Looking for publisher for my erotic novel

[Buzzboy]

For those who are not familiar with my work, I'm planning to have "Orpheus's Fallen Angel" to be published into an actual novel. For that, I need to find a publisher.

I'm open to suggestions.

 

[tishadomina]

You might have to go the self-publishing route first, to prove that there actually is an audience for your work, before beginning to approach publishing houses.

 

[redzinger]

You may not even want a publisher. Tbh, if you're semi-competent on a computer, you could probably do everything except the editing yourself.

 

[R. Richard]

Checkout Amazon and Smashwords, to self publish.

 

[sr71plt]

Go to erotica distribution sites (Amazon, Smashwords, Allromanceebooks.com) and look for books like the one you want to publish. Publishers will be listed. Most of the ones you'll find as self-published, but chances are good that you'll find some erotica publishers listed too. Check out and follow their submissions policies on their Web sites.

 

[FantasyXY]

You might try Wikipedia. It seems to me there was a list of erotic book publishers there.

 

[MagicaPractica]

http://www.eroticromancepublishers.com/p/publishers.html

 

[Buzzboy]

Good advice, now how do I found an agent?

 

[R. Richard]

Good advice, now how do I found an agent?

Good luck with that. I have some 216 stories published for pay and no agent is interested in me.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

If self publish print is what you are looking for...try Createspace. Although I found to even break close to even, you have to price you book so high no one would purchase it. Try $15 USD for an ebook that sells for $4.50 USD.

 

[sr71plt]

Having gone through the era of really expensive bulk run and POD service printing paperback costs, I find CreateSpace very reasonable, even when I have a publisher in the picture (who has covered all of the up front production costs and done everything but write the work). I have a 62,000-word book in print now. The per-unit cost to my publisher on CreateSpace preorder is $3.85. The publisher will take an additional $4.00 (having covered all costs, including the cover, editing, setup, distribution, and sales), and the book will retail for $11.95. That's still a profit of $4.10 to me, which is far better than I've ever gotten per unit royalties from a mainstream publisher.

On an agent, if this is erotica, don't count on finding an agent.

 

[lovecraft68]

Having gone through the era of really expensive bulk run and POD service printing paperback costs, I find CreateSpace very reasonable, even when I have a publisher in the picture (who has covered all of the up front production costs and done everything but write the work). I have a 62,000-word book in print now. The per-unit cost to my publisher on CreateSpace preorder is $3.85. The publisher will take an additional $4.00 (having covered all costs, including the cover, editing, setup, distribution, and sales), and the book will retail for $11.95. That's still a profit of $4.10 to me, which is far better than I've ever gotten per unit royalties from a mainstream publisher.

On an agent, if this is erotica, don't count on finding an agent.

But $11.95 is expensive for a 62k book that is most likely 200 pages or less in PB form depending on font etc....

You can buy a full length paperback by a popular author for $9.95 which is the downfall of the POD deal.

Except if you have a way to sell them yourself and be able to charge whatever you want and not worry about others cuts.

 

[sr71plt]

But $11.95 is expensive for a 62k book that is most likely 200 pages or less in PB form depending on font etc....

You can buy a full length paperback by a popular author for $9.95 which is the downfall of the POD deal.

Except if you have a way to sell them yourself and be able to charge whatever you want and not worry about others cuts.

It's not expensive historically. Before CreateSpace, you had to pay something in the neighborhood of $1,600 up front for a POD service and a book that size wouldn't retail for under $18.00. In those terms, CreateSpace is a bargain. Mainstream publisher books are in another realm and probably always will be.

If you think you're going to compete with mainstream best-sellers you start out with a screw loose. But then if a reader/buyer is searching for an erotica paperback, it doesn't mean a damn thing to them that they can get a mainstream best-seller for less. That's not what they're shopping for.

 

[lovecraft68]

It's not expensive historically. Before CreateSpace, you had to pay something in the neighborhood of $1,600 up front for a POD service and a book that size wouldn't retail for under $18.00. In those terms, CreateSpace is a bargain. Mainstream publisher books are in another realm and probably always will be.

If you think you're going to compete with mainstream best-sellers you start out with a screw loose.

I have several loose screws, but not about this. I'm not looking to compete with the 'real' market. Its pretty impossible especially with Amazon's squeeze the indy off amazon crusade that's been going on last couple of years.

My only point is even though CS is a cheaper option that what was previously out there, you still have to charge more than what a mainstream published book goes for and although 40k is said to eb a novel in e-form, when people are buying paperbacks they want what they consider full length and that's more than an 80k indy book.

Self published paperbacks-and anuthing done through CS is self published even if you have someone do it for you as in CS is not a real publisher.

Are known as vanity prints and that is pretty much what they are. Historically they do not sell much because of the formula of high price low page count and the bad rep indy authors have for being low quality(whether they are or not that is the myth the big six and others push) is not a winning one.

 

[sr71plt]

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My only point is even though CS is a cheaper option that what was previously out there, you still have to charge more than what a mainstream published book goes for and although 40k is said to eb a novel in e-form, when people are buying paperbacks they want what they consider full length and that's more than an 80k indy book.

I added to my post that these are different markets. If you are in the market for an erotica paperback, your price comparisons are other erotica paperbacks, not mainstream best-sellers. It doesn't matter a bit to a erotica buyer what mainstream best-sellers are going for. If you are in the market for glossy architecture coffee table book, you're going to pay a hell of a lot more than for a mainstream best-seller paperback, but that doesn't matter to you. You are in the market for the coffee table book, not the best-seller novel.

And I repeat that my post was pointing out that CreateSpace is significantly less costly than the options that went before it. If you want something better at the moment, just don't publish--wait and hope that something better is coming along.

 

[R. Richard]

From what I have seen, self publishing a hard copy book is a money losing proposition. Publishing a hard copy book is a job for a major publisher. JMHO.

 

[sr71plt]

Well, yes, but was anyone talking about publishing above e-book or paperback? I guess it's good to pin that down with the OP, though.

 

[TxRad]

From what I have seen, self publishing a hard copy book is a money losing proposition. Publishing a hard copy book is a job for a major publisher. JMHO.

Not really, if it's done right.

I've been doing it for the last five years with excellent profits.

 

[sr71plt]

OK, maybe I was confused. I was thinking RR was referring to "hard cover." If hard copy, that would include paperbacks and, yes, about everything of mine that's long enough to paperback has been and sells fine in terms of the erotica market.

 

[Buzzboy]

Bump:d

 

[redzinger]

Bump:d

You think publishers are hanging around on here?

 

[Thematterisclosed]

eXcessica do print runs if you are accepted into the cooperative. They were accepting new authors this summer. There are a few erotic publishers you can publish through if you google and/or search the threads here by typing publishing. That's how I got my ebooks published, but asking for names here (no novels, but a 35K novella). You do have to submit a sample of your work but that shouldn't be a problem for you.

I tried the self-publishing route on Amazon beforehand but it fell flat. The energy that goes into self-promotion takes away all the writing time I think. A publisher works quite well as a community as well.