25% off, 50% off, 75% off, or FREE?

It's my first time using this promotion, so I don't know what discount to go for.

My books: contemporary dark romance and $2.99.

Question: Does this promo work even if I only have a small amount of followers on social media? Has anyone done the sale promo and just let it run without any social media announcements and paid ads?

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Has anyone participated in this promotion before? Did it give a good boost to your sales?

What’s working these days? For sure ChatGPT isn’t friendly? Some thing that you can guide for high quality novels? Thanks

I've got an idea for a new erotica. I could write multiple short stories centering around the one protagonist, or a single novel where she has a variety of encounters. There is an overarching plot, but it's still somewhat picaresque, episode-of-the-week style.

Pros and cons?

Does anyone have an opinion on - when giving a book away for free - what a good download number is? - 100, 200, 500, 1000 - or more?

- And: Can you count on this giving a boost in sales - if the numbers are good - or is the connection here more coincidental - sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't?

I have a number of books in the erotica genre. Fairly mild, women's erotica. I get a decent number of downloads and sales but very little reviews. I'm wondering if erotica readers are less likely to leave a review because it is erotica....

So I am writing this new story that is related to Pee-fetish. But the problem is due to the nature of the story, the protagonist is dealing with minors. Obviously not in a sexual manner, it's more like the person is taking care of some kids like a babysitter. But the erotic things happen completely separately with no relation to kids. Kids are like the general public. THE KIDS ARE NOT INVOLVED IN ANY SEXUAL OR EROTIC ACT AT ALL.

Will this cause issues in my book where automatic filtering systems think that this has something to do with minors in sexual scenes? Or is it even okay to include some minor characters in an Erotica book?
Will Kindle or Draft2Digital reject my book just because of this?

So I recently started writing a Christmas milf themed story. I have written the first chapter and made a start on chapter 2. I am just over a 1000 words, and the minimum word count I want to reach is 5k words.

If I do finish writing it say by the end of this week, I would still need to edit it and proofread it. Then create the cover or hire a cover artist. With all this in consideration, is it too late to publish a Christmas themed story? I know Christmas is still just over 3 weeks away, but with a Christmas themed story, you want to maximise the holiday season as much as possible. I think I am too late but I want to get other people's thoughts on this.

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Dear fellow erotic writers, as a lurker this is my first post in this subreddit, but I’ve been patiently waiting for the app Vellum to get on sale again and right now it actually is for cyber Monday. I have no idea how long it will be on sale. Get it while it’s hot.

Happy writing!

I have my books enrolled in KDP Select. I understand the exclusion clauses in that I can’t publish elsewhere.

Does anyone know whether there’s a particular percentage that’s allowed vs not? I’m wanting to advertise on TikTok using small excerpts of my books (roughly around 2-4% of the total book).

Is this likely too much? I can reduce it if needs be I just want to know if anyone has any sense of where (or if) the line sits?

FWIW, by books are around 10k words and I want to pull around 300 words for various posts. I just don’t know if this is considered too much or too risky.

Any advice? Anyone with experience of advertising on TikTok while being in KDP select?

Hi all, I have a decent back catalogue but don't write much erotica these days as I'm starting to write romance novels. Just wondering if it is a good (or bad) idea to write some micro erotica shorts (maybe 20 pages) and sell for 99 cents every now and then to give the back catalogue a boost? I've never released anything for 99 cents before.

Any experience or advice for this? Thanks

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Long road ahead of me lol.

Whether or not I quit this job comfortably however, I suppose that's up to corporate.

Excited to see where this road goes though!

So, I’ve got a few shorts that would probably fall into the ‘coercion’ category. Think ‘girl cant pay rent, but the hot landlord says he’ll forget about it if she gets on her knees’, etc.

I know Non Con can pretty much only go on Smash, but I dont feel like this is non con. She could choose not to, nobody is forcing her, but at the same time I realise the power disparity lands it in the ‘grey’ area.

Now… Im very risk averse and I wont be putting them on Amazon, so I’m asking how this sits with some of the other sites. Would anywhere else potentially ban ne for this, or is it just Amazon that shows no mercy?

I posted here a couple weeks ago asking about the best platforms to publish on that were similar to Wattpad. Shout-out to those of you who suggested Inkitt! My book was just featured as the first title visible under "new in erotica"! I've hit 600 reads so far 😍

I apologize if this appears to just be thinly veiled seeking for writing partners, but I'm not sure exactly where on Reddit to go. I have a Smashwords penname for taboo stuff that's starting to get real traction, and want to offer direct % splits for people who can write in the voice of my 'brand' so to speak. I am fucking desperate. Where can I go to advertise for this?

I know all about r/eroticasells but since they're very serious about the whole minimum price for work, I don't think they would like the idea of somebody offering a royalty instead of a flat fee.

