What is the most popular erotic genre? Authors talk about this all the time and now we have an answer.

Over the years there have been many Writing Festivals. Stories were submitted in all categories and we saw 40, 50 and as many as 60 stories in a festival. This time it will take a complete day for moderation to release all the stories for the Summer Solstice Festival. We'll get to read more stories in this festival than we've seen in any other. What do they all have in common? Romance. The one common denominator that brought so many authors and stories together on one day is romance. Now we know the most popular erotic genre.

Festival stories come in many flavors. We have summer flash stories of 500 words or less. A couple of challenge categories where the authors were required to use a specified beginning and go anywhere they wanted in less than 2500 words. We have stories "through the eyes of ... " where the author looked at life through eyes that he or she devised. There are classic tales included in the festival where the author told us background information and let us in on some secrets about the story.

We were lucky enough to have Anne747 review the work of the festival. She is one of the most experienced writers associated with alt.sex.stories and all the authors were pleased when she decided to take on the job of official festival reviewer. Her comments will be the record of this event and mark the occasion as something special.

On June 21, 2002 the authors of alt.sex.stories.moderated had a party to celebrate romance. The party was a big success.

Katie McN