Girl on the Net

Do you have a blog where you post erotic stories? Would you like to turn your erotica into audio porn? Here’s how to get involved with the audio porn project.

This call for submissions is slightly different to previous rounds – please read the guidelines below and follow the instructions carefully if you’d like to submit. 

Why turn my work into audio porn?

If you write sexy words, the best way to ensure as many people as possible can enjoy them is to make them available in more than one format. That way, people who use screenreaders to navigate the internet can listen to your work read aloud by a fabulously sexy voice, rather than having to sit through the flat monotone of the robot voice. This is the key aim of the audio porn project, which we started a few years ago in response to a couple of requests from people who use screenreaders to access this blog.

On top of the accessibility benefits, making your work available as audio is great for your whole audience – including audio (and other playable media) in your posts allows people to enjoy your stories in whichever format they prefer.

It means more people can find your website too: playable media keeps people on your site for longer (stats nerds, here are the receipts: in March 2017, before I launched the audio porn project, people spent an average of 1 min 39 seconds on site – in March 2022 it was 4 minutes 22), which tells Google your site is worth ranking, and works in tandem with your other SEO to help you get noticed in search.

Plus, obviously, if I turn your work into audio porn you’ll get links back from each of the stories that feature here as well as an author page with permalinks to you too. Above all, you get the sexy joy of hearing your own words brought to life by one of the excellent readers who I’ll be working with on the next round.

What am I looking for?

Sexy blogs and stories – true or fiction – anywhere between 1000 and 3000 words. Usually calls for submissions state that work cannot be published elsewhere, but in this case I’m specifically looking for work that’s been published on your own site already, in a place where you could embed the audio once it’s live.

Please only pitch me work with links to where the work can be found. It should be:

a) hot

b) easy for a solo voice to read aloud (i.e. not too heavy on dialogue/sound effects!)

c) legal

If your work includes age play, please include relevant notes/a heads-up when you send over and make it clear that people in your stories are over 18. I’m definitely up for publishing this content, and very grateful to you for filling a gap in consensual kink topics that I cannot fill myself – I just prefer to know before I click rather than have it sprung on me by surprise. What’s more, if it isn’t clear from the text that the people in the story are over 18, I cannot publish it. I’ve been accused of kink-shaming for having this boundary in the past, so I want to make it clear that I am not shaming you for your consensual kinks here – as I say, I’m extremely grateful to you for sharing work on topics I can’t cover myself! I’m just trying to navigate this aspect of my job within my own boundaries and what’s legal.

I’m interested in both true sex stories and erotic fiction, and for this round I’d be especially interested to hear from men (this includes trans men, obvs) and people who have not yet submitted to the site. Although accessibility is the core goal, I am also always keen to boost new writers and welcome them aboard the fun filth train.

To get an idea of the kind of stories I love to publish, check out the guest audio on the site, or see this post on the top guest audio from the last round.

What’s in it for you?

I will pay you £15 per story for a license to adapt/use them. You will also receive residual payments if you opt in to having your work sub-licensed elsewhere.

I will record or have your stories recorded by a voice actor. For this round, I have a few voice artists who I know can do an amazing job of reading, and who have access to a proper studio/good equipment to produce your work in the best possible quality. So if you’ve thought about submitting in the past but worried that you don’t have the voice/equipment/confidence to read your own work – now’s your time! You do not need to read your own pieces – these ones will all be done for you. You just sit back and wait to hear the finished results!

I will edit and produce the finished audio, and publish it here on my own site where audio porn receives over 170,000 listens each month. You’ll also have a dedicated author page on this site which will include links to your own blog and any other relevant projects you’d like me to link to.

I’ll give you an embed code to add the audio to your own website, which gives you rich in-page content that should delight your readers, make your website more accessible, and give you search benefit. You can see an example here on Tabitha Rayne’s gorgeous story ‘The Scribe’. I cannot stress enough how important this is to the project – it’s not just about getting sexy erotica for me to publish here, it’s about making other sites more accessible to people using screenreaders too.

I will promote your work further. As well as shouting about you on this website, you’ll also have the option to have your work featured/sub-licensed elsewhere. Where these things earn money, you’ll get a cut of it, and where these things do not earn money, you will be linked and credited to boost your site traffic. You can opt in/out of this depending on what you fancy, I’ll send you details if your work is picked so you can have a bit more info on what this part entails.

Interested? Here’s what to do

Copy/paste the following questions into an email and send, along with your answers to hellogirlonthenet [at] gmail [dotcom] before Wednesday 1st June.

• Blog name/url: 
• Your bio (around 200ish words), including your pronouns and what you’re hoping to get from the audio project.
• Links to 5 posts/stories that you would like me to turn into audio porn. If there are specific types of voice you believe are necessary to your work (i.e. if you only want them read by masc voices, or if you think a specific accent is required – usually people do not have preferences here but if you have any do let me know). A couple of people have asked if they have to submit the full 5 – ideally you’d submit 5 stories, because there’s a lot of paperwork and admin to do to make sure I’m licensing your work legally and paying you fairly, so I’m afraid I can’t accept just a single story. Let’s say minimum of 3 though, if you don’t think you have 5 that are suitable.

Right now I’m looking for 5 erotic writers for the next round of recording, as I have (very) limited budget so I cannot guarantee say ‘yes’ to everyone I’m afraid, but I will aim to get back to everyone who contacts me by Wednesday 15th June, and if it’s not possible to license your work this time there will definitely be more opportunities in future. If you’re looking to read your own work, please do not submit this time, but subscribe for updates on future rounds as the next round will be more focused on writers who want to read too.

Next steps

If your work is selected, I’ll drop you an email with a licensing agreement and overview of what it all entails, then ask you to sign and invoice me if you’re happy with everything. You’ll get an agreement which lays out the terms, for which you can opt in/out of how you’d like your work used. Check out the post I wrote for The Smutlancer about putting together consensual licensing agreements if you’re interested in the nerdy detail of this – big thanks to Neil Brown of decoded:legal who has helped to create a clear outline for it, and made the expansion of the audio porn project possible.

When that’s done, I’ll get started on turning your work into lovely, sexy, accessible audio porn. The audio will be sent to you when it’s ready so you have a copy for yourself, then it will be added to the publication schedule ready to go on the site. All audio goes up on my Patreon first, because those lovely fuckers are the ones who make this project possible, then a few days later it’ll go live on the site and I will send you a link and embed code so you can add to your own website too.

Any questions?

If you have any questions about this – the process or the practicalities – please feel free to drop a comment below. It’s easier if you comment rather than tweet or email, because then the answer is there for others to see if they have the same question!