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Where to sell erotica stories?

slutindianwife said:
Where can one sell erotica stories?

Can anyone share?

Regards.:devil::devil:
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To reduce it to it's basics, pretty much the same way you sell anything written. You either find a publisher willing to publish you (hard, unless you really stand out in some way) or you self-publish. Either way you have to build your own readership and market your stories yourself because you won't get any marketing done for you other than maybe some minimal exposure on the publisher's website and via twitter and whatever other social media they use.

Or, you can find a website that's willing to pay for your stories but that'll generally be a one-off payment per story and they won't pay much. and good luck finding one, the ones that will pay are few and far between.

I had one website that paid for mine, they approached me, but unfortunately they folded (they were selling sex toys and it was fun, part of the challenge was to write stories around the sex toys they were selling without being to blatant about it). But there wasn't much money in it for the time involved in writing the stories.

There's a few people here who publish or have published, they can likely add to that.
 
ChloeTzang said:
To reduce it to it's basics, pretty much the same way you sell anything written. You either find a publisher willing to publish you (hard, unless you really stand out in some way) or you self-publish. Either way you have to build your own readership and market your stories yourself because you won't get any marketing done for you other than maybe some minimal exposure on the publisher's website and via twitter and whatever other social media they use.

Or, you can find a website that's willing to pay for your stories but that'll generally be a one-off payment per story and they won't pay much. and good luck finding one, the ones that will pay are few and far between.

I had one website that paid for mine, they approached me, but unfortunately they folded (they were selling sex toys and it was fun, part of the challenge was to write stories around the sex toys they were selling without being to blatant about it). But there wasn't much money in it for the time involved in writing the stories.

There's a few people here who publish or have published, they can likely add to that.
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Thanks a lot, appreciate your insights.
Regards.
 
You could always print them as broadsides and hawk them from a streetcorner. Set up as a busker. Set your printed stories in a rack beside you on the sidewalk; stand with an open hat in front of you for donations; proclaim your stories aloud, dramatically. Try that in Times Square, Manhattan, or Union Square, San Francisco. You may need a bullhorn.
 
Hypoxia said:
You could always print them as broadsides and hawk them from a streetcorner. Set up as a busker. Set your printed stories in a rack beside you on the sidewalk; stand with an open hat in front of you for donations; proclaim your stories aloud, dramatically. Try that in Times Square, Manhattan, or Union Square, San Francisco. You may need a bullhorn.
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Thank you for your astounding reply.
Are you doing that right now?
 
Hypoxia said:
My remote mountain hamlet would not respond well to me performing in public. And I'm snowed-in now, anyway.
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Appears that you are not doing so good at it.
But then perhaps your so called ‘remote hamlet’ has lots of stones –
Where you could find shelter
And disappear into the stone ages!
 
slutindianwife said:
Appears that you are not doing so good at it.
But then perhaps your so called ‘remote hamlet’ has lots of stones –
Where you could find shelter
And disappear into the stone ages!
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In Hypoxia's case it would be more likely the stoned age. ;)
 
slutindianwife said:
Where can one sell erotica stories?

Can anyone share?

Regards.:devil::devil:
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Just about everyone I know is doing a Smashwords and Amazon combo.

It's easy to upload and design. It's hard to promote.

Honestly, I haven't figured out that part yet, but I guess that's why I'm here too.
 
Maeven_quinn said:
Just about everyone I know is doing a Smashwords and Amazon combo.

It's easy to upload and design. It's hard to promote.

Honestly, I haven't figured out that part yet, but I guess that's why I'm here too.
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Thanks for sharing.
Regards.
 
Writing for sales is WORK. A job. As Edison or someone said, 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Many markets exist for wordsmiths -- in PR and adverts, and magazines and media, and yes, in mainstream fiction. If feeding your family on payouts and royalties, you'll find a way to sell, or you'll starve and die. Don't quit your day job. If you've literary ambitions, write industriously. Find markets and write to fit them, i.e. pander.

I've written all sorts of shit over many decades. I was paid to write and edit technical stuff. I've been paid little for songwriting, and nothing for fiction or propaganda. Could I write smut for sale? Dunno, and I won't bother. That's work. I'm through with work. You want to work? Excellent!
 
Hypoxia said:
Writing for sales is WORK. A job. As Edison or someone said, 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Many markets exist for wordsmiths -- in PR and adverts, and magazines and media, and yes, in mainstream fiction. If feeding your family on payouts and royalties, you'll find a way to sell, or you'll starve and die. Don't quit your day job. If you've literary ambitions, write industriously. Find markets and write to fit them, i.e. pander.

I've written all sorts of shit over many decades. I was paid to write and edit technical stuff. I've been paid little for songwriting, and nothing for fiction or propaganda. Could I write smut for sale? Dunno, and I won't bother. That's work. I'm through with work. You want to work? Excellent!
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And now you write here – and you are unpaid.
Same ol’ thing as you were always doing!
Better you head for that stone age!
 
slutindianwife said:
And now you write here – and you are unpaid.
Same ol’ thing as you were always doing!
Better you head for that stone age!
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Dr Johnson said, "Only a fool writes, if not for money."
I admit to foolishness.
Rarely.
 
Hypoxia said:
Dr Johnson said, "Only a fool writes, if not for money."
I admit to foolishness.
Rarely.
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Then obviously Dr. Johnson Smonson, is one of the biggest fools…
As are all those who follow him!
But at least you admit to foolishness!
 
Combine the stories in themed anthologies and put them up on Amazon/Smashwords/B&N/etc. I'm told mine go on seven sales platforms. (I have a publisher doing all of this). My current avatar, for instance, is from an anthology of particularly intense (sexually) stories.


This is a running series, unthemed and billed as written in chronological order during a set period, with background given on the writing of the stories.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81UP-vBNlvL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg



These are specifically themed stories--all set in some form of lighthouse setting, but otherwise different:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71aRm8LdQ9L.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg


This is a humongous collection of stories (over 80 stories, 350,000 words) ranging over a variety of gay male fetishes. A best-seller of mine, still going strong on sales after eight years in the market.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Hvb0VmX8L.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg
 
Bramblethorn said:
Good work from whoever found that background shot.
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Thanks. I found the background shot, but the publisher worked up the cover (and matched it with the guy in the foreground (who doesn't have my favorite look). Gotta have such a guy for the buyer to know the genre instantly.
 
KeithD said:
Combine the stories in themed anthologies and put them up on Amazon/Smashwords/B&N/etc. I'm told mine go on seven sales platforms. (I have a publisher doing all of this). My current avatar, for instance, is from an anthology of particularly intense (sexually) stories.


This is a running series, unthemed and billed as written in chronological order during a set period, with background given on the writing of the stories.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81UP-vBNlvL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg



These are specifically themed stories--all set in some form of lighthouse setting, but otherwise different:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71aRm8LdQ9L.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg


This is a humongous collection of stories (over 80 stories, 350,000 words) ranging over a variety of gay male fetishes. A best-seller of mine, still going strong on sales after eight years in the market.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61Hvb0VmX8L.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg
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Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Appreciate it!:rose:
 
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