fascism and “might makes right.”

Story stats – Seaside with Two Sisters

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My latest story Seaside with Two Sisters has been out for about a week now. It’s been performing much better than I expected.

Let’s look at some numbers:

Views: 26,080
Favorites: 43
Votes: 541
Comments: 9
Rating: 4.79 – 4.80
New followers: 38

Not bad at all. It’s a fun story, but I expected the score to be much lower and also expected far more comments.

The jump in additional followers is a surprise. Now there are 660 wonderful human beings following me, and I’m grateful for every single one. There have also been many new readers adding older stories to their favorites, so I guess it’s true the reason to enter Literotica contests isn’t to win, it’s for increased exposure.

The story has done well, though doesn’t compare to the all-time most popular story On the Side. . That one really took off… in just 3.5 days it got 603 votes and 55 favorites (full stats for that story are here). All the more amazing since it wasn’t a contest entry.

The score of Seaside with Two Sisters will probably go up slightly once Literotica does their sweep at the end of the contest—the downside of the attention entering a contest brings is that it also attracts scumbags who bomb the stories with one-star ratings.

Whatever. I didn’t write the story to win prizes—I wrote it for the exposure, to improve my writing skills and, most of all, to craft a story readers would enjoy.