I published an erotica short story collection several months ago on Amazon and sold exactly zero copies, whereas in the past I've at least managed to sell a handful (I had promoted the past ones on a porn Tumblr that has since been shut down).
I enrolled it on Kindle Select when I published it. What else can I do to get some sales?
It is not BDSM or vampires or gay or dinosaur-related, so that's probably my problem.
Bump.
>>9430525
Post in related subreddits
>>9432351
That's an option, I suppose. I really hate the idea of being thrown into an arena where I'm expected to talk about my work.
>>9432384
All you have to do is give very cookie cutter answers. You might hit it big. I mean relatively big, like you might be big on some erotica subreddit.
Also you could post it right here ITT.
>>9432404
Follow up it would probably be best if you posted one story as a sample on Reddit, and then put the link to buy the collection.
>>9432404
Only reason I say is because my stuff is pretty much vanilla. It's all public nudity and blowjobs, and that's about it. I feel like it's not really similar to a lot of erotica that's popular out there and might not amount to much for some people.
>>9432418
That's an idea. As far as this thread, you mean post a snippet? 'Cause it's already published.
>>9432431
Post the link
>>9432543
Alrighty, here ya go.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU8LP5O
>>9432596
I might buy this just because the cover is pretty good and it's pretty short. My friend keeps trying to get me to use kindle shit and I haven't finished anything I've gotten from the kindle store but maybe I can finish this bc length. (I know there's a lot of short kindle fiction for cheap but I'm too lazy to look for it)
>>9432596
>Shades of Junioress
kek nice one
How much money have you made off erotica, and how much did you write to earn it? I've never written anything like that but writing some toned-down Chuck Tingle shit might be interesting
paradoxically the more niche your material is the more sales you will get in most cases. Garden variety smut is too easy to come by these days. That's why dinosex moves your product.
>>9433896
Hmm I wonder what type of niche I can find that would tolerable to write?
I guess exhibitionism is still too normal.
>>9433478
Kindle is great for storing short collections, there's mobi files of the complete sherlock holmes and lovecraft on the web for free.
>>9434414
Something humorous usually gets more attention. You need some kind of gimmick.
There was that podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno, the book itself was very vanilla self-published smut, but it had the angle of the author's son and his friends making a show about it that boosted sales.
>>9430525
are they giving it away for free? a lot of porn gets given away for free to trick people into joining.
>It is not BDSM or vampires or gay or dinosaur-related, so that's probably my problem.
yes, try writing a gender bender story, the section about women fucking rich men and their step brothers is full. try writing about a girl that gets wet from serial killers (it already exists) If you can't get love than go for hate since hate generates publicity and sometimes sales
>>9434414
exhibitionism works if you set it in school or farm, some innocent location. The act itself is less important than the setting and character behavior
>>9434521
That's almost what my first e-book was like. It involved a nude school of teen girls on a private island that a guy gets to visit, and was kind of silly. Not way out-there silly, though.
Bump for erotic interest. Just picked back up a story set I was working on when I published Hard Businesses. I'm newly motivated.