I'd like to add my own experiences to this thread, if I may. I am both author, and to an extent reader.

As a reader, I don't think I've ever written any reviews. It would be quite hypocritical for me to moan about lack of reviews so I won't. If I may offer my poor excuse for why I haven't written a review, it is this: it seems that every time I read a story on this site, I always end up with a feeling that it "wasn't really my cup of tea". That's why I started writing myself really; every story seemed to feature a twist or action that put me off, I'm quite picky in that respect. And because of this, I didn't write a review. Writing a review would have involved either marking them down for a part of the story that didn't meet my preferences (which seemed unfair), or ignoring that part of the story (which meant reviewing only part of the story, which seemed wrong). So I haven't written a review. A lame excuse I know, but there it is.

So I decided to write some stories. Some of them have had reviews, some haven't. But what may interest other authors is that I decided to put my e-mail address at the bottom of stories with a note saying to e-mail me if you enjoyed the story. I was interested to see if this would generate any e-mails to me or not. The answer was that it did; I have had e-mails from more people than have reviewed my stories. The people that e-mail seem to be distinct from those that have reviewed.

The stories I seem to have got most e-mails about are the ones with primarily F/m or similar codes. Most of the e-mails appear to be from male subs. If I look down the new stories on the main page of the library right now, there are 38 new stories. Only 1 of these has a F(+)/m(+) code. I think that speaks volumes.

Feel free to suggest reasons that people seem more inclined to e-mail the author than write a review, or why F/m stories are so lacking, as I am a little stumped on that count.