Thanks to everyone for their time.

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Hello, I need to explain my situation a bit first. Please be aware, it's personal - but I'm not looking or seeking to draw any kind of sympathy. It just is what it is - but it bares relevance to my request here.

Currently, I'm dealing with sepsis (blood poisoning). The cause of it is known, tooth infection, and its treatable. However, I need income for that.

The main issue is that the symptoms of my sepsis severely affect my ability to work. Since my kidneys work overtime to filter the poison, my whole body feels it when I detox. This often results in severe lethargy, confusion and disorientation most notably.

Despite all of this, I've managed, for the most part, to remain a functioning adult. I'm even good financially as far as bills and survival. However, I've found myself stuck, for many months, in a bit of a financial limbo.

Basic adulting has put any work I have done at 0, locked in stasis. I am trying to lean more into my writing to supply the extra income to "get me over the hump" until I get better, which hopefully will be within the next couple of months.

What I'm hoping for are some suggestions , tools or methods I can use to increase my productivity as a writer. While I could turtle it, I'm hoping for alternatives that will help me turn this around as soon as practical.

Before I used to be able to hammer out 10k a day , now I'm lucky if I can do 1,500 without intense focus and the right conditions.

I'm open to pretty much anything, no matter how trivial you feel it might be.

Thanks in advance for those who decide to respond.

I write lesbian BDSM erotica, but also several sub-niches within that niche, such as fantasy, paranormal, monster girls, sci-fi, and more standard contemporary stuff.

My plan is to write lots of series of 5-7 short stories, each in one of those sub-niches (like, a fantasy series, a paranormal series, etc.), and then bundle them.

But I'm wondering what the best strategy is for balancing these different sub-niches. Should I, for example, finish an entire fantasy series before starting a contemporary series? Should I be writing both at the same time, just alternating my releases between them? Does it matter?

I'm curious how other people have handled this kind of thing, and what they have found works best.

Thank you!

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Hi, I’m a dumbdumb about setting up a webpage and all of that technical stuff and had a few questions.

I currently have a free Wordpress blog and I would like to go the self-hosting route (I’m probably not using the terminology right, but I mean that I don’t want it to be on Wordpress’ servers bc they don’t really like adult content). But, silly eager me, I’ve already purchased the “.com” domain of my site from them. Does this mean anything outside of me paying them for the name or do they still hold restrictions on content and, in the future, making money off of the site?

Second question, if I’m going to have a separate site do the web hosting (was looking at Krystal), am I transferring the domain I purchased (am renting? I don’t know how it works really, Wordpress says the purchase renews on 9/23/2025) or do I select an existing domain and “change the name servers”?

I think from there I would be good (I hope) but I’d like to have an erotic blog where I can play with the SEO stuff and write snippets and flash fiction and things like that in between working on actual fleshed out erotica stories. I figure keeping the blog a bit more up to date and hopefully more engagement out of Wordpress hell would be much more motivating than the current slog I’m stuck in.

Thank you anyone who read and even more who replied!

I understand there's a nice for everything, but i've got a strategy/marketing problem i'd love to get feedback on. I know you should write what turns you on, and young women turn me on, but i'm thinking it would be more profitable to focus on older characters because a) the majority of buyers are women and b) are not in that age group, and i'm doubtful they're into teen girls getting ravished. I can write stories with older characters, should I focus on those?

Do you do it yourself? Do you get a beta? Do you use a platform of some sort?

I kind of want to publish my writing and finally make real money from it. I was trying to do some research on Amazon and while ik my niche has plenty of readers on the internet and there are plenty of books on Amazon, I want to know how well it sells.

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Maybe it's the title, blurb, cover... honestly, don't know. Been reading more in my niche than ever before and picking up on themes and whatnot. Before I kind of just posted stories I wanted to write within the niche. My last one did really well the first few days by comparison. I usually at least get an outright sale when posting a new short but so far haven't gotten any with this latest one.

I liked the story. I feel like there's definitely enough smut in there. And yet it's basically just gone nowhere. It's at least been read in KU a few times over, but that's nothing to write home about.

Anyone else have this happen? Honestly, if anything, it's just driving me to write more and publish more often. It's weird though because my last book did so much better and it was just a story I wanted to write and not necessarily to market even. Maybe I did better on the keywords, blurb, and cover.

Anyways, back to the drawing board I suppose!

I'm working on a story right now and it's getting long. It's more than 20 pages in Microsoft Word and I still haven't included everything I intend on adding.

In other words, my story is already long and still isn't finished. My writing style includes starting with establishing the setting and gradually building up the, uhhh, climax. (For lack of a better word.) I also like to elaborate during the build up.

How do you fellow writers manage this? I've published a few stories on Literotica but not Amazon or anywhere else.