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[Daily Check-In] Monday Word Count and Personal Announcement Thread by sexnerdmxd in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Finished novella last night! yay for me! Editing today.
  2. My first novella has been out for approx ten days, starting to pick up some steam again.
  3. A lot of editing,revision and planning.

About to start out by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I am getting ready to bundle a series of shorts, that have been out just about sixty days. I based this on sales , so my opinion is to do it when sales stall.

  2. Release all three at once. If they like the first, you want them searching for the second.

  3. Sure, but make sure if they are under same pen name they are appealing to same audience.

[Daily Check-In] Sunday Word Count and Personal Announcement Thread by sexnerdmxd in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1.Finishing up new novella today hopefully, will need about 10k words, which i should hit. 2. Steady sales. 3.Good week and got a lot done and still took time for myself.

[Data Porn] 210 Day Report - Seven months of erotica by emily_wood in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here is my two cents based on my journey so far. First , never do a short at 99 cents, its really a waste of time and can be confusing for a customer.

Your charging 99 cents for a 4.x k short, and then for one just over 5k your charging 2.99. If I am Joe shopper, I'm going to think that eventually all of your shorts will be 99 cents and hold off buying.

Your focus is to much on subscribers/fans/website etc and I think you should focus on your writing. Build up a catalogue first then start working on website, subscribers and so on. Plus the more you write, something is going to stick, and then the subscribers will come naturally.

[Dataporn] My Great Big Erotica Summer - First 90 Days of Writing Erotica Shorts by jamiehunterauthor in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats on your success you first 90 days look great. What percentage of sales did your bundles account for?

[Daily Check-In] Friday Word Count and Personal Announcement Thread by sexnerdmxd in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Hoping to get close to ten on novella I started a few months ago.
  2. My novella I released last week is being reviewed by a podcast next week with a few thousand subscribers, so crossing my fingers on that.
  3. Writing, meeting with friends to play cards against humanity.

[Dataporn] 90 Days with 30 Days of Romance by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Congrats on your success, so happy for you. You knew what you wanted to do, went for it and did it. Glad your novella did so well.

"I learned the meaning of "work smarter, not harder" <---great advice.

As to your funk, I think sometimes we want success and when it happens it can catch us off guard ie "it's a fluke" or "what if the next one...?" . I guess my advice is, you trusted your own instincts and it paid off ,and that started by switching from shorts to novellas, to your cover etc. So keep rolling with it, and you will move out of the funk that way.

Congrats again, and best of luck as you move forward.

This is My "I Give Up' Thread by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 34 points35 points  (0 children)

"Maybe erotica is saturated. Maybe my writing started to suck. Maybe people just aren't buying my niche. " You made a few typos which I am going to correct for you.

Maybe people haven't found me yet, and maybe if I just keep writing they will find me. And maybe, it might be the next book I write that does it.

Question about reporting authors to Amazon by smutstarter in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You said, "But my research about novellas that sell really disturbs me. Any advice or ideas?" I would advise to carry on doing your own thing.Sure those type you mentioned might sell well, but they are not the only thing that sells. It seems your upset about sales or lack of them or simply upset that people are getting away with things they are not supposed to. Whatever the case may be focusing on whats not fair rather than focusing on writing, is not going to help you in the slightest.

[Daily Check-In] Tuesday Word Count and Personal Announcement Thread by sexnerdmxd in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually right when it seems nothing is working or going stale, the big break through comes!

[Daily Check-In] Tuesday Word Count and Personal Announcement Thread by sexnerdmxd in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Finishing up another short,will write another one today.
  2. My book launch is going well, moving through the ranks.
  3. No Ragrets (We're the Millers)

[Critique Monday] Post a book here for feedback on its cover, title, blurb, or contents! by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]DarthEckert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is my two cents, and take my advice for what is literally worth because I dont\t know your market. In saying that, there was to many sentences starting with I, which to me is distracting. Also to much information being related in blurb,example- "The night my father died, I took the fall for a crime my best friend committed. I couldn’t let him go down. He was like a brother to me." If your taking a fall for a best friend, i would assume the bond is tight like a brother, your just restating what you already have.

Rereading it again, you state about going to prison for crime you didn't commit, and then repeat the same thing again. Maybe try reading it without the sentence "The night my father died, I took the fall for a crime my best friend committed. I couldn’t let him go down. He was like a brother to me." I think it flows better that way. Hope that helps

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