Questions on Publishing

[Nameless_Rose]

Hello Lit Authors! I need some advice from those experienced in the world of e-publishing. I am considering editing and expanding my first time story, "The Deflorist," into either a novel or a novella. I would then like to try to sell this book to an e-publisher like excessica or ellora's cave, but I have a few questions that I hope some of you more experienced Lit authors will be able to help me answer.

Here they are:

-How do publishers feel about you trying to sell them something that is similar to something that is already up for free on Literotica? Will they ask me to take the story down? I really don't want to do that because people seem to like it and I know I would hate it if one of my favorite stories suddenly disappeared.

-What e-publishers would you recommend for an aspiring author? My favorites that I've seen so far are Ellora's Cave, Loose ID, and Liquid Silver.

-Are there publishers who are familiar with Literotica.com who would be more likely to publish my work if they find I've had a decent amount of success on here?

 

[sr71plt]

All of my stories on Lit. are also out there available--and selling--as part of an e-book anthology or in an expansion from a story on Lit. (not all of my e-books are available on Lit., however). I've had no trouble either getting the e-books published without having to pull stories off Lit.--or in selling the e-books.

I've gone now, though, to publishing first and not posting the story to Lit. for about a year after the e-book anthology it's in launches.

Doubt anyone can give you publisher comparisons without reading what you have--and then they probably don't want to spend the time doing for you what you can do for yourself. Go look at blurbs of works similar to yours published by the various publishers and compare how their books are ranking on e-book distributor sites. That should help you narrow down what publishers are better for you.

Concerning your last question, eXcessica is a publisher that flowed out of Literotica and has a large number of Literotica authors on its list. It's successful enough that it has a long wait to publish now. I have a "to-launch" list (of more than one book a month) with that publisher going into the fall of 2011--and I haven't submitted there for a couple of months now.

E-publishers aren't going to "buy" your manuscript. They are going to publish (without charge to you--which is a better deal than self-publishing) and then give you a percentage of what sold--with a good three-month delay in payoff (because that's the distribution sites' payoff schedule).