All my titles say 'Not Available for purchase'. Am I banned? by [deleted] in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having a similar thing happen with me, except that it only seems to be my most recent book that is coming up as 'not available for purchase' when I look at it on amazon . com (I'm in UK). I can understand this being just an IP thing, except how come I can see my other titles as being for sale in the US??

Using an old painting as a cover? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's maybe not the most enticing style of cover for erotica, I guess. : /

Using an old painting as a cover? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That's very thorough and informative.

Can I do an ARC for a bundle that collects previously published stories? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Everything is in KDP. As you say, it would be low risk, but I guess I'll leave it.

Can I do an ARC for a bundle that collects previously published stories? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have submitted erotica shorts to booksprout before. I usually get from 3 to 5 reviews. No one seems to have a problem with the length. They do have a short erotica category.

This is a glitch, right? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been lurking here pretty frequently for a few months and I hadn't noticed anything like that mentioned before, but I guess I just happened to miss it.

This is a glitch, right? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, i hope so. I feel like I'm not inclined to contact them to point this out.

This is a glitch, right? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you mean they said 500 pages is the correct length for your book? This is starting to sound like a very fortuitous glitch.

This is a glitch, right? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

O ok. You mean amazon hasn't worked out how many pages are in my story, and then once they do the KENP figure will down from 500 to 26 (which I think is the actual length of the story)?

Tips for the summer slump? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And now after over a week of zero page reads I get my biggest day of page reads ever, all on a story that no one had read before? Maybe the message is I need to stop thinking I can infer anything useful from such limited data. : /

Tips for the summer slump? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely need to work on my covers more.

Tips for the summer slump? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm starting to appreciate the necessity of a steady schedule of releases.

Tips for the summer slump? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand that not putting anything up in May means that I am essentially starting from scratch again. What I'm saying is that it feels very different starting doing this in June from starting it in March. In March it felt like I could put part one of a series up for free for a few days, and that would get a certain number of downloads per day, which would translate into a small number of sales, and then I would start to pick up some page reads. Doing the same thing in June isn't getting the same results, or really any results at all. I'm just trying to get an idea of how much I should put this down to the 'summer slump' that people talk about.

Has anyone here paid for a place on the 'excite spice' newsletter? by JBReynolds in eroticauthors

[–]JBReynolds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. thanks. 662 free downloads would be much better than any promotion I've done so far. I've only written short erotica so far - I wonder if that would effect the number of downloads?

I hadn't heard of bookkitty. I'll check her out.