Click here for some hot heroes, strong heroines, smutty sex, and a happily ever after.
Girls, grab your batteries!
You won’t be able to slap that sappy smile off your face.
An erotic novella with heart!
This story is told from a dual POV.
Four years ago, she lost her virginity to her best friend.
What happened to her best friend? He skipped town and ghosted her.
What happened to her? She had his baby.
After four years in the military, Cody has returned to town, and Nina wants nothing to do with him. Unfortunately, that proves hard for her to accomplish since they’re both working at the same bar, and Cody is trying his best to break down her defenses.
What if Cody had a good reason for leaving? Can he convince her to give him a second chance? Will Nina tell Cody about their daughter? If she does, will he be able to forgive her for not telling him she had his baby?
This story features graphic depictions of explicit sexual acts and is intended for 18+ readers only. All characters depicted are over the age of 18.
Be prepared for dirty words and even dirtier sex. Enter at your own risk.
Two best friends , one night change everything Cody left to join army without telling Nina not knowing he he left something behind , four years later Cody back but is he back for good or will Nina heart get broken and how will be react to the secret Nina kept from him , a very good read
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There are numerous publishing formats available these days.
However, Amazon is still king, and it
is easy to publish on Amazon. In the
past, you needed a mobi file to upload a manuscript to Amazon, but now just about any type of document will work.
Kindle Create
Even though you can upload a .doc file or even a .pdf, I prefer to use Kindle Create, which is a free program that you can download to your computer. The program allows you to see what your book will look like on different types of reading devices (phone, tablet, and computer), click on what your book looks like, and click on the table of contents. Kindle Create also prepares a polished looking document.
Calibre
Another program that is free to download on your computer is Calibre. I also use this program at times to produce a mobi or pdf file. If your document is extremely large, then Calibre is a better choice than Kindle Create which tends to produce an error message when working with large files.
Amazon Author Account
Once you’ve prepared your document for download, you will need an Amazon Author Account. It isn’t complicated to open an author account. After following the steps as set out by Amazon, you will be directed to your bookshelf.
Bookshelf
Your Amazon Bookshelf will allow you to create a new eBook. There are several different functions on the Amazon eBook publication site. However, I will only detail the aspects that you must include to have your book published. You will need the following things identified before publishing – book title, subtitle (if necessary), author name.
The next section that you need to have prepared is a book description. This is the snippet that will be visible to readers searching for a book to download. As a result, you should write something that summaries your book and would entice someone to want to download or purchase the document. I would recommend looking at book descriptions for other books in your chosen genre to see what they have listed.
About the Author
Many people like to include an about the author section in the book description. This is a small snippet of information that lets people know a little bit about you. It is not necessary, but it can help people connect with you.
Keywords
Another section on the Amazon publishing program is the keyword section. These words are to be reflective of the content of your books but are not a part of your book’s title or category.
Categories
You can choose two categories for your books to be found in. The two main categories for erotica are erotica and erotic romance. There are also other potential categories that you can have your book added to. However, you will need to contact Amazon KDP Customer Service.
Copyright
Before you can scroll down to the bottom and save your information, you need to indicate whether you own the copyright for the manuscript. This should be answered as yes.
Ready to Publish
The next section asks whether you are ready to publish or set for pre-release. If you are prepared to publish, then you need to “click” the ready to publish button and save the information.
Upload Manuscript
Now, it is time to upload your manuscript. Here you will upload whatever format you’ve chosen for your book. Again, you can upload numerous different types of documents to Amazon.
Upload or Create Cover
Next, you will upload or create your own book cover. Unless you know what you’re doing, you should have a cover made for you.
Preview
Once you’ve uploaded your manuscript and your book cover, you will have the option of previewing your book. You can scroll through the book and look at each page to see if there are any errors. Making changes prior to publishing is important.
If everything looks good, then you are ready to move to the
next section. The bottom of the page has an ISBN section, but you don’t need to
add anything there. Instead, scroll to the bottom of the page and hit save and
continue.
KDP Select
If you want to have your book available for Kindle Unlimited (KU) subscribers and receive money for pages read and participate in free or countdown promotions, then you must “click” yes. There isn’t a lot of money in KU pages read, but it is worth it for erotica. A lot of people who read erotica subscribe to this service.
Pricing
In the past, an erotic short story would typically go for $2.99. That is not always the case now. You will still get pages read, but you might not get as many sales at that price point; unless you are a top known author. As a result, you might be better off putting your book in for the 30% plan and price your book at $.99. It isn’t much per book, but you are more likely to get sales at this price point.
