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Episode 17: Being Descriptive

Welcome back to Episode Seventeen of the Writing and Publishing Erotica Podcast. I am H. K. Kiting and I am Dean Chills and we’re your hosts for the show. This is the podcast where we talk about writing and publishing in general, and include the occasional tidbit about erotica specifically.

If you haven’t visited our blog, go to SexyFic.com and take a look. All our books are listed there, as well as past episodes of the show. There’s also a notification list sign-up form that lets us drop you an email whenever we have a new book or podcast episode.

If you find enjoy this podcast or find it helpful then review us on iTunes. Also, check out our books at SexyFic.com

What’s your most recent release?

H. K. Kiting: The Bunker / Greek Games

Dean Chills: Jack’s Anniversary

Stay tuned at the end of the show and I’ll fill you in on a way to get my audiobooks for FREE!

Topic One: Description

How important is the role of description in erotica?

Is it good to be very descriptive or more vague about characters and locations?

Are the answers above different with other (non-erotic) genres?

Does it tie in with cover art?

Erotica-specific: How do you talk about sex for forty books and stay original?

Topic Two: Bundling

Do bundles sell better than individual books?

Do you leave the original books available while selling the bundles or do you take them down?

Pricing vs. Free.

And as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, I have an offer for you to get a couple of my audiobooks for free. I have promo codes to get “Scuba Lessons #1: Pool Time” for free through Audible.com. I only have a handful of them, so I can’t give them out to just everyone, so here’s the deal. E-mail me and ask for one, I’ll send you the free code, but you have to promise to leave a review on Audible and/or Amazon for the book. Send me another email, pointing me to your review, and I’ll send you ANOTHER code for the second book in the series, “The Quarry.” If you review THAT one and contact me, I’ll send you a review code for the third book when it gets released. Three free books just for doing a couple of quick reviews. Not, these are gay-themed stories, so if that doesn’t interest you, please don’t ask for a code!

We really want to hear from you. If you have a comment, complaint, or topic suggestion, mail us at sexyfic@gmail.com or stop by SexyFic.com and leave a voicemail on the tab that allows you to record a message. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, and leave a review for the show if you like it.

Underwater Peril Trilogy

January 10, 2015

Breath Control Dean Chills Shorts Straight

by Dean Chills

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These three short, hot tales of underwater sex, peril play, and breath control will turn you on until the air runs out.

Grace Underwater:

I met Grace in the fetish chatroom. She convinced me to come to her penthouse apartment and let her do bad things to me. I didn’t realize at the time that she wanted bad things done to her as well, but I was OK with both of those ideas.

I arrived to learn that Grace was the wife of the city’s drug kingpin, and he was out of town. That should have tipped me off that something was wrong, but when I saw the balcony, with its pool and hot tub, I was tempted. Then I saw Grace herself, and there was no turning back.

Soon to be Single:

I should have known my new bride was up to something when she insisted we take our honeymoon alone on a cabin cruiser in the Caribbean. I wanted to go to Europe, but no, it had to be a cruise.

I was the one who suggested we go snorkeling, and I was the one who initiated sex underwater. Little did I know that she was playing a far more serious game. Is she a “Black Widow,” soon to be single again?

Diving for Diana:

When Diana came into my pool right before closing time, I was disappointed at first; I was hoping to go home after a long evening of lifeguarding. When she came over to me, rubbed my leg and asked if the two of us could stay late, she had me hooked.

She brought in a scuba tank and went to the deep end. I didn’t have any equipment, but I joined her at the bottom of the pool. Then she showed me what she had in mind. Would we both get off before the air tank ran out?

(Heterosexual, kinky, consensual, water-related sex)

Forbidden Winter

January 6, 2015

Breath Control Dean Chills Holiday Non-Series

by Dean Chills

Michelle and her husband Mark decide to take a wintry vacation in a cabin in the woods alongside his friends Peter and Gary. The foursome are expecting an exciting week of snowmen, walks in the woods, snowball fights, and zipping through the trails on their snow machines.

On their second afternoon in the isolated countryside, Michelle rides with Peter on his snowmobile while her husband takes Gary for a ride on his. An accident leaves Michelle and Peter stranded miles from the cabin. What will they do?
As they begin their walk home, they realize they’ll never make it before dark. Fortunately they find shelter on the way back. What will they do to keep warm?

This short erotic tale features heterosexual sex with choking kink.

