One thing that writers soon discover is that it is a 'two-way street'. Why write another 10,000 finely crafted words if nobody bothered to tell you they enjoyed the previous story? It may not be art but somebody is likely to have spent many hours or days writing the story, even if the grammar and spelling are not so good in some cases. (This is something I try to bear in mind before being too critical).

Flavius, we're looking forward to seeing your reviews (now I've made you feel suitably ashamed ;-) )

Vlad, You raise some good points about other sites. I also enjoy reviews on other sites such as amazon.com and the wonderful IMDB.com (where I review regularly). However, my conclusion is that the review rate is not much different at amazon compared to BDSMLibrary (maybe even lower). It's impossible to quantify at IMDB as they don't actually sell the movies!


Perhaps Jinn could let us know whether the number of reviews has gone up since this topic started. My feeling is that it has.

I think the programming of the site is fine. A link to review and another to email the author at the beginning and end of each story. What could be easier? The important thing is to keep hounding and cajoling the readers into making reviews and sending emails to authors. That's what keeps authors writing!

Maybe if we said enough nice things to him we could even get Parker to write another story for the site ;-)