Other Sections
Again, there are other sections, but these are the necessary ones. Now, you’re ready to scroll down and “click” publish. Yes!
In the next 24 to 72 hours, your book will be available for
purchase, and you are a published erotica writer.
To learn more about each of these sections, click on the book below and write your first erotic short story!
This is an older
man, brother’s best friend/younger woman erotic short story!
Three years
before, she fell for her brother’s best friend from high school. She was only
16 and he was 23. Due to her age, he was unwilling to pursue anything more than
a friendship with her.
Angie’s brother,
Niles, is getting married and Jeremy is back in town. What happens when they
get put in the same place now that she’s of age? Will she lose her virginity to
a one-night stand? Or, has Jeremy changed his ways?
What happens
when a sweet, innocent girl meets up in a closet with a sexy biker?
This story
features graphic depictions of explicit sexual acts and is intended for 18+
readers only. All characters depicted are over the age of 18.
Be prepared for
dirty words and even dirtier sex. Enter at your own risk.
Click here for some hot heroes, strong heroines, smutty sex, and a happily ever after.
Girls, grab your batteries!
You won’t be able to slap that sappy smile off your face.
An erotic short
story with heart!
This story is
told from the POV of the male hero.
** Warning: This book contains the same
scenes as the original story “Behind Closed Doors”, so don’t get your panties
in a bunch over the same scenes. However, there will be plenty inside that gets
you hot and bothered. **
Have you been dying to hear Tad’s side of the
story? Now’s your chance!
He’s a
prosecutor eighteen years older than his new intern. She’s the daughter of a
judge, who happens to be one of his long-time friends.
Tad has had a
crush on Skye for four years, but there is no way she’s interested in him. Or,
is there? Even if she is interested, what would be the fallout if they succumb to
their desires?
Will their
relationship remain behind closed doors?
This story
features graphic depictions of explicit sexual acts and is intended for 18+
readers only. All characters depicted are over the age of 18.
Be prepared for
dirty words and even dirtier sex. Enter at your own risk.
When preparing a manuscript for publishing, several
components need to be included. In this chapter, I’ll explore those required
components.
Book Title
You will need to identify a book title that is the appropriate fit for your manuscript. Think of something that is a catchphrase from the book or summarizes the theme of the book. Don’t get too cute. People haven’t read the book yet, so they aren’t going to get adorable or quirky titles that you think are funny.
Book Cover
When designing a book cover, you should scan through books in your genre. Are other authors using faces? Bodies? Couples? Clothed or unclothed models? Symbols? Vector images? Dark backgrounds? Light backgrounds?
Once you’ve identified a feel that fits with your genre,
then consider how you could use that concept with your book cover. If you are
comfortable with designing your own book covers, then there are YouTube videos and programs that can
easily be used to make your own covers and save you money.
If you are uncomfortable with designing your own covers,
there are people on Fiverr that can
do a decent job with designing covers. Or there are numerous sites available
that sell pre-made covers. However, those take forever to go through and may
not fit your book perfectly. I prefer to find a stock image that matches my
book and have a Fiverr designer to make
my covers. The most important thing is that for erotic short stories, I would
not spend a large sum of money for a top book cover designer. It isn’t
necessary.
When selecting the picture for your book cover, it is recommended that you spend a little extra money and get a stock photo plan. There are a wider variety of images to choose from and the images are better quality. Not to mention, you will have less likelihood of ten other people in your genre using the same image. With free photos, you will find numerous people having used the same models for their covers.
Title Page
On the title page, you will need to type the title of your book, author name, and year of publication.
Publisher’s Page
If you are your own publisher, you can put down the same information as the title page and yourself as the publisher. Additionally, you can make your own publishing company name if you would like to have a more professional look for your book.
Copyright Page
All professional quality books should include a copyright page. This page directs the reader not to copy, duplicate, or use your property as their own. There are examples of copyright pages online, or you can have an attorney draft one for you.
Table of Contents
If you are using a Microsoft Word document, you can use headings for your chapters to develop hyperlinks. These hyperlinks will allow your reader to click on the different chapters or sections to switch to that location in your book.
This can be helpful if the reader wants to go back to a
specific area in your book and re-read the information. More importantly is if
they’re going to your author page for your contact information or the review
page to leave you a book review. The table of content’s function is under the
references tab of a word program.
Excerpt
Next, you will want to include a page with your book excerpt. The book excerpt should be approximately two to three paragraphs of your story where the action or intensity is beginning to heat up between your characters.
This passage should entice the reader to want more. If you
publish on Amazon, a reader can
download a “free” sample of your book or click on the “look inside” feature.
