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The latest in our series of comparison articles has just been published: Royal Road vs. Litopia I hope you find it informative; not just in evaluating Royal Road and its appropriate uses, but also in understanding what the Author Platform® really is and how it can work effectively with other...

I’ve just made a blog post about an update to our Terms and Conditions. Hopefully, the post is self-explanatory, but do ask any questions below. :) p.

I’m delighted to tell you that Litopia Gift Tokens are back… and they’re better and more flexible than ever. You can buy a token in amounts from $25 upwards Members or non-members can buy them Platform Plus+ members or free members can receive them (non-members can receive them too, all they...

And following my earlier post about the exact date of Litopia’s founding (the name & website were registered in 1999, the Colony got going in 2005) here’s the resulting piece that occasioned the research: https://litopia.com/about/ I’d really appreciate any suggestions / additions, this page...

I’m currently writing a page for the Author Platform (it’s still in beta, folks) about the growth of Litopia and where we stand when compared to other websites that give you the hard-sell for expensive writing courses. Researching our evolution, I realize that I need to correct something. I’ve...

Apologies, everyone, but the current Litopia home page (litopia.com) is borked :) We’re currently working on the final version of the home page in preparation for moving out of beta (you can’t see it yet). This has involved changing some of the design specifications to many of the home page...

You might be interested in some stats regarding the number of visitors to Litopia.com (your new author platform :) ) Cloudflare, the company that provides us with some security services, keeps logs of “unique visitors”, i.e. a calculation of the number of real people who visit every day. This...

Access to the Litopia seminars seem to have got buried somewhere. I seem to remember they were part of a drop-down list either in the Colony or on Litopia.com? I found the list by going through the Colony to My Account, but there's an error message when I click on any seminars. Not sure if it's...

It’s fun, it’s mildly eccentric, and it’s all yours… unless you attended last year’s final Huddle, in which case, you may recognize some of the questions :) Boast about your score achievements here. I’m sure you’ll be honest :)

Litopia needs to grow. We were the world’s first online community for writers, and for over two decades we’ve served our members pretty well. Innovation has always been in our DNA. We were the first to experiment with podcasting: you can chuckle to a selection of our early shows here...

It will be good to watch how this new platform works as it comes from the same impulse of writers to find their own venues away from trad publishing and amazon. https://www.facebook.com/groups/subscriptionsforauthors

…For Litopia’s forthcoming Author Platform, as debuted in yesterday’s Huddle. Please put your name down below and you’ll be granted (a) full access to the beta-version of the Author Platform; and (b) access to the Colony’s private Beta-Testers forum for your bug reports and suggestions. Thank...

Since returning to Litopia after a 20-year break, I have had a really positive experience. Everyone here is so nice and supportive. I have really enjoyed the Lab, and hope to post more. Mark

The UK’s The Online Safety Act has now come into force and has some implications for Litopia. In summary, the OSA requires services which handle user-generated content to: Have baseline content moderation practices Use those moderation practices to take down reported content that violates UK...

Over the years, Litopia has amassed 38,000 followers on Twitter, so turning our back on them is hard. However – how many of those people are still there, in fact – and actually active? I don’t know. What I do know is that place is the embodiment of that unpleasant term for an even more...

New blog post by AgentPete Book Club Programme & Dates for the Year Litopia’s Book Club, run by @Jason, is an unmissable monthly event. There are – happily – lots of book clubs around. But none like ours. Quite simply, it’s a club run by writers for writers – so the perspective is altogether...

@Jonny I'm having trouble understanding two things. Until now, I'm not a paying member. I don't mind becoming a paying member but trying to weigh what the advantages are. 1) I'm having trouble figuring out how to access the Discord server. I found an instruction document, but I don't even...

This year’s Xmas Writers' Huddle was one of the best on record (our regular Saturday Huddles are pedal-to-the-metal intense – we need to kick back once a year and have some fun). We thought those Litopians who could not attend might like to share one of the word games we played… The Ant Game...

Hi everyone! I put a feeler post out about this earlier in the month, and now it's officially happening! Here's how it'll work (for anyone who has done Writing Accountability Buddies, you may notice some similarities ;)) 1. Comment below to say you're want to join the event. 2. Tell us a bit...

As you may know, the Colony mostly runs pretty smoothly; with little or none of the rancour, abuse and sometimes sheer hatred that sours much of the rest of the web. One of the reasons for this is the indefatigable, yet mostly invisible, work of the Guardians. We’ve been very fortunate in...