Monday, October 13, 2014
A follow up on my post Dark Fantasies published September 2013.
Just over a year ago I wrote a
post called Dark Fantasies. I had sold several books about pseudo-incest and
trannies which surprised me at the time.
The trend hasn’t changed those
topics are my most sold books. I have added a few more in the same genre and
they are also selling well.
I still haven’t figured out why
these are popular, what I do know is that the topics are very sensitive and I
had to rewrite one of them due to Amazon’s bots or human reviewers. Not a major
problem, but a hitch.
Maybe we are secretly curious and
with the invention of the e-book we can read about all the topics that just a
few years ago we could never do in public. Imagine sitting on a train with a
pocket book called, “Anna’s love for daddy.” It wouldn’t be possible, or at
least not very comfortable. These days the name of the book can be a lot more provocative
and no one around you would know.
Maybe reading lets us understand
our own sexuality and curiosities. We can read about topics we would never talk
about with friends or families. Then we let our own fantasies take us to that
special place.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Why I write graphic erotica and don't like to use metaphors
When people ask me what kind of
Erotica I write, I tell them; graphic. Usually I get a look saying “What?”
Followed by; “Oh, it’s like comic books for adults?”
For me graphic erotica is somewhere
between normal erotica and porn. You have the story, developed characters and
real dialog as in erotica, but the sex scenes are more detailed, almost
pornographic.
Some of my novellas were band on
Amazon and some other e-book outlets, but after rewriting them they were allowed
to stay.
While I rewrote them and softened
up the words I used in the sex scenes I realized I didn’t like the story as
much as before.
When you write a character, or at
least when I do, I imagine how he or she would say things, and a man in his
late twenties would not say “vagina” to a friend while telling him about a girl
he was with the night before. He would say “pussy” or similar.
“Hey buddy, you should have seen
the “honey pot” on that girl I picked up last night, it was beautiful.”
That, to me doesn’t sound real.
So why use such metaphors? One
reason is to comply with the e-book publisher’s policies. Another is so catch
more readers maybe, or adjust your writing to what you think readers want. But,
wait a minute. Someone once said. “You should write what you like, not what you
think other people will like. If you do, it doesn’t sound real, it sounds made
up.”
Well, I like to read about juicy
sex scene with things “squirting” and being “wet”. I like cock and pussy; I
like boobs, tits and nipples. I don’t like; meat sausages, love swords, honey
pot, pink tacos, etc. I want to be turned on, I want to become wet, not laugh and
giggle (well, that too, but in a sexy way).
Some years ago I had a boyfriend
who was into pornography he loved to watch porn at night before going to bed.
In the beginning I didn’t like it but being a good girlfriend I would keep him
company.
I had not watched much porn
before, none of my earlier boyfriends were into it, and personally I couldn’t
be bothered. But, this guy had pretty good taste, so after a couple of weeks I
actually began to enjoy the movies.
Most men are turned on what they
see, not what they read, while women are the opposite. I realized I liked and
was turned on what I saw. At the time I hadn’t begun writing, but when I did I
remembered this guy and his affection for porn, so I began to write the way I
do. Some people like it and some don’t but I write what I like, and to me that
is important.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Summer update
This summer I decided to leave the little Island I live on
and go and work on the Spanish mainland. I found a small seaside town close to
Malaga where I have now been for over a month. The tourists here are generally older
than where I usually am and it’s a great change.
Due to this move my writing has suffered. I was hoping to
finish the next installment of Nat Smiley and finish off another novella called
Body Double. I don’t think they will be ready until the end of August but I
will keep you posted through here.
Have a great summer, and make lots of love!
A special thanks to the readers at Barnes & Nobel
and IBooks, for finding me
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Movie recomendation "Authors.Anonymous"
If you are a struggling aouthor like me you might enjoy the movie "Authors.Anonymous."
It's about a group of writers in a writers group.
It's about a group of writers in a writers group.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Quality or quantity
When I published my first novella, Work Experience, on Smashwords almost a year ago, I would sit in front of my
computer and click Refresh every ten minutes. I had put the book on free for 24
hours and when the promotion was over I had my champagne glass ready to
celebrate the hundreds of books I would sell. Guess what? No sales, not the
first hour, not the first day, and not the first month. Devastated and highly
questioning my ability to write I sat down and made lists of things I wanted to
find out. Then I did my research, and what I found was that most people who
sell decent amounts of books have several books on sale be it a series or stand
alone.
“Everyone knows that”, you might
say. I didn’t, but I am a quick learner. I locked my doors, and made a large
pot of tea, and then I went to work. I wrote several more books in the Nat
Smiley series, and I did some research on Amazon’s KDP. It was more complicated
to set up and account on Amazon, but I did it and when it was done, so was my
new novellas. I unpublished on Smashwords, because Amazon doesn’t let you have
your books on other sites if you are enrolled in KDP.
On an early morning I uploaded
three novellas to KDP and put them for free for 24 hours. This time I did not
sit and click refresh every ten minutes. I went to work. When I came home, I
had several hundreds free download, and the next morning I actually had some
sales too. I was a happy camper!
So, what does this have to do with
the subject of this article? Sadly, to be able to write fast enough to be able
to publish a new novella every month, some things have to be put on the side,
or don half assed. Editing comes to mind. Yes, I am aware that the reader
expects the highest quality in editing when they buy a book from us Indie
writers, we should be on par with the traditionally published authors. But,
there is one big difference; most of us don’t have hundreds or thousands of
dollars to invest in an editor. We have friends or family that reads our books
and help us. They take the time to do it because they believe in us, but they
are not professionals. I would love to be able to e-mail my manuscript and get
it back perfectly edited, but sadly I don’t have the cash to do it, yet.
Where does that leave us, the
author and the reader? The author does the best he or she can do, and the
reader buys a book with a story they like (hopefully) but with some grammatical
errors. We price our books much lower than the traditionally published authors
because we know, or at least I know, my novellas don’t have the same standard
as the others. But, I believe in my stories and I hope that the reader will
enjoy them and forgive me for my errors.
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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