January 29, 20197 yr Popular Post At a friend's challenge, I wrote a 'gay erotic novella' in December. I had been enjoying written porn more than visual porn recently, and thought it might be a lark to figure out how this whole self-publishing thing works out on Amazon. Turns out, these guys have the process pretty wired (what a surprise). In keeping with the genre, most things happen as an excuse to fuck. I will shamelessly self-promote here in the hopes that I can eventually sell enough copies to pay back the $12 that the cover photo license cost me. If this kind of thing amuses you, check it out. Even if it doesn't, please lie and say it's awesome. The Team Comes First on Amazon
January 30, 20197 yr The gimmick for success there is that you have to set up & then write into innumerable Amazon-borne blogs etc etc to get attention for your title. You have to do a shit-ton of various forms of self-promo (which they tell you about, all over their site) to drive interest and sales. Not a bad model. Just you have to promote your title relentlessly through all the avenues they give you for it to sell.
January 30, 20197 yr Author Ha. Yeah, my partner writes really stupid romance. That's niche. This is even more niche. I understand to try to turn this into something you'd have to promote like crazy. Not sure it's even possible to promote enough to make this worthwhile. But if I could figure it out, maybe I could help my partner do the romance. That's farmed out to somebody else today.
January 30, 20197 yr Active Members 9 hours ago, caeron said: But if I could figure it out, maybe I could help my partner do the romance. That's farmed out to somebody else today. Numazu?
January 30, 20197 yr Active Members I bought the 133 page novel for my Kindle. I'll get back to you on it!
January 30, 20197 yr Author No, partner got sucked into it by the brother of a friend. Writes 'shifter romance' which seems to be the current hotness. werewolves, werebears and weredragons all needs their womenfolk to be making the werebabies. Turns out there is something of a market for that. Who knew? But my partner does most of the work, and gets a poor share of the return. If I could do the marketing, that could change.
January 31, 20197 yr Author In the unlikely event I choose to write a sequel, I will definitely have to pay more attention to the science of non verbal communication in the locker room. Edited January 31, 20197 yr by caeron
February 7, 20197 yr Active Members I am about half-way through this erotic novel. The quarterback has taken the young football player's cherry. It was a hot scene. But, now I have to clean my screen! Again!
February 10, 20197 yr Active Members On 2/7/2019 at 3:06 PM, caeron said: Haha! Thanks for the kind words. At 99 cents, it was well worth the read! Bang for the buck, so to speak.
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