When a reader gets this free portion of your book, the excerpt should be a part
of that sample. By including a tantalizing excerpt, you can pique the reader’s
interest and get a sale.
Story
Now’s the place for the good stuff. Your manuscript should go here. Each chapter should have at least the “number” of the chapter and “chapter” listed at the top of the page. After these words are typed, then you need to “click” on the “heading 1” tab on the home page, if using Microsoft Word. This allows the chapter to be a hyperlink and can be automatically added to the table of contents once the book is complete.
About the Author
After the conclusion of the book, you should add a section about the author. This doesn’t need to be extravagant. A small blurb about you and how to contact you is sufficed.
Book Review
The last thing that must be included in your book is a request for a book review. As Indie authors, we need book reviews like drug addicts needs their fix. Without social proof that a book is good, there won’t be any sales. Moreover, please review the books of your favorite Indie authors. They’ll love you for it.
Event those negative reviews can be helpful. They can
assist you in improving your future writings, give advice on how to update the
current work and re-publish, or provide insight to another author hoping to
avoid the same pitfalls. Most importantly, it let’s future readers know what to
expect and how to spend their money and time wisely. Because we know both money
and time are the most essential commodities.
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Click here for some hot heroes, strong heroines, smutty sex, and a happily ever after.
Girls, grab your batteries!
You won’t be able to slap that sappy smile off your face.
An erotic short story with heart!
She’s the daughter of a judge with a crush on the prosecutor she’s interning for. He’s eighteen years older and friends with her father.
Skye has had a crush on Tad for eight years. After saving herself all these years, she’s ready to submit to her man. Tad is worried that her father would flip out and the reporters would have a field day if he acted on his desires. Will Skye be able to convince Tad that she only wants him to fulfill her desires? And, what happens if he does?
Will their relationship remain behind closed doors?
This story features graphic depictions of explicit sexual acts and is intended for 18+ readers only. All characters depicted are over the age of 18.
Be prepared for dirty words and even dirtier sex. Enter at your own risk.
When I began writing years ago, I was a pantster. A pantster
is someone who writes by the seat of their pants. They don’t have an overall
plan for their book and let the characters lead them where they want to go.
Creative Flow
At that point in my career, I felt that plotting, or writing an outline, would hurt my creative flow. But by not writing an overview, I was causing myself problems in the long run. Without an outline, I got lost in the story. I didn’t have proper character development and never had any idea how long the book was going to be. For a short story, this might not be a huge deal, but for a novel, it meant I had a lot of work to do during my second draft.
No Growth
Sadly, without an outline, you can get to the end of a manuscript, and your characters have had zero growth That is not a fulfilling novel for people to read. Your book needs action, conversations, and growth.
Chapter Totals and Wordcount
Now, I don’t write anything without an outline. It is much easier to keep the chapter and wordcount similar from book to book. Furthermore, I can decide on the story arch before I begin writing. It makes the process of storytelling less daunting. All you must do is finish one chapter. Then, once that chapter is fully fleshed out, you can move on to the next section.
Why People Give Up
I think one of the reasons that people give up on writing is because their characters get lost or start doing something else. And when your characters go off script, you have a bunch of work to do to make what you’ve already written flow with these new actions. This results in massive rewrites or tossing the manuscript in the trash.
Stop the Overwhelm
On the other hand, when you have an outline to go by and know what each chapter should include, it makes writing easy. My chapter summaries do not include everything that’s going to happen. Instead, I have a general idea of what is going to occur and what the characters are supposed to be feeling and/or doing. An outline keeps the story focused, your characters making progress, and allows you to break free from the overwhelm.
With a short story, there isn’t as much anxiety involved
due to the concise word count. However, I still outline all my books. Right
now, I have outlines for ten short stories and eight contemporary romance
novels. I don’t have to stress about what to write when I finish a project.
Additionally, when my mind is toast, but I still want to do something
productive, I write an outline for another book.
Benefits of Outlines for Short Stories
Why would I recommend that you write an outline for a short story? An overview easily keeps your word count in mind with a short story. With a short story, your goal is to be under 7,500 words. If you don’t have an outline, you may be done way too soon and nothing, but sex has happened, or you might end up with a rambling 15,000 short story with not enough plot to be a novella.
Moreover, you want to ensure that your short story contains
a plot and character development. With an outline, you can explore your theme,
character traits, and what you want your book to achieve.
Outlines don’t have to be extensive. However, if you are comfortable
with doing a fully explored outline, you may have scene description, dialogue,
and character development plotted out. You don’t have to be handcuffed to your summary.
If your characters start behaving in unusual ways – go with it.
