Category: Dean Chills

Jumping off the Cliff into Erotica

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Episode 13: Jumping off the Cliff

Michelle wrote in way back in October and asked:

I am a freelance writer and aside from blog posts I have ghost written, my true passion has never had exposure. I am often asked by female friends and family members to write erotica and romance stories for them.  This has turned into a Christmas and birthday tradition.  I have to limit them to one story request per month.  

I want to take the plunge into my career as a publish author of romance and erotica but I find myself at the edge of the cliff looking out. There are so many others out there like the vastness of the sea.  I want to jump, but I need some one to come up behind me and push.

What would you recommend as far as a sounding board?  I used to practice on fanfic sites but I was not as happy with the quality of the critique.  More often it was the way I handled a character and not the composition of the scene itself. 

I want to hone the craft but in all honesty, I am ashamed to admit I am not totally sure how to do that.  When I taught myself to crochet, I spent hours on getting the stitching right, but as I write my stories, I can’t seem to find the same cohesion.

Maybe I am my own worst enemy, with a devil on each shoulder so to speak.    

I love your podcast; I listen to podcasts while I am working around the house or siting down at my computer working on articles. Please continue your podcast.  

I will write every week with my trials and tribulation if it will give you material to continue- the starting author from their perspective.

 Thank you for the wonderful and informative podcast.  

 

OK then. We’d love to hear you trials and tribulations as a beginning erotica author, Michelle, and that applies to yours and anyone else who would like to share with us.

 

Discussion Points:

  • So how to get started?
  • How did you get started? (Dean, Henry)
  • What are your thoughts? Blog comments.

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Sales and Making Money

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Episode 12: Sales and Money

Henry: Let’s check the mailbag.

Michael wrote in way back in July and asked:

Hey guys,

Just found the podcast last week and I have listened to all the episodes already.  I’m impatiently waiting for the next episode.

Just a question for the show, as an unpublished author who is considering writing erotica, I’m interested in what the likely hood of making a living from erotica is.  I understand that you’ve mentioned the price of $2.99 selling more copies than cheaper listings, but how many sales do you average per book per month?  Did writing 20+ books increase the number of sales of your older books?  I am interested in how well erotica writing will allow a person to spend the time to work on their other lines of fiction.  I understand you can not guarantee what any other author’s writing will or won’t sell for, but if you can just give ball-park numbers of what you’ve experienced would be really great.

Thank you for your time.

 

Discussion Points:

  • Are you making a full-time income from Erotica?
  • Do you ever expect to?
  • Is there something you could be doing to make more money?
  • What are your thoughts? Blog comments below!

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Titles mentioned:

Poseidon’s Plaything, by H. K. Kiting
My Second Date with Santa by Dean Chills

Audio (Amazon, Audible, Apple):

Scuba Lessons #1: Pool Time by Dean Chills
Scuba Lessons #2: The Quarry by Dean Chills
Scuba Lessons #3: Going Deeper by Dean Chills

My Turn in the Barrel by H. K. Kiting (Paperback only on Amazon)

Bound for Happiness by Dean Chills
The Biker and the Rose by Dean Chills

My Second Date with Santa

Breath Control Dean Chills Holiday

Second Date with Santa 200x300by Dean Chills

 

When Tom runs into Chris, once again playing Santa at the store, he wonders if Chris had a good time when they’d played together last year. He slips the busy Santa a note, and sure enough, he gets a visit that very night.

Join Tom and Chris in their unique brand of holiday fun, involving zip-ties, plastic bags, stretch film, and lube.

Santa may only come once a year, but he really looks forward to it!

(Includes Gay Bondage, mutual masturbation, breath control, and oral sex)

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Shiftland Tales Volume 2: Wet and Dry: Gay Shapeshifter Erotica

Breath Control Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Specials

Shiftland Tales 2 1563x2500by H. K. Kiting and Dean Chills

 

Two more erotic shapeshifter tales from the authors of “The Luckiest Man” and the “Rick and Owen Breathplay Series.” In these two short stories, set in the same world as “Shiftland Tales: Tentacles” the spread of the Shifters has continued. The cities are all but uninhabitable, and the survivors have evacuated into the wilderness. Unfortunately, they soon find that the world outside civilization has changed as well.

David travels alone. Running low on supplies, he stops at a beautiful pond to refill his canteen. The area looks safe, so he takes time for a swim. Something out there wants his seed.

Chris has been living in a cave for three months, watching the progression of the fall of Las Vegas. Little does he know that mankind’s absence has allowed older things, long thought to be myths, to return.

Check out these two new erotic tales of apocalyptic horror, where nothing is what it seems.

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Scuba Lessons 3: Going Deep

Breath Control Dean Chills

Scuba Lessons 3 200x300by Dean Chills

 

Phil wants to finish his scuba certification with an open water dive in the Florida Keys. He’s got his instructor/partner Jeremy in tow and driving to the beach. The third story of the series relates the boys’ time in Florida. They stop off for a quick swim in the ocean as soon as they arrive, and Phil makes use of the opportunity to enjoy himself alone. When they return to their motel room, Jeremy has come up with an arousing demonstration for Phil of what can happen when scuba equipment fails. Finally, they take a boat out to their dive location.

Will the dive be a straightforward test of Phil’s abilities? With these two, it seems unlikely. This short erotic tale features multiple masturbation sessions, breathplay, and lots of bubbles.

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Scuba Lessons 2: The Quarry

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The Quarry 200x300by Dean Chills

Phil has passed the classroom portion of his scuba certification and is ready for his confined water dive. His “private tutor,” Jeremy, has suggested they go to a local quarry and explore some of the sunken objects in it.

They find the quarry almost deserted, and they waste no time getting started exploring. When they come across an old school bus, Phil and Jeremy decide to take advantage of their peaceful surroundings to go “even deeper” with each other.

After a sexy time in the bus, they move on to a sunken automobile and take it for a “spin.” Will Phil pass the test, or is he in over his head?

This short erotic tale features gay sex, both oral and anal, manual sex, and lots of bubbles.

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