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Getting Things Done, Procrastination, and 2015 Goals

January 4, 2015

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Episode 16: Getting Things Done, Procrastination, and 2015 Goals

Welcome back to Episode SIXTEEN of the Writing and Publishing Erotica Podcast. I am H. K. Kiting and I am Dean Chills and we’re your hosts for the show. This is the podcast where we talk about writing and publishing in general, and include the occasional tidbit about erotica specifically.

If you haven’t visited our blog, go to SexyFic.com and take a look. All our books are listed there, as well as past episodes of the show. There’s also a notification list sign-up form that lets us drop you an email whenever we have a new book or podcast episode.

If you find enjoy this podcast or find it helpful then review us on iTunes. Also, check out our books at SexyFic.com

What’s your most recent release?

H. K. Kiting: The Bunker

Dean Chills: Working on sequel to “Jack’s Birthday Surprise”

Episode 16: 2015 Goals, Getting Things Done, and Procrastination

Topic ONE: Goals

Happy New Year!

Do you do anything specific with your writing at this time of year?

Chills: I am going through every one of my books, updating my “Also-bys” and looking for typos. I plan to review and republish everything by the end of January. I’ll probably go through it all again in July, at the very least to update the “Also-bys.” The best advertising for your books are your books.

What are your goals for the new year, writing and business-wise?

Kiting: A Book a week. Details?

Chills: Expanding my Non-Fiction books, but still getting out an erotica at least one a month.

Topic TWO: Getting Organized

Do you tend to procrastinate?

Is writing fun or work? Is it a “Job” for you?

What does your weekly work schedule look like?

How many hours a week do you work on writing?

What are your productivity tips? Any tools that you use for staying organized? (Calendars, to-do lists, etc.)

Chills: And as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, I have an offer for you to get a couple of my audiobooks for free. I have promo codes to get “Scuba Lessons #1: Pool Time” for free through Audible.com. I only have a handful of them, so I can’t give them out to just everyone, so here’s the deal. E-mail me and ask for one, I’ll send you the free code, but you have to promise to leave a review on Audible and/or Amazon for the book. Send me another email, pointing me to your review, and I’ll send you ANOTHER code for the second book in the series, “The Quarry.” If you review THAT one and contact me, I’ll send you a review code for the third book when it gets released. Three free books just for doing a couple of quick reviews. Now, these are gay-themed stories, so if that doesn’t interest you, please don’t ask for a code!

Kiting: We really want to hear from you. If you have a comment, complaint, or topic suggestion, mail us at sexyfic@gmail.com or stop by SexyFic.com and leave a voicemail on the tab that allows you to record a message. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, and leave a review for the show if you like it.

Book Covers

December 28, 2014

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If you find enjoy this podcast or find it helpful then review us on iTunes. Also, check out our books at SexyFic.com

What’s your most recent release?

H. K. Kiting: The Funhouse

Dean Chills: Forbidden WInter

Episode 15: Book Covers

We’ve talked a bunch about the act of writing itself, but we’ve never touched on one of the most important aspects of your book: The Cover. In many ways, the cover is more important than the contents of your book: it’s the first thing a prospective reader sees, and if they hate the cover, your book has zero chance of being bought.

What should be on an erotic book cover?

Shirtless men and Fabio clones?
Half-dressed women
Faces or just bodies?

Amazon’s UNOFFICIAL rules:

–Naked female torso including front view or sometimes side view. Side boob inappropriate.
–Arms or hands across breasts.
–Naked butt. On one occasion, upper thigh close to lower butt cheek was unacceptable.
–No naked people in a clinch even if they aren’t “fondling”.
–Any sexual position that implies penetration (Missionary, doggie-style, etc).
–No naked characters straddling each other.
–No handcuffs on wrists. Handcuffs being held is fine.
–No “O” faces.
–No nudity.
–No women on their knees in front of men (as in implied fellatio).
–No men between women’s thighs (as in implied cunnilingus).
–No men’s faces on breasts.

Still there is NO official list of rules other than a vague statement that their content guidelines are “About what you’d expect.”

Ways of getting a book cover made:

Buy a premade book cover
Hire someone to make a book cover
Do it yourself

Doing it yourself:

Tools (Photoshop, Pixelmator, etc.)
Abtract?
Photos- Taken yourself or purchased from Stock Photographers [Jason’s Mummification]

Legal considerations:

Model release (and especially decency clauses)
Photo licenses and royalties. Not as simple as just buying from a stock site.

We really want to hear from you. If you have a comment, complaint, or topic suggestion, mail us at sexyfic@gmail.com or stop by SexyFic.com and leave a voicemail on the tab that allows you to record a message. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, and leave a review for the show if you like it.