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  1. Selfy

    Eroticus Pornoticus: Writing Erotic Romance Help Thread

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    The majority of romance books are 10k-20k. I mean there are longer ones. But they're gaming it anyways. I even saw an author put up a 100+ page romance book and got glowing reviews, then her next one was just 30 pages (10k) words which the same reviews ultimately hated. I can't shake the feeling...
  2. Selfy

    Eroticus Pornoticus: Writing Erotic Romance Help Thread

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    The need I understand as well. Basically they want fantasy the same way guys want porn. They want an alpha male but they are not willing (or unable) to get their dream man. So they resort to the ice cream version of their alpha man. The ice-cream only lasts 1 hour, or how ever long it takes to...
  3. Selfy

    Eroticus Pornoticus: Writing Erotic Romance Help Thread

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    I can see this thinking, but then I look at a book that i've been tracking since I started. This one book is 10k words, does not even have an author profile, and just is one book listed under the two books under the author's name. I started tracking it when it was already 2.5 months in the...
  4. Selfy

    Eroticus Pornoticus: Writing Erotic Romance Help Thread

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    //edit: these are things i've learned. I am far from being successful at this. From the romance books I read, it seems an overwhelming majority will end in a sex scene. I think everything else is just foreplay to the sex-scene, like building up the emotions, getting her invested etc. This...
  5. Selfy

    Eroticus Pornoticus: Writing Erotic Romance Help Thread

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    Blood engorged creamy tips... So let's go ahead and make porn with words. Or romantic stories that end in seks. I'd like to start this thread for anyone who's getting started with writing erotica fast lane style. This is also for romance writers. Anyone who has tips and suggestions are welcome...
  6. Selfy

    Beta Readers...

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    185k words. Holy crap thats long. Ill beta it, or just a scene.
  7. Selfy

    Beta Readers...

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    Are you going to go full-in with erotica writing? haha! That's awesome man. Romance and erotica overlap just so you know. Romance has like 1/5 emotional-driven sex and erotica has 2/3 porn sex. That's from the books I looked at. Check the books of other prominent writers here, you'll be...
  8. Selfy

    Beta Readers...

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    I'll do beta testing of your wares, Ctc. Lemme know. ANyboy needs beta-testing, I'm your guy. Just send me a pm.
  9. Selfy

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    Thank you. We might have fundamental difference here, me being a "hack" writer, but in the end of the day I only care about my sales. I do not give a fxk all about trying to be a real writer. I just care about churning the books out. Different strategies for all people. But when I hit my 30th...
  10. Selfy

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    Can you please stop putting out free books in my niche. Thanks. Kidding aside. I read some of your books and I'm "enthralled" (thrall) by the way you write and convey your stories. I hope one day to be in the big leagues as yourself. In fact, I just registered in your self-pub website. Thanks...
  11. Selfy

    Jumping on the bandwagon

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    I think this was directed to my post so i'll answer. To tell you the truth, I am a newbie. And I want to make money. Hfr thread is what i'm modelling after only because I'm a newbie. I am not a writer, nor do I aspire to be. I don't want to read fiction unless it's something I'm studying. As a...
  12. Selfy

    I'm going to write that book, baby.

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    Just playing with numbers, assuming your 5 books a month sells 5 more than the last then refreshes every month. Sell at 1.99 set at .35 royalty. This is what I got. I think I shot myself in the foot with this, but oh well. 5 3.4825 10 6.965 15 10.4475 20 13.93 25 17.4125 52.2375 30...
  13. Selfy

    Out of a Funk - a Newbie's Journey In Self Publishing

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    I think @Held for Ransom had 34 titles before his break out run. He isn't very clear on any of his numbers asides from his sales. Or whether he had them all under one author's name. I think when HFR wrote his first book, he was a craptastic writer, but due to the accumulation of his titles he...
  14. Selfy

    Out of a Funk - a Newbie's Journey In Self Publishing

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    That's 1k writing words an hour. I got that number from a discussion in a thread. I am like you, just starting out so I may not be the best. But I have a strategy and that is learning from held for ransom, who claims to be a non-writer. The gist of his thread is to fail faster. That 12 sales I...
  15. Selfy

    PSYCHOANALYSIS: + The Entrepreneur's Peer Support Thread +

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    The mindset that I need is to track my time carefully, and that is, to stop reading how millionaires think and how entrepreneurs work. I've done that for five years trying to distill a nugget of their psychologies. Nothing worked, nor as effective as doing the actual work, the actual grinding...
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    What would you do with a series of valuable ebooks?

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    If I write a book, like how you are, then i'll have hundreds of people to give me a beta test. Then when it's ready then you can again sell to the very same people. Or when you can use the list to sell another book. My first ever ebook was edited by these people. Then I sold it to the new...
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    What would you do with a series of valuable ebooks?

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    I have a couple books on the dating relationship arena. The best way at it is to develop yourself as a credibility in the area. This is done mostly through blogs. If you have a blog route, you should realize that it takes a lot of time to market it properly and make people aware of your books...
  18. Selfy

    Out of a Funk - a Newbie's Journey In Self Publishing

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    LisaK, Try aiming for 1k words an hour. That seems to be an acceptable hourly word rate. Then the edits shouldn't take more than 1/3 of your total write time. The numbers take 10 -14 days after publishing on amazon. That's the time you know if you made it. Personally I would like to get a...
  19. Selfy

    On Book Cover Design...

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    Wow they charge images per day, with lowest at 5 per day. So this is where graphic designers get their wares. One could technically launch a magazine using only this service. lol
  20. Selfy

    On Book Cover Design...

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    This photo probably a stock photo of a road. Then the puzzle pieces and dollar transparently layered on the road and resized to reach that point on the horizon where everything converges (i just realized that was a dollar). That horizon has a circle opaque light set to high luminosity. Most...

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