Tag: Writing

  • Finishing a final draft is like sex

    Finishing a final draft is like sex, except even more satisfying.  I love that feeling of having one less story fighting the others for space in my skull! Tonight, I just finished my first real eBook in three months!  I tend to publish one title a month, and in March I was getting my 2012…

  • Twitter, Sales in February, and the Shortage of Reviewers

    What I think of Twitter now that I’ve had an account for 5 weeks: If you follow around 10 or so new people a day, and only pick folks who have a 50% follower-to-following ratio or better, you’ll very quickly have 100+ followers.  At that point, you should get 3-4 people following you every day. That…

  • Survey: What do my readers want to read?

    After writing on an informal basis for a year or so now, and a commercial basis for about a quarter, I figure it’s about time to ask my readers what aspects of my books they like the best. To that end, I’ve attached a multiple choice poll. Please keep in mind that “not my kink”…

  • Progress on the sequel to “She Only Wore a Shirt to the Funeral”

    Lately, I’ve been writing lately on the sequel to “She Only Wore a Shirt to the Funeral” , (which happens to be free on Smashwords) and I’m trying out a few new techniques along the way.  I’ve recently discovered that voice recorders really help me write erotica.  The other day, I saw a gorgeous young college girl…

  • Mostly for authors today…

    I have many different things to write about tonight. First, Disturbed is good music to listen to while doing your publicity stuff. Second, if you’re an author, you NEED to go see if you’re on http://www.manicreaders.com/.  I happened to see it when searching for my name, and it seems that they created a skeleton author page…

  • New Cupid’s Armorer cover

    And so, my experiment in designing effective cover art for Cupid’s Armorer continues.  I’m using this title as a test; I’m trying to find a cover which gets people to take a look at it. The original covers (the second of which is the image on the right) were black and white, featuring a cute…

  • Erotica Author Community

    Something I’ve been thinking about for a while now, is that there’s not a whole lot of places for erotic authors to chit-chat and share info on what works and what doesn’t.  Not so much on writing, but on marketing, dealing with publishers, cover designers, etc. To that end, I’ve created a Facebook group for…

  • Hit ctrl-b and keep typing!

    My regulars here know that I tend to write about three things: erotica, statistics, and writing itself.  Lately, I’ve been deficient in that third category, and I wanted to share something which I’ve been trying to get better at lately. You know how you get blocked on stuff?  Forget it; as this insightful essay points…

  • What to do and what not to do as an erotica writer

    In one bit of news, my eBooks have started selling again today.  I’m starting to really think that “how bored do I expect to be tomorrow?” is the big seller for erotica. I should preface the next bit with an explanation of how I see “competition” amongst my fellow authors, one which I adopted upon reading a…

  • An interesting inflection point in stats

    Fair warning for those looking forward to some erotica related updates… this post is for the writers out there, and this post will be pretty dry and statistics-oriented.  I’ll forgive you for skipping this one over entirely. I’ve done some studying of sales statistics lately.  Specifically, I was trying to figure out why today I’ve…

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