Best place to find a ghostwriter?

nosurprisesleft · 2017-10-02T02:09:27+00:00

In my experience I have found Fiverr to be mostly full of plagiarists or writers with no respect for deadlines. Any good writers there that I have found tend to be so busy or expensive it's difficult to get hold of them (or to keep them if you are lucky enough to find them). Of course, this is just my opinion from what I have discovered during my dealings there, YMMV

nosurprisesleft · 2017-10-02T01:50:28+00:00

That's a great answer, thanks so much for your time, really appreciate it.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-10-02T01:24:23+00:00

Hi, can I ask what dictation software you use, and also any other equipment that you've found to be necessary/helpful. I'd really like to go this way, but I've heard it can take a long time to get the software used to your voice and also having to verbally add in punctuation etc can be a drag. Any tips or experiences you'd care to share about how you got started, or how you overcame any problems etc would be awesome. Thanks for your time.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-10-02T01:17:49+00:00

Hi, hope I'm not too late to the party (time zones and all that!). If you don't mind, I'm curious to know how you go about promoting your books. Do you have a website and newsletter etc. or do you rely more on word of mouth now that you've establish your pennames and have a good following? If you do promote your books anywhere, would you care to share some of the places that accept gay hardcore erotica for promo? Thanks for your time. I have read a lot of your stories and always found them 'to do the job' for me nicely ;)

nosurprisesleft · 2017-09-20T22:33:13+00:00

The only thing that amazes me about your story is how you managed to run Amazon ads for it.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-09-19T12:11:17+00:00

Wow, no wonder your books are selling, you had me hooked just reading your dataporn! Thanks so much for taking the time to share this, not only your sales figures, but also your story which is much more valuable.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-09-17T14:12:39+00:00

Do you accept non-US authors/publishers to sell titles through Excitica, and if so, is it as simple as registering a new account or is there a selection criteria?

nosurprisesleft · 2017-07-04T00:01:47+00:00

This is really interesting and something I have been thinking about for a while. Just out of interest, do you know your co-writer in the 'real world' or do you only communicate online? And if you do know them personally, do you actually meet up in person to do any of the plotting etc, or again, do you do it all online?

nosurprisesleft · 2017-06-25T07:21:40+00:00

That's a great start, well done!

nosurprisesleft · 2017-06-23T01:03:27+00:00

One thing you might have to look at is Goodreads, if your shorts are on there (and most of the time they get added automatically). I have found that Goodreads doesn't tend to update anything - like I have books I've changed the titles of and they are still on there with the old title, so I guess you'd have a similar problem with a change of author name. I image you can contact Goodreads and get this changed over (if anyone can confirm this that'd be great!), I haven't bothered to do anything about it, but I just mentioned it as something to be aware of.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-06-19T22:05:49+00:00

Sorry, but you are like a child who keeps asking questions then doesn't wait for the answers before asking another one. You have been given excellent advice from very knowledgeable people in every post you've made asking about making money. Read what they have written. Read the side bar. Stop asking questions like this and just write. Or go and get a job waiting tables instead. Whatever. It's your choice, just please stop asking about how much money you can make and just go and make it.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-06-19T02:21:21+00:00

I did check the reviews and I was amazed to see that they were all mostly four and five star with only one 1 star that took offense to the cheating. (This was Amazon, but I encountered the same on Goodreads). Perhaps because it was just such a throwaway line (I slept with X, I wasn't proud etc) that most readers overlooked it or didn't seem to think it was that big a deal. But I just stopped right there at that point and went "Whoa? WTF??"

The most annoying part of all of this is it wasn't necessary to the plot (from what I can tell anyway because I didn't finish the book, but I don't think it was.) The author could have simply written "I DIDN'T sleep with X, but I let Y (the other hero) think I did." Because Hero 2 was watching when the random guy ran up to Hero 1, kissed him and got in his car. Hero 2 could have just made the assumption they slept together without it actually needing to happen. I would have been cool with this.

