Authors, you are advised to NOT include an external link or your account profile from other sites in your stories. First, it's against the TOS. Second, as a simple form of respect to this site. Third, to make your story content clean and focus on the story itself, and not on some promotion or Ad.

There is a field box "Websites/URLs" in your account profile, that is the only place where you are allowed to enter and promote any external links (ie: FB, twitter...