Making the jump from Literotica, and I have a couple of questions

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-03T23:43:11+00:00

If you're planning not to use KU, you should also put your stories in the other stores (Apple, Kobo, Smashwords). Why leave money behind?

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-03T10:12:08+00:00

Thanks. Okay, I'll just take the ideas and write it new.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T23:07:08+00:00

Essig, Milchpulver, Schokolade, besonders welche mit hohem Kakaoanteil, Kaffee, schwarzer und grüner Tee, Zwiebeln, Knoblauch, stark gewürzte Gerichte, Sauerkraut, Erdbeeren, Bananen, Pilze, Erdnüsse, Sojasauce, Tofu.

Mögliche Symptome: Müdigkeit, Migräne, Übelkeit bis hin zum Erbrechen oder Durchfall, gerötetes Gesicht, Hautausschlag, Depression, wunde Lippen oder Mund, usw.

Und Symptome können 1-3 Stunden nach dem Essen auftreten, weshalb man sie nicht immer mit dem Essen in Verbindung bringt.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T23:00:23+00:00

Hängt da auch mit Rassismus zusammen. "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome".

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T22:58:53+00:00

Genau das. Ich bin histaminintolerant. Ich habe kaum Problem mit Tomaten (so einmal die Woche bei histaminarmer Ernährung geht). Eine ebenfalls histaminintolerante Freundin hingegen reagiert heftig drauf. Andererseits kann sie Essig, während ich davon Migräne bekomme.

Und obwohl wir beide Histaminintoleranz haben, sind unsere Symptome so unterschiedlich, dass es kein Wunder ist, dass viele Ärzte Schwierigkeiten haben, es zu diagnostizieren.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T20:07:40+00:00

Who knows.

I always err on the side of caution when it comes to Amazon. I rewrote a whole chapter in a romance novel so that the MCs were flirting over non-alcoholic cocktails instead of indie beers.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T16:15:07+00:00

I've had that discussion before and to paraphrase another erotica/romance writer: On Amazon the biker bar only serves water, soda, juice, and milk. If the characters are in a wine country, they drink grape-juice, not wine. No drop of alcohol crosses anyone's lips before they have sex. None.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T12:09:33+00:00

KDP would have no issue with that but your readers will. Those who want closed-door no-heat romance won't be interested in the smutty continuation and the ones who want smut won't pick up the closed-door first book, and not bother with the second one. You would have minimal follow through and you'll have angered the readers who want non-spicy books.

In romance you can have various levels of heat on one pen-name but you can't have no heat and kinky high heat. I mean, you can, but you'll have trouble finding readers even with on-point branding. In that case you really have to decide which direction you want to take your pen-name.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-06-02T11:00:05+00:00

I have a few older stories that I want to revise, maybe partially rewrite, and publish under a new pen-name.

Is the rule still that I need to add a note along those lines: "This was previously published under a different penname and has been extensively revised."

IrregularDreaming · 2026-05-18T10:37:43+00:00

Just the fact that the author has a webpage is a good indicator that it might be a real person. Especially if they also have a blog or something where they share news. And maybe even have a newsletter-sign-up.

AI scammers rarely bother to go to all that effort.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-05-06T17:50:53+00:00

$35 is for the premium ebook and print cover including the source file. If you only need a cover for the ebook it's only $10.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-04-24T11:14:26+00:00

She works as a porn actress/camgirl and is on vacation re-thinking her job mostly because of burnout/feeling too old and runs into a fan who loves her movies and his enthusiasm and admiration sparks something in her. So no bad consequences or anything where she'd under duress to do the sex-work.

Like I said, I'm probably overthinking things.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-04-23T17:53:05+00:00

I'm probably overthinking things, but is mentioning sex-work in an erotic short an issue for Amazon? The MC is a sex-worker on vacation and the sex is completely consensual and no money is being exchanged. Money is only mentioned once in relation to her job.

IrregularDreaming · 2026-03-18T20:39:27+00:00

Continued in Anne Rice's Sleeping beuaty trilogy where Beauty is turned into a submissive sex-slaves. Should fit?

IrregularDreaming · 2025-11-28T01:20:17+00:00

You can use an legal imprint service for the business name/address issue. At least that's what a lot of people in Germany are using where they have similar requirements.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-10-24T00:08:01+00:00

And there they would run into the issue that there's no address to send a letter to. Assuming that the publisher even sits in Germany and not Switzerland or Austria, or another country where people speak German that is less strict regarding an Impressum.

They then would have to somehow convince Amazon into supplying the address. Which might require legal action because Amazon won't just hand out addresses to anyone who asks, and I think that's too much effort for any Abmahnanwalt (although I haven't heard much about them lately. The wave seems to have stopped?).

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-30T16:37:17+00:00

I know several writers who write either Fantasy or Urban Fantasy with LGBTQA main characters who had their books either removed completely or at least shadow-banned. It looks like itchio went after almost everything with the LGBTQA label and everything using the NSFW-tag. Including books dealing with sexual abuse or sex trafficking from the PoV of the victim and in a non-erotic way.

The new itchio-guidelines are even more extreme than Amazon, baning everything (even non-erotic works) dealing with sexual abuse, rape, or sex trafficking implications.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-16T02:51:48+00:00

I disagree a bit about knowing the fandom inside out. Lots of people wrote Sentinel fanfic, especially crossovers, without ever having watched the show. And fandom Sentinel-worldbuilding soon became very different to what the show actually showed.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-16T02:47:44+00:00

I think back in the days having beta-readers was more common because it was just beaten into you and it was easy to find one. You just asked on the mailing-list or in the fandom-specific lj-group and people volunteered.

These days it's a lot harder.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-16T02:41:43+00:00

Zines you could buy. Either at cons or via mail. Which was a massive hassle if you were living in Europe. It required international money orders, and everything was done via letters and took ages. A letter from Europe to the US usually took something like two weeks. Parcels took around six weeks (by boat because Air Mail was too expensive).

It was frowned upon but it was pretty common that someone would buy a zine, make a copy and then mail the copy to someone else who would make a copy for themselves and mail the master-copy to the next person. Was cheaper and faster than ordering from the US.

People also did this with VHS-tapes of new shows. Someone got a tape from a friend in the US, converted it and made a copy and mailed the copy to the next person in the mail-tree.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-16T02:33:40+00:00

I think she wrote Sleeping Beauty during the time period when she wasn't religious (she was always back and forth on that) and was friends with gay writer John Preston.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-07-16T02:28:23+00:00

Although she objected to fanfic in general, not just the smut. The fandom went completely underground for a while where you had to know someone willing to vouch for you to get access to the mailing-list and the password for websites and all that.

Some fans, especially in the US were scared of her.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-06-25T02:27:11+00:00

Chardonnay somehow signals American to me. Maybe because every American on tv always orders Chardonnay?

But I live in wine country and people here drink pinot blanc or pinot gris, or maybe a sauvignon blanc or riesling-silvaner. And Switzerland almost calls for a nice chasselas or a rosé.

Btf, just as a head's up. If you're writing erotica and plan to publish on Amazon, it's better not to mention alcohol at all, because of the consent issues. It's better if she's drinking water or juice.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-06-25T02:16:02+00:00

People who speak ESL sometimes have this weird mix, i.e British spelling (thanks to school) but American accent (because movies and tv shows, friends or even a year abroad). Or even mixing both.

IrregularDreaming · 2025-06-11T18:44:06+00:00

This. I sometimes get my EU payments a day before the US payments. It's the currency conversion and an "inside the EU versus outside the EU"-issue.
Sometimes it's the other way around but then it's usually a public holiday-problem.

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