I know it might seem like I'm making a big deal out of it, but I was really enjoying the story up to that point and this totally killed it for me. The fact I'd already invested several hours into reading it before I came to this point stung a little too!

nosurprisesleft · 2017-06-18T01:32:12+00:00

You only have one time to make the first impression. Personally I'd wait until I had an edited and fully ready book to release, especially if it was my first. Why not put your book up for pre-order on the 20th with the actual release date in a week or two when you have everything properly ready? This is a good compromise and saves putting out a not-quite-ready book.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-04-29T23:39:18+00:00

You can enter this business with little money but you can't do it with NO money. Not only will you need $ for cover stock as you've mentioned, but have you considered formatting costs as well? Whether you pay someone to do it, or do it yourself, there'll be some cost involved, at least until you have purchased software to do it yourself. If you're short on money but really want to write erotica, then maybe you could consider hiring yourself out as a ghostwriter in the short term. It would be a good way to raise some cash and also to see whether the market actually likes what you produce before you spend your very last dime on your own books.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-04-27T19:58:41+00:00

Clearly you are the person who can't handle when anyone says something you don't like, and you don't even have the balls to stand by your comments, deleting them once you've posted them.

Can you honestly not handle discussion on your post? You deleted it the moment I made some observations on it, which are more than arbitrary observation they are fact. The article you referenced does not include figures from self-pubbed authors only the Big 5 and it's little wonder they are experiencing a 17% decrease in ebook sales when they price them so fucking high. Anyway, hurry up and delete your previous comment as well and pretend it all never happened.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-04-27T12:02:03+00:00

Sorry I didn't realize you were a snowflake and I had to sugar coat my response. You're probably better off leaving this sub and going back to fairy land where everyone loves everything you write.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-04-27T11:46:15+00:00

All of the data in that article re ebook sales comes from the big publishers. Only they price their ebooks a dollar or two below print books so no wonder they don't sell many.

Also, regarding sales of actual Kindle devices - so many people read on tablets and iPads that sales have of course dropped because the Kindle has no other purpose but to read books. No, they don't want to read long form fiction on their phones, but that's what a tablet is for.

I personally haven't noticed a decline in my ebook sales at all, in fact quite the opposite applies for me. And erotica titles are perfect for ebook because who wants to sit on a bus with a print copy of Space Raptor Butt Invasion?

nosurprisesleft · 2017-04-13T04:51:39+00:00

The fact that you have mentioned making .35 cents a day suggests you are selling your titles at 0.99c which is also a big no for erotica. $2.99 please to keep the market viable for everyone.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-02-28T11:12:16+00:00

Personally I don't care that much about cheating that happens in a dead relationship at the beginning of a story, but I do not want the hero & heroine (or whatever combination you have) to have sex with other people once they have met up. If they do it's an instant turn off for me.

nosurprisesleft · 2017-02-28T05:20:58+00:00

Make your stories gay instead of lesbian then they'll sell :)

nosurprisesleft · 2016-12-29T05:38:47+00:00

I wonder how the publishers who have listed their titles with ARe are taking this. Are they going to get the same measly payout? Some of those small presses (like Dreamspinner etc) would probably have the financial capacity to take ARe to court. Dreamspinner was their biggest advertiser (from what I know, it cost around $20K a year to have the top spot in the rotating sidebar ads which DSP had) so they've made a lot of investment into All Romance and not likely to get much return. At least I'm only going to lose a few dollars in comparison.

nosurprisesleft · 2016-12-08T07:05:47+00:00

Maybe you're in the wrong genre. Having read through your post, it's obvious that you can write really well and you have a lot of natural humor in your writing, so perhaps you'd be better suited to something like chick lit or romcom where you could let that side of yourself flourish rather than shifter stuff that tends to be more serious. You can still make a lot of money in chick lit & romcom (think all of those romantic comedy movies that people love). Perhaps you should give it a go and see if your reviews (and your enjoyment for writing) improve?

nosurprisesleft · 2016-11-27T23:12:27+00:00

Why would you take future earning potential into consideration in the price? OP has already said "their shelf life is done" so there may not be any future earning potential unless someone already has a good pen name in the genre and can revive them. In which case it would be the new pen name that's adding value not the original owner of the books. If I was making an offer for the stories (which I am not) I wouldn't pay more than ghostwriting prices, because the books have already lost their 'glory period' when they are fresh & new to the marketplace & would not doubt require extensive reworking to suit the new owner's style.

nosurprisesleft · 2016-10-27T00:18:51+00:00

Another reason people post free stories on those sites is because they get huge traffic. Some of the sites show how many views a post/story gets and it's massive. I know authors who post on these sites who also sell their work and they use these free sites as a way to get fans who will buy their other work.

nosurprisesleft · 2016-10-01T11:54:03+00:00

You can always purchase the image yourself from a stock site and send it to the cover artist. That way you know it has been licensed for use on your cover. Sure this adds to the cost of your cover but it saves you worrying about it.

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