What Happened to Ruthie's Club?

Ruthie died, and Neil Anthony and Dulcie and Fr. Nat kept it going as long as possible, but the costs went up, and the subs went down, and they all had real life jobs. They wanted to pay writers and artists.

I got a note from them before they shut down, telling contributors to the site that they were going on hiatus, hoping to reopen, but it didn't seem likely.

It's a real shame. They were lovely to work with, always paid on time, took the editing seriously and always offered a bit of praise to the writers (and presumably the visual artists too).

It was a great bunch of people, it really was.

I'll pass that on. They really were serious about supporting writers and artists.

Please do. I never subbed to them, but they were well-liked in the business. A pity.

Does anyone know how to contact Neil Anthony these days? I'd like to request his permission in using a quote of his as a blurb. Neil and the whole Ruthie's Club crew were awesome. I miss them!

That was the first online place I hung out where writing erotica felt totally normal. I miss them.

At risk of saying 'me, too', well - me, too. Ruthie's Club, and some of the erotic lit usenet groups of the early nineties, really helped me suss out the genre in positive ways.