Guidelines
For Stories
As my site is open for
viewing to all, including minors,
without restriction, I feel I must place some common sense rules on
what I will
post here.
Anyone who wishes their
story on the Bookshelf needs to read
the following guides and then just send me an email and ask. Put “Story Request” in the
subject line to help pick it out of the SPAM.
It’s just that simple. You
do not have to wait for me to come to you first. I
welcome new material both furry and
non-furry, stories and poetry.
I will not post stories
with graphic sex, also, no stories
in which sex is the sole reason for its existence. Keep
the yiff at
"warm" or below. Highly
detailed stuff is not necessary. When
left to the reader’s imagination and written properly, just a hint can
be
quite steamy.
Also please keep the
language under control. I do not mind the
occasional usage if it helps
the story along and is fitting for the character but to try and see how
many
"four letter words" can be packed into a story will force me to deny
posting it. The level of language
allowed will depend on the necessity to the story line.
No extreme graphic
violence, torture, rape and the like. It
can happen and be mentioned, just don't
describe it in detail. And please put a
warning at the start of the chapter to let readers know about the
subject
matter.
No stories that present
drugs or drinking in a favorable
light. These are a big enough problem
without someone convincing a young impressionable reader that things
like this
are a good thing to do.
If your story contains
someone else's characters, please do
them the courtesy to ask if they have any objection to the posting. I will assume that you have secured
permission for their use before sending me the story.
If the copyright holder of any characters in
your story contacts me and asks that the story containing them be
removed, IT
WILL BE AT ONCE. So make sure to get
that permission.
If an author wishes
their story to be removed then I will do
so. I will be sorry to see it go but your
wish will be honored. If you just have a
bad writers block and don’t know when or if you will continue then try
leaving it up for a while. Maybe
tomorrow the block will break, you never know.
Any story that has gone
for 18 months with no new material added
or submitted for editing, shall be removed from the shelf and placed in
storage. If something new is received
then the story will be taken out of storage, the new material added and
put
back on the shelf again.
If everyone behaves in
a similar responsible manner I will
not have to deny placing their story on the shelf for the readers.
I am
trusting that the authors who post to the Raccoon’s Bookshelf have read
the Guidelines and those who are thinking of doing so will read or have
read
them as well.
I ask
that you please think about the future of your story carefully. I
prefer not to
be in a position to need to censor any of them and would rather that
job be
done by the author. If your story is
within and will remain within the guides I welcome it here.
If it
does not or is such that it may not remain within them, then I must ask
that in
all fairness to the readers that you post in a place appropriate for
it. Now that Kinsfire’s
Adult Bookshelf is up, there is a place for some of these and he may be
willing
to accept them.
To begin
to post on my shelf and then have a chapter required to be posted
elsewhere is
not fair to the readers. You may have
gotten some readers who are not old enough to join KAB, and would be
left
hanging. If I have a story that becomes
too difficult to hold to the guidelines I will ask the author to move
the
entire book and I will contact Kinsfire
to see if he will take it. Again it could
leave some readers hung out to
dry. This is something I do not wish to
happen and would prefer the book never to start here if there is any
question
of its future suitability.
Any
authors I have on the shelf now, I will work with to keep them here and
their
work available to all their readers.
The
authors have already displayed a commitment to keep things in line. I can’t tell you guys how much I
appreciate that. Your efforts also help
keep the Bookshelf where it is.
Thanks
Mike Regan
The Old Gray Raccoon
Rev.