Has anyone ever gotten a publishing contacted through uploading a story here?

[T_Blackmoor]

I’m not under any delusions of grandeur mind you, and I don’t expect agents or publishers to come banging on my door anytime soon. But I was genuinely curious:
Has anyone here actually gotten a traditional publishing deal from uploading stories to Literotica?

I’m not talking about self-publishing on Amazon, but a real contract from a publisher who found their work here, something like what happened with Fifty Shades of Grey some years ago.

 

[Omenainen]

I didn’t think that was what happened with Fifty Shades of BDSM Misrepresentation?

I have the impression that people do get approached but it’s usually a scam, something along the lines of “oh we love your work, and would love to promote it for this small upfront fee.”

 

[lovecraft68]

TX Rad (RIP) received a contract for a trilogy and when it was finished was signed on for 9 more books. The genre would make people laugh but he did pretty well with the deal.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

I have the impression that people do get approached but it’s usually a scam, something along the lines of “oh we love your work, and would love to promote it for this small upfront fee.”

I received one somewhat similar to that for one of my stories several years ago. It was presented as an "on-line publishing" agreement but it sounded as shady as an oak tree so I deleted the invite without responding, somewhat similar to all of the "I absolutely adored your story and would love to develop a cover page for it!" (if you'll pay me, of course.)

 

[Belegon]

There are certainly scammers everywhere on the internet, but there have been some Litsters who rode the wave to "real" publishing... I myself was recruited into that world by another Litster and my first published work (through the now gone Phaze Books) was a short story that I co-wrote with her because she desired a male POV on the subject. She had been "discovered" here and had published a couple pieces already and the publisher had asked her to do a sequel, which is how I got involved.

So I wasn't exactly "sought out" or "contacted by a publisher due to my Literotica posting, but I never would have been published if I hadn't been posting stories and poetry here.

One of my early mentors here at the site is now an editor fro Forbes magazine. So there are some success stories. But my impression is that most of us who hqve breached that wall have used Lit more as a training ground than a display board. I wouldn't count on getting discovered, and I am having to releqarn the landscape because the market for erotica has changed dramatically from when I was writing for profit the most, around 2007-2012. All of the electronic publishers I worked with at that time are now gone. Even Ellora's Cave seems to be gone and they were the biggest gorilla in the room back in 2009. everybnody I ever had a contract with seems to be gone, with the sole exception of Excessica. (which was started by a Litster.)

 

[Voboy]

Yes.

 

[OddLove]

I don't know if that happens on here, but there's nothing wrong with fantasizing about making it BIG. I've been planning the design of my pirate ship for like ten years now, I might never be able to get it, but if I do, I know I'm going to have barrels of Kraken on it, and a living quarters for my sushi chef.