How to Really Self-Publish Erotica: The Truth About Kinks, Covers, Advertising and More!
Dalia Daudelin
Language: English
Pages: 110
ISBN: 1492284092
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
- What are the best stock photos?
- How big should a cover be?
- Where should the font go?
- How and where do I advertise my stories?
- What should my stories even be about?
How often have you heard, "Nobody makes money from self-publishing"? It's coming from the mouths of authors, agents, publishers and editors out of ignorance... or malice.
If you're looking to jump-start your career in writing, though, self-publishing can be an absolute Godsend if you're just an average person. The problem is, the information you need is scattered all over the internet. And frankly, the money is best in erotica, and money is ultimately the bottom line between you and writing full-time.
Not only do you need to know how to write well, you also need to know graphic design. You have to be well versed in the kinks you want to write, too.
- What readers will want when they pick up a billionaire story?
- What kind of kinks go well with werewolf or vampire stories?
This book is a short, but basically complete, introduction to the field of self-publishing erotica--though other writers may find some things of value, as well. Do you love writing? Are you scared of spending months on a novel only to not have it sell? Erotic shorts are the perfect place to start.
When you're ready to make a change and really jump head first into the vast ocean of self-publishing, make sure you're carrying this book as your lifesaver!
Fetish targeting allows the writer and the reader to communicate in shorthand about what is going to be occurring in the story. A (pseudo-)incest story is going to be romantic, in some sense, about exploring sexual boundaries. I don’t need to tag it as “romance” or “first time,” most of the time, because those things are part of the much bigger package of “incest.” On the other hand, if you had a story about cuckolding, having a virginal female is highly unusual. You’d absolutely have to tag it
bestsellers here, we don’t want to write off tension as a storytelling tool. In fact, realistically, that’s how sexual pleasure works, too. Sexual enjoyment is all about building up tension and then releasing it (or, in some circles, not releasing it, but that’s neither here nor there). To bring the discussion back to erotica into focus, consider my story Stepdaddy, Send Me to Paris. Sissy is the pen name I use for pseudo-incest. The central fetish is actually closer to Billionaire stories,
distant, but bridge that gap through sexuality is equally fitting for the genre. Billionaire Billionaire stories are a relatively new fetish, in that like so many of the others, this has a long-standing basis but we can pinpoint specifically when it became a big seller: It became a big seller in the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey. There’s not much else to it. In its purest form you want to deliver the same kind of sex that Fifty Shades delivered. However, a similar power dynamic works about as
that they have a history together. It’s implied by their sibling relationship. At the same time, at its purest, this is a pairing that works at a youngish age, around the time that people start experimenting with their sexuality, between 14 and 17. Those people are strictly, 100% off limits to write about as a pornographer who wants to sell their material. That’s absolutely illegal; nobody will allow you to sell that material. Most places that will even allow you to post it on their servers
a category, Romance > Lesbian Romance (that is to say, ‘Lesbian Romance’ in ‘Romance’) that you cannot select on your own. Instead, you can add “Lesbian” as a keyword, and then choose any other Romance sub-category, and your work will automatically show up in Lesbian Romance as well. A word of caution about categories; if you choose the Erotica category, then any other category you choose will be ignored. So there is an advantage in not putting your story in the Erotica category. Amazon pays