Shakin’ Up That Can of Raid
Hello authors!  We’ve just fixed a bug related to circle invites.  Some people who are invited to a circle and subsequently accept aren’t automatically subscribed to the circle.  Being a member and being subscribed are two different things–when you subscribe, you receive email updates from the circle, which you can [...]

Not too long ago we changed the karma system to reward longer critiques by the word.  We promised to keep an eye on how the new numbers were working out to make sure that you’d still getting great critiques.  In that spirit, we’ve upped the amount of karma it takes to publish a work, from [...]

Another month, another fistful of prizes to hand out!  Your votes are in and we’ve finished reading all of the fantastic entries for the June Mystery Contest.  Each entry was outstanding–and believe us, we’ve read a lot of good fiction in our days, so we know good when we see it.  But as always we’ve [...]

We’ve just released the “re-publish” button that we promised in our post introducing Archives.  If you head to manage your work in My Desk, you’ll see the shiny new button on any of your archived works.  You can re-publish your work as often as you like, and each time you do, your work will get [...]

The July Contest Is Here!
Writers, at your keyboards–the July contest has begun!  This month we’ll be looking for poetry, and the theme is “questions.”  We’ll leave it up to you to decide what that means.  We liked the submissions for our last contest so much that we’ve decided to open the July contest to ALL [...]

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy…
Summer’s here!  Inbetween sips of lemonade and long staring sessions off of the front porch we managed to find the time to compile the June Mystery Contest entries.  If you don’t see your entry here, it’s probably because you didn’t read the rules closely!
And here they are, without further ado:
Bondage, [...]