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[ChloeTzang]

But, but, this guy is offering exposure! It’s so vital because us authors have no access to social media ourselves.....

Exposure is a myth. About the only time it works is when you're lucky enough to buddy up with someone with a lot of followers online who buy books and they promote you....and at that, it has to be someone who writes in the same genre as you or it means little or nothing. I saw Larry Correia do this a few years ago for a budding author and the exposure got the guy off to a flying start - I read the newbie's book myself and it was good military sci-fi that I enjoyed. Have an erotica author like Selena Kitt promote you might help too - she has a service that you can pay for that will do that - but as for someone poppimng up on the AH and saying they'll promote you on social media for a bit of exposure, nah, sorry to inject some reality into the veins of the OP, but that really means nothing.

It's a tough life making a living as an author. LOL. It's even tougher trying to get someone else to write what you want to read LOL. And THAT is one reason I started writing.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Exposure is a myth. About the only time it works is when you're lucky enough to buddy up with someone with a lot of followers online who buy books and they promote you....and at that, it has to be someone who writes in the same genre as you or it means little or nothing. I saw Larry Correia do this a few years ago for a budding author and the exposure got the guy off to a flying start - I read the newbie's book myself and it was good military sci-fi that I enjoyed. Have an erotica author like Selena Kitt promote you might help too - she has a service that you can pay for that will do that - but as for someone poppimng up on the AH and saying they'll promote you on social media for a bit of exposure, nah, sorry to inject some reality into the veins of the OP, but that really means nothing.

It's a tough life making a living as an author. LOL. It's even tougher trying to get someone else to write what you want to read LOL. And THAT is one reason I started writing.

If I have no clue who you are, you are definitely not in a position to provide me "exposure" that will help.

 

[ChloeTzang]

If I have no clue who you are, you are definitely not in a position to provide me "exposure" that will help.

Exactly. Now if Marcus van Heller came back from the dead and offered to promote me, I'd bite. LOL (sorry, I was just reading "Lusts of the Borgias," a truly impressive piece of erotica. Or Marguerite Dumas or Selena Kitt. Or what's her name that wrote 50 Shades of Bad BDSM that I'm jealous of because I would like to make gazillions too - but that's all name recognition.

Now before I got kicked off Facebook and banned forever more by the minions of the jerk, I had about 1000 friends and followers and if I plugged something, the plug was good for maybe 100 sales. And that was MY OWN followers who really like my happy little tales of lust, mayhem and explicit sex - someone else plugging my stuff to THEIR followers might be good for 1 in a 100 - so someone with a million followers might, by plugging one of my stories, sell me 10000 copies (a true miracle - more likely it would be 100 LOL) - and given how long it takes to write a full length novel (because I don't to cheap shit novellas and price them as novels) 10k sales would be maybe half what I make working at my real job if I was lucky. It's just not worth writing stuff for someone else unless they pay me heaps and heaps and heaps, and it's cash up front too - becaise that time would be time I would far rather spend writing my own stories that won't sell many copies of because I don't have the name recognition of EE James LOL.

So if the OP is actually reading this thread, sorry dude, you're out of luck. I'll suggest the same thing I suggest to almost everyne else who asks that same question (and you are not alone). If you really want it. START WRITING. It will be bad. LIkely it will be awful. But write it anyway because that's how you learn. Then write the next, and the next, and the next, and after you've written maybe a million words and study writing as you go, you will start to be okay. After the second million words, you will be better. Readers may even enjoy your stories, and you will be happy writing out those ideas you have, the way you want them to read.....

Good luck. That's what I did

 

[KittyOfSteele]

So if the OP is actually reading this thread, sorry dude, you're out of luck. I'll suggest the same thing I suggest to almost everyne else who asks that same question (and you are not alone). If you really want it. START WRITING. It will be bad. LIkely it will be awful. But write it anyway because that's how you learn. Then write the next, and the next, and the next, and after you've written maybe a million words and study writing as you go, you will start to be okay. After the second million words, you will be better. Readers may even enjoy your stories, and you will be happy writing out those ideas you have, the way you want them to read.....

Good luck. That's what I did

Today I read an interview with worldbuilder Ed Greenwood for Campfire Writing that showed how he got started into writing by, essentially, making fan-fiction and studying the other authors, like many artists do when they sit down to draw.

I started writing at age five. I was a lonely kid, my mother was dying, and I was about to embark on being raised by a succession of grandmas and maiden aunts, and all of the books and pulp magazines in my father’s den were my refuge. I’d often run upstairs to my Dad and excitedly ask him where the next story about these characters was—and all too often, his reply would be along the lines of: “Son, if you want any more stories about those folks, you’ll have to write them yourself. That writer’s been dead for thirty years.” So I’d rush back downstairs and eagerly plunge into writing sequels—horrible, usually unfinished pastiches, but I was learning to write by copying the styles and approaches of other writers, some of them brilliant writers like Lord Dunsany, P.G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack Vance. Captivating fantastic places inspired me, thrilling adventure stories, and magic. They still do. I always want to know what happens next, and as I’ve gone on writing, the ways of storytelling (plot? What IS a plot, anyway?) have fascinated me, and I’ve tried many different approaches and am still learning and trying. That, and the love readers have for some of my creations, are what keeps it fresh for me and keeps me going.

The whole interview is quite motivating. If a five-year-old could do high fantasy, anyone here can write erotica.

Just don't plagiarize. Study, but don't plagiarize.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Today I read an interview with worldbuilder Ed Greenwood for Campfire Writing that showed how he got started into writing by, essentially, making fan-fiction and studying the other authors, like many artists do when they sit down to draw.

The whole interview is quite motivating. If a five-year-old could do high fantasy, anyone here can write erotica.

Just don't plagiarize. Study, but don't plagiarize.

That's great advice - and I think it was John Ringo said much the same - his advice was take a writer you really like, copy a scene or a chapter of theirs - and then rewrite it in your own words as a great way to learn. I did that a lot when I was writing as a teenager.