Category: Podcast

What’s Different with Erotica?

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Episode 7: What’s Different with Erotica?

 

  • Let’s try something different: We’ll check the mailbag first!

Hey guys!

I’ve just started listening to your podcast, and wow, it’s great! I’m powering through the episodes one after the other.

My (pen) name is Suzuki Sinclair, and I’m soon to put up my own erotica as an e-book. What I’d really love to hear about – whether that’s in a show, or if you’re able to take the time to put your thoughts in an email – is strategies to optimise sales.

I’ve listened to some other self-publishing podcasts and learned about free books and the importance of professional covers and keywords. I was wondering if there was anything you’d learned about specific to erotica that boosted sales?

Thanks, and keep up the great work!

All the best,

Suzuki

We’ll talk about free books another time, but I’ll say right now that our opinion probably isn’t the same one you usually hear. Keywords and cover design, are for another time as well, but both are very important.

You asked about tips specifically for erotica. Sales strategies for erotica is different from that of the latest sci-fi or crime thriller.

  • Your blurbs and description have to be more careful.
  • You may or may not be able to sell to your friends
  • You may or may not even be using your real name
  • There are cover image restrictions
  • Covers have to be what people expect (Forum Story)
  • Build your “Standard” platform: Twitter, Google Plus, Tumblr, Facebook, Pinterest, Blog, and others
  • Build your “Erotic” platform: Seek out message boards and sites that cater to your specific fetish or kink. Don’t spam, but be creative about your postings depending on the place. Tumblr, twitter, fetlife
  • Some things don’t change: AuthorMarketingClub, Bookbub, Mail lists.

If any readers have other suggestions, email them to us or post them in the comments section of SexyFic.com under the show notes.

Setting Goals, Quotas, and Targets

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Writing and Publishing Erotica Podcast

Episode 6: Setting Goals

6. Setting Goals

  • “Dean, I challenge you to write 300,000 words.” People tend to underestimate how much they can do long term and overestimate how much they can do short term.
  • Write 1,000 a day for a year
  • Brave New World 64,531, average 80,000-100,000
  • Be specific on goals, quantify, break it down
  • Master publishing on one venue at a time. Amazon, Kobo, Nook, Smash
  • Schedule it. “I don’t have time” Something else could go? Television? Games? Prioritize
  • Let’s Check the mailbag!

If you have a topic you’d like to hear more about, please let us know. Email either of us at sexyfic@gmail.com

Perspiration and Inspiration, Natural Talent, Getting Better

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Writing and Publishing Erotica Podcast

Episode 5: Perspiration and Inspiration, Natural Talent, Getting better

5. Perspiration and Inspiration

  • Do you have to have a degree to be a writer? (MFA, etc.)
  • “I’ve always wanted to be a writer” – then do it (Aspiring Writers)
  • Do you need to be born with talent? It helps, but if you want to be a concert cellist it takes practice too. (10,000 hour rule)
  • Writing with regularity
  • read work by others – free Kindle books, don’t need a Kindle device. Library!
  • other ways to get better – personal Nanowrimo, daily writing, writing challenges with a friend, write without limiting yourself, writers club or class, Google search, visit your library
  • Let’s Check the mailbag!

 

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Planning and Plotting

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Episode 4: Outlining and Planning  

  • The difference between “Pantsers” and “plotters”

  • Seat of the pants or discovery writing. Letting characters have their way.

  • Outlining and planning.

  • Mind-mapping

  • Is it always better one way or the other? Are there exceptions for you?

 Subscribe to the podcast. Future show topics include: Creating characters, Writing tools, Cover art, Subgenres of erotica, Romance vs. porn, Publishing and formats.

If you have a topic you’d like to hear more about, please let us know. Email either of us at AChillsAuthor@gmail.com or hkkiting@gmail.com

Show and Tell

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast

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Episode 3: Show Don’t tell

  • What is an infodump … Prologue – Long Explanations

  • Why are Info dumps bad?  

  • How do you show instead of tell?

  • Examples from your work?

  • Evil Adverbs

  • Is this a problem for you?

Subscribe to the podcast. Future show topics include: Outlining, Creating characters, Writing tools, Cover art, Subgenres of erotica, Romance vs. porn, Publishing and formats.

If you have a topic you’d like to hear more about, please let us know. Email either of us at AChillsAuthor@gmail.com or hkkiting@gmail.com

Is It Done Yet? How Much Longer?

Dean Chills H. K. Kiting Podcast Specials

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Writing and Publishing Erotica Podcast Episode 2

 

Join erotica authors Dean Chills and H. K. Kiting for a look at writing and self-publishing issues. They are known for their erotica stories, but much of what they say goes with non-erotica writing as well. Each week, they’ll explore a topic related to creative writing, the business of publishing, or just something interesting.

 

Episode 2: Is it done yet? When to finish a story

  • When is it done… Perfection?
  • Do you write for length of story or for publication?
  • How long does a story need to be? Pricing?
  • Time span of process
  • Editing and proofing.., how much is enough?
  • Do you find mistakes six months later?
  • Would you change anything if you could?

 

Theme: Everything Is One Thing, Reprise

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