Erotica Writers Resource Thread

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I'm sure I could also help out, I got some extensive sexperience (little extreme stuff though, and less romance). So if it's about the wammin and slammin, everyone's welcome to ask :)


Hi, I usually write fantasy...but have been moving more and more into erotic shorts for freinds. Could you trake a look before i start looking to sell to mags and e-zines? Just because my freinds love them, is not always a good heat gauge.
feel free to email me..
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A lot of helpful information in this thread. Great posts!
 

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Hi, im a newbie. i really am pleased ive found this site! i need help!

I have a thesaurus, which i got from the internet, but wondered if theres more? i have an issue with using the same words and really would like to try to change.

Oh, i forgot to say. i write fanfiction. at the moment im doing Deanerys & Drogo from game of thrones, i am not a 'writer', i just like to put smut on paper! lol
 

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I'll be sure to drop back here when I am looking to get back into writing E-lits. Right now I need to find a place to host my works. I let most of my stuff into the net for free since for the moment writing is more of a hobby but that does not mean I would not like to crank out a few for profit at some point. (General that is.)
 

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This was extremely helpful. I've spent a great deal of time trying to create a time line for some of my bigger works and this was a great template to look at.
 

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Please include Leodegraunce in the list of places to send erotica. We are a paying flash fiction site, and I am the editor-in-chief. Since I'm an erotica writer, I also accept erotic flash fiction as long as it follows my guidelines.

Leodegraunce
 

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That's why you double-check any publisher or agent you find on any list, against current information.

I was saying that because I thought a moderator or someone would want to know. As far as I know, when a publisher closes their name is greyed-out from the list on here. I was saying just in case one of the moderators here wanted to do that. Nothing more, nothing less really. Now, that can be done only in other forums on here; if it is, I apologize.
 

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I'm new to this site and it's good to see it is full of really good advice. Thanks Synonym for your list. And to the others for the list of potential publishers.
 

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Welcome to you, Thing.

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My sister writes erotica and published a thesaurus of words she got sick of looking up- I use it for sex/love scenes in my own contemporary fiction, works great for me.
TheSEXaurus: Sexy Words for Writers
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Publishers List Changes

Sorry for posting this incorrect information.
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The majority of the publishers you've listed DO have active sites. It might be worth Googling them before pronouncing them dead. The links to their submissions pages may have changed.

Liquid Silver is here:
http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/

Dreamspinner is here:
http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/

Eternal Press is here:
http://www.eternalpress.biz/

NBM is here:
http://www.nbmpub.com/

Phaze books is here:
http://www.phaze.com/

Pink Flamingo:
http://www.pinkflamingo.com/

Pink Petal became Jupiter Gardens:
http://jupitergardenspress.com/

Red Rose:
http://redrosepublishing.com/books/

Red Sage:
http://www.redsagepub.com/

The Wild Rose:
http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/maincatalog_v151/

Torquere:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/
 

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This is relevant to the discussion, since EP is listed on the first post as a publisher of erotica.

I do not recommend Eirelander Publishing. I've had personal experience with them under a different pen name, back in 2010 - 2011.

At first everything was fine. I did a few levels of editing, the first level was for a "redundancy check" IIRC. After it was finished, I never heard from them again until a year later. Seriously. And my ebook was due to be released about six months before that.

While the previous editor was good and knew a lot of stuff, she did make a couple of mistakes with grammar; unless that was the epub's particular "house" style.

When the new editor (and owner of EP) finally got hold of me, she rushed out the ebook not long afterward, complete with horrible cover (I make better covers than that within fifteen minutes). When I read the inside content, it looked like she'd published the unedited and unrevised version, because I distinctly remember the edited version read so much better than this one.

Anyhow, I made a total of - $20 royalty over the lifetime of the ebook. Could've been because of the bad cover. Could've been because of the poor editing/writing.

I only know that the ebook sold about 24 copies at first, for a 5,000 word story, overpriced @ $4.99. Royalties? A grand spanking total of $12. If I'd just done it myself and sold the same ebook on Kindle at that price, I could've made around $42. However, I'm glad to have made the owner a little richer. *sarcasm* Not that I'm really bitter about it; I'm just glad I learned a lesson. Now I'm smarter, more wary and a lot less naive.

To compare, for my first self-published ebook--for .99--under a new pen name, I've made $122 + in the space of 7 weeks, for an ebook of the same length and genre, and have sold nearly 350 copies so far. And it took 4 days to write/edit/revise/format and publish, instead of a year (normally it does take me longer to write/edit/revise; I was esp. efficient at the time I pubbed this ebook). I also plan to release another 3 ebooks within 3 months (1 novel, 1 novella and 1 novelette; all finished but need polished).

So glad I'd learned my lesson about bad publishers, that way I won't give any more of my books away---for free. I work too damn hard to receive virtual peanuts in return... just to make someone else more $$.

Furthermore, if I ever ran my own epublishing company, I'd never, ever gyp my writers in such a way. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing I pocketed at least $30 while one of my authors received $12 for something they'd written. It's pathetic IMHO. Not to mention spending a moment to create an embarrassingly bad cover (for free), then slapping it on the author's work. I'd never do that either. I'd ensure the author's book had a better cover than my own.

I do have a "start-up micro epub. company", BUT it's not live nor open for submissions (and it states as much on the 'Submissions' page), and possibly never will be live. I'd never go "live" until I knew for a fact I had a hired staff of industry professionals (truly pro editors, artists, etc.), and I knew what I was doing. I'd never jeopardize any author's First Rights of Publication just because I wanted to get richer and "play" the game of publisher.

So, again, currently I don't run my own pub. company because I do not know what the hell I'm doing. I just use the name for my ebooks, and have designed a site simply because it's the kind of thing I like to do.

I'm going to copy and paste this to the Eirelander thread on the BRBC section.

Again, this is only my opinion. My opinion based on my own experience with Eirelander. Your experience could be better, or you might have had a better experience with this publisher.

Personally, my experience was horrible. :rolleyes:
 
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Great info!

Thank you to everyone who took the time to post such great information. Very useful.