I am so sorry again. To all my readers I have an announcement that I understand will make some of you hate me. After the last incident I had every intention on coming back to FF with all my stories. The next chapter of Bodyguard & Second Chances is at the beta's as I write this and was to be posted tomorrow. However I have come across another problem. As many of you know FF is doing blind polls on almost every contest now, to prevent cheating and such.
Well I entered one of those contests, the DILF contest, I found the story two days before it was actually dated to end. However, the two running the contest didn't want voting to start until they had another story anyway. I contacted them informing them that I was in deed going to enter into the contest and it would be a Leah and Charlie pairing, not knowing any of the other pairings entered already.
So in those two days, I had a story written, beta'd and sent to the contest. Once they recieved my story they began the blind poll. Yest the winners were announced and long beyond once I got home from work I read that I won and the author of another L/C story entered into the contest, was accusing me of stealing her pairing and demanded an explanation as to why I entered the last minute and why I choose the same pairing. The author did not wait for me to reply before she posted her story along with a hateful announcement with a link to the contest.
Her readers then took it upon themselves to go to my story and completely bash my work accusing me of stealing and everything else. I have recieved hateful pm's and review because of it. Not only that if you will take a look at the reviews for the story now on my profile she is even sending them to my stories.
Why the lond response? I thought my readers deserved to know why it was I left the site I been writing at for over a year and took my stories with me. I am in fact done with FF. I have many articles and short stories published in real life, writing is my profession, FF was supposed to be a way to relax but hateful people have made that impossible. I cannot continue to write on a site that does nothing to protect their writers from this. The other author has even gone out of her way to call me and my beta a whore and told me to develop a thick skin that in writing people will judge and make comments on another story. While that is true, any writer, fantasy or reality, any writer should know not to accuse another of stealing their story.
The voting went on for a full week, if she or the co writer had a problem they couldve contacted those that run it, neither did. They waited until after I won to start this mess. I got one review that stated I shouldnt direct people to her story because in the orginal authors ann I did, I want my readers to read my story and read her and tell me if they thought I stole it. To whoever left that review, if her story was sooo much better then mine why did all the voters vote for me?
The only person that knew I wrote that story was in fact my beta, because to enter the story you needed a beta. I am aware that the story isnt my best work but I also know that I work hard for 2 days and it paid off cause I won.
I dont want my readers to be angry with me. I will give each of you the link to Jacob Black N Pack, the site my story is at now. At that site they have respect for each other. If one has an issue they tell you in a respectful, tasteful way, they dont bash anyone, not matter how wrong that person is. That is why I will remain on that site. If you dont want to enter another site I understand. PM me and I will send you the remaining chapters of whatever story you want. I know my readers are fantastic, caring people, they expressed that too me many other times and I hate to do something like this to them.
Yet I know that most of them wouldnt mind and would follow me whereever I go, hell some already have. Im not doing this to upset any of you, I just cant be part of a site that allows this to continue but removes stories because of lemons. That doesnt make sense to me.
I have contacted both FF and the two that ran the contest, including everything I sent her and she sent me. I will let you know the outcome of all that.
Thank you and I am honestly sorry this had to happen. - Ashley
Please check it out for yourself:
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