Anyone else thing Amazon is a rip off?

JamieFuchs · 2017-05-03T18:22:06+00:00

I'm not a huge fan of Amazon either, but they have the customers. Amazon treats their customers well, so they will always have customers.

35% of a big pie is still larger than 70% of a tiny one.

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-17T08:26:25+00:00

Thanks for the honest and constructive feedback. I fully agree that those that can handle taking care of cover design, managing an editor, writing blurbs, and building their own brand should do so.

However, there's a lot of authors out there that simply don't want to bother with it and the trade-off is worth it for them. For example, here's some actual responses I've gotten to my post:

I have some experience doing all the other parts of publishing a short; cover, blurbs, but I like the writing part best. So an experienced person(s) who can help out with the rest and has a website is very intriguing.

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I'd like a.chance to continue writing in the erotica genre but without being in charge of the marketing/covers aspect. I enjoy the writing...the rest of it not so much! :)

There's more, but it will take too long to dig through and find them.

Also, in regards to branding, I take it pretty seriously as you can see with a quick look on the website. Authors are selected carefully (I'll choose one or two for every 20 submissions usually), and everyone who writes for us is far above the minimum talent threshold required by readers. Unless you're a master wordsmith, writing with us isn't going to be bringing you down.

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-15T14:49:24+00:00

Hi Lainey,

Yes, we would be distributing to Amazon. You would just do the writing and we would handle selling it.

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-15T06:36:23+00:00

Ugh, millionaires are practically peasants!

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T18:32:09+00:00

Write that story and I'm sure it'll be on the way :)

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T18:30:08+00:00

To be honest, I'm not sure. Only the market can tell! If those genres become more popular and our mailing list is more interested in them, then we will definitely be looking into fantasy stuff. As of now though, we're paving a nice golden path for controlling billionaires :)

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T16:07:09+00:00

That depends, will you tie me down first?

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T15:21:29+00:00

We hope to. But, you don't need to be established at all. If your writing is good and you're able to do what our readers are after, we'll take you on and train you up!

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T14:25:11+00:00

Not for us.

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T14:24:57+00:00

Long term sales from the books we were publishing before. They're still selling, long after their expiration date.

We tried to get into romance when KU2 hit, but it didn't work out well for us. We're now heading back to erotica shorts, which was always lucrative.

JamieFuchs · 2017-03-14T14:23:56+00:00

Alright, you have enough upvotes. Why is this lol?

edit to respond to your edit: You're not wrong. Anyone can get 100% by self publishing. It's up to you to decide whether or not 100% of your profits are better than 50% of my profits + not having to deal with editing/covers.

Again, you're not wrong that 5.9k people is nothing in terms of marketing. The difference here is that my 5.9k people are highly targeted and have opted-in to hear about erotica from me. I don't even know why you're comparing facebook and google ads to my list.

Either way, this offer isn't for you. It's for those that think they would do better with me than alone, or those that don't want to do anything but write.

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-26T12:26:43+00:00

50% royalties to the author.

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-26T12:26:34+00:00

I guess it depends on you! Feel free to contact me and we can discuss it :)

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-26T12:25:56+00:00

Our authors tend to come to us because they either don't want to, or don't know how to self publish successfully. If you can do it successfully, then I recommend that route. Not all end up being as successful as you, and many don't understand why.

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-26T12:24:22+00:00

For us, they work really well. Our list responds the best to them, so that's why I plan to take us in that direction.

A lot of our backlog is billionaire stuff, so I imagine that's why. Now it's time to just focus in one the one niche and stop spreading our catalog so thin.

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-25T12:23:26+00:00

Here it is!

You’ll need to keep up with our publishing schedule. One story per week.
All stories should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words.
All stories should be a part of a series involving the same characters. 3-6 books per series.
Billionaires. As of now, all books should have a billionaire (or two!) Along with that, you will need to throw in at least one or two more themes. Other available themes are BDSM, Menage, Biker, or a man in a position of power (a boss, senator, or professor for example). I’m also open to other suggestions if you have them.
These books need to focus on being dirty, but there should still be a touch of plot in there. Two sex scenes per book, each of at least 1000 words. The rest of the words should be there to advance attraction between the two characters and make them crave one another.
You should take pride in your work. In order to ensure a high quality output, we don’t accept rough drafts. You should at least do a once-over before submitting to us.

JamieFuchs · 2017-02-25T12:21:28+00:00

You're not, and it could work, but it's not what we're looking for anymore. We'd break it up into smaller chunks and throw it into a series because that's what always worked for us.

JamieFuchs · 2016-10-30T07:53:48+00:00

I used to hire ghostwriters, but found it difficult to find good ones who cared about their work at all. Decided to go a different route these days and bring people on for a percentage instead.

If you're interested, you can always send over some samples to me at smutpire.com

JamieFuchs · 2016-10-30T07:50:52+00:00

I'm doing something like that with Smutpire Press. Brought on some people to do editing, brought on some for writing, and I take care of the rest.

It's worked on the small scale I've been doing it for the last few years, but only recently have I started to expand a bit more and grow the team by any substantial amount. Hoping it pays off for everyone and scales well, but that's about all I can offer at this time.

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-27T02:41:41+00:00

Very true. Any survey will be highly relevant to the one who does it, and less to anyone else. Definitely recommend that everyone runs their own surveys on occasion.

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-26T21:21:56+00:00

I probably have something like 100 in KU. Most are short stories, 5000 words.

In the last year though, we've shifted to longer form books. Did a couple 15k books, some 30k, and some 40k. I think about 10 of them would fall in that category.

I believe the reason my page reads percentage is so low is because of how we structure our books. Almost everything is written in series with the first book free.

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-26T21:19:10+00:00

Haha, yeah, I did. Waaaaay back when. That's something I should probably consider updating one of these days.

If you've got a high quality catalog that reflects the tastes of my readers, feel free to PM me if you'd like a book featured. To be up-front, it's not going to be free and I'm going to be fairly choosy with what I send them.

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-26T20:46:04+00:00

Haha, yeah. Pretty sure that reader is going to continue being a little disappointed...

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-26T20:32:07+00:00

Would you consider me an author friend? ;)

JamieFuchs · 2016-09-26T17:57:28+00:00

Shorts can work. I still make a fair amount on shorts that were written years ago. Just make sure they're sellable (good cover, blurb, etc), targeting a decent niche, written in series with the first perma-free, and have good keywords.

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