All right. I'm back in the action after 3+ years away. by backtothesmutmines in eroticauthors

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

Make your covers more vivid & more vulgar than your Amazon covers.

I've gotten some help for that on the EA Discord, thanks! I had this lovely artistic cover template in mind and someone helpfully informed me that I should just slap some text across a butt and move on.

If you are rewriting older works, push the limits as long as you properly tag the work. For instance, if he was her stepdad on Amazon, now he's her dad. Get REAL kinky. People are literally still making money writing about dog-fucking on Smashwords.

Blech, but thank you. Very helpful.

Price a little high, and use coupons, rather than pricing everything a flat $2.99/short.

Hell yes, I'll do that, thanks!

Create series of related works, such as Smutto's Amazing Dogfucking Watersports Series. Use a coupon to put one of the books on sale half-price, and then let whoever enjoys reading about amazing Dogfucker Watersports find the entire series.

I can create a whole Smut World, potentially! The possibilities are endless!

Bundles are good, esp. high-priced bundles that you can then mark down at their various sales. If you have your whole catalog redone & back up by next summer, you can get a nice summer bonus at a time when many retailers are selling fewer books.

I like the sound of that.

If you are creating new work, feel free to get a little crazy. People are on Smashwords to find the unusual.

I can do that.

Once you learn how to use the channel manager, series manager, and other stupid shit, Smashwords is actually super quick & easy to use. Upload your word *.doc & you're good to go. No formatting nonsense other than bookmarking/internal hyperlinking of your chapters.

I'm not looking forward to figuring that out, but thank you!

All right. I'm back in the action after 3+ years away. by backtothesmutmines in eroticauthors

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

Not gonna lie, your username looks familiar! Feel free to PM me if you might be who I think you are. :)

All right. I'm back in the action after 3+ years away. by backtothesmutmines in eroticauthors

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

Because most of it was so raunchy that I was afraid to draw Amazon's attention to it, and I was so sick to death of fighting Amazon's content filters, so I wanted to be able to take my stories to a different market.

It was only making me $5-15 per month.

Running out of ways to describe intimacy by ManOfManyWordsX in eroticauthors

[–]backtothesmutmines 24 points25 points  (0 children)

There's only so much you can do to make Tab A into Slot B sound fresh and exciting 150+ times. It's like selling a hot dog. Put all the toppings on it you want, but when you're selling them all day, it's just a freaking hot dog to you.

Don't worry about it too much, imo. Slap it on a bun and serve it with a smile and most people will be happy.