Oysters and Chocolate is closing down.
(Update: as of February 2013, O&C appears to be closed. The site is *poof* gone.)
In case you've never heard of it, Oysters and Chocolate is a site that's been bringing erotica readers free smut for the better part of a decade. And not just any free smut--really good stuff. The best erotica available for free online, it's safe to say.
Last year, Every Night Erotica, a site which brought us free short erotic stories every night, closed its doors. Now Oysters and Chocolate is saying goodbye. As an author, I loved these sites because they were a way to showcase my work in a place where readers could get a hold of it for free, and also get paid a modest fee. As a professional writer, getting paid is vitally important. That probably sounds dumb, but it's easy enough to write for free. It's hard to make a living.
I particularly loved Oysters and Chocolate because they were eager to publish lesbian erotica--with a focus on real, authentic, hot and kinky or sweet and lovely lesbian sex. As a queer writer, I always felt at home with O&C.
Suffice to say, I'm sad to see them go. And for all the readers who will miss their free smut, I've created a page right here at Donuts and Desires:
Bye bye, O&C. I'll always love you!
Hugs,
Giselle
Thanks for spreading the word, Giselle. I'm totally heartbroken over this. I sold my first story to O&C, and have always sold them at least a couple stories each year since then. For exactly the reasons you named, I loved them as a writer. As a reader, O&C really helped me get comfortable with my love of erotica. The literary quality made me feel like I wasn't just reading trash, and helped me appreciate erotica of a bunch of different genres.
ReplyDeleteSince I also contributed to and read Every Night Erotica, I feel like there's a huge hole opening up. I am crossing my fingers that something similar will come along, but I recognize that running sites like these is a really hard job.
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