The world will read your sex stories Worldly desires (CC by I am R) It's my birthday. This blog is now one year old. One spin around the sun since the day I decided to join the world of erotic…
Category: publishing
Making a buck a day
Fun (CC by Tom Hodgkinson) I haven't been posting much here, I know. Surprised that anybody is still bothering to check, but I've been entertaining a few, I see from my mailbox notifications. The simple answer is that I've been…
Love is blind
I've been following Kelanie Black, erotica writer, for some time. In a field of literature where so many seem to write the same stories over and over, Kelanie stands out as providing a different take on things.She has found a…
Call me Goat
Just kidding. There's nothing about animals in this book. It's all about torture, as the reader realises they have spent ten bucks on something that is at least over mercifully quick. A bit like a boyfriend I used to have,…
And Carrie makes three
The process of formatting a book in Vellum is simplicity itself. I use Scrivener for writing, and I have yet to find a better tool for the writer. Apart from being a lovely writing environment, Scrivener can handle all the…
Fresh and fun
Hot on the heels of my purchase of Vellum, the extraordinary book publishing program, my first project was a fresh new edition of my first published erotica story, Coding by Candlelight.This time the contents page looks and works as it…
Casus Vellum
One of the first questions I had when I got into this game was "How do I turn my words into an e-book?"It all seemed very difficult for a technical dunce like myself. The simple act of creating a title…
Selling it
I can do better. Inspired by Jane Caleb Wood's advice here, I set my hand to designing an ad for Mile High Scrub. I think it kind of works, but my image doesn't fit in with the blue background. The…
How to be the Queen of Sex
Vickie Vaughan and her erotic stories have appeared in this blog before. She not only knows how to write white-hot sex scenes that put the reader into the heat of the action, but she constructs a plot that pulls the…
Wordselling
There comes a time in the career of every Kindle writer when they realise that despite the anxious study of the sales figures, it ain't happening. Their lovingly-crafted works of literature are part of the long tail. Sure, published, available…