With every experience we have in life, we continue to
evolve. What sounded like a great idea several months ago, may not work
anymore. Whenever your plot begins to deviate, you can update your outline, or
consider if your outline is still plausible with adjustments made as you work.
Click on the book below to learn all you need to know to write your first erotic short story!
Click here for some hot heroes, strong heroines, smutty sex, and a happily ever after.
Girls, grab your batteries!
You won’t be able to slap that sappy smile off your face.
An erotic short story with heart!
** Warning: This book contains the same scenes as the original story “Wait for Me”, so don’t get your panties in a bunch over the same scenes. However, there will be plenty inside that gets you hot and bothered. **
Have you been dying to hear Nash’s side of the story? Now’s your chance!
She’s an employment recruiter who’s willing to sacrifice her reputation for her newest client. He’s trying to clear his criminal record.
Hilary sees Nash as more than an ex con and is willing to go out on a limb to get him a job, but at what cost? Nash is determined to overcome his past but needs six months to get his shit straightened out. Will Hilary wait for Nash? What happens if they don’t wait? And, can they overcome a lie that Hilary told to help Nash out?
This story features graphic depictions of explicit sexual acts and is intended for 18+ readers only. All characters depicted are over the age of 18.
Be prepared for dirty words and even dirtier sex. Enter at your own risk.
There are many different types of erotica. There is
straight, anal, oral, sex toys, virgin, daddy, older woman/younger man, bondage,
gay, ménage, harem, reverse harem, kidnapping, and countless other categories
of erotic stories. The scenarios are endless once you start thinking about
them.
However, if you did your background work, like you were
supposed to, you should know what you won’t do and stick with it. You will feel
better about yourself in the morning. No one wants to do that walk of shame at
3 a.m.
In my opinion, there are five main types of erotic stories.
Happily Ever After
The first type is happily ever after. This is the type of book that I focus on. I will always prefer the “ah” factor over the “shock and ah” factor. With a happily ever after book, whatever character configuration you’ve dreamed up, the characters will fall in love and ride off into the sunset together – unless they’re vampires and then you’d better keep them in the moonlight.
Happy for Now
Happy for now is the next type of erotic story. This storyline is where the characters are content with the sex acts that they’ve engaged in, but there is no long-term commitment desired or achieved.
Serials
The next type of erotic short story is the serial. These stories are those where the characters complete “episodes” in a longer story arch. They are more like television shows where the same characters participate in multiple sequential books.
Prequels
Another type of erotic short story is the prequel. People hate prequels unless they know about it ahead of time. Don’t trick people into reading a short story to get another part of the story later. It’s rude and will leave you with no fanbase.
Fetishes
The last category is fetishes. These are the bizarre types of situations that some people find erotic. Examples of these situations include – animals, aliens, urinating, defecating, incest, dressing up as animals, dressing up as babies, pregnancy, orgies, bondage, slavery, and kidnapping to name several.
Now, this does not mean that a specific kink can’t be used
in a different type of erotic story and turn into a happily ever after. For
example, bondage is one of the most popular kinds of fetishes that has been seen
in happily ever afters in recent years. However, I don’t want to be reading a
happily ever after where the dude is wearing a diaper and sucking on a bottle
or the gal for that matter. Not going to happen.
To further clarify, if the sole purpose of the short story is to focus on the kink and has no romance or character development, then the goal of the book is the fetish. And, to me, most of those books are kind of cringeworthy.
Which Will You Choose?
So, what will be your focus? Will you choose one type of storyline or mix and match? The only problem with changing from happily ever after to pure fetish is that your fanbase can get angry and leave nasty reviews. Granted, people don’t leave a lot of reviews, but if they are mad enough, they will.
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Writing erotic novellas or novels is not something I’ve
done yet. That isn’t to say that I won’t because it is a possibility in the
future. However, there are several reasons why I haven’t written a more
extended piece yet.
Short Story Fun
I’ve discovered the fun of writing short stories, and they
are quick and to the point. You don’t have to worry about as much character
growth, angst, or story arch. With a short story, the more straightforward –
the better.
Quantity – I could write a bunch, upwards of seventy-five
to one hundred, of them puppies in one year versus five tops if I wrote full-length
novels.
Accomplishment – The sense of accomplishment from writing
so many books in one year is fantastic. So many people get stuck writing a
novel and never publish the damn thing. I know. It took me twelve years to
publish my first contemporary romance and twelve days to post my first erotic
short story. There is nothing like the sense of accomplishment of producing
numerous works and getting them out there to others to read.
Satisfied Readers – With a short story, the highest
compliment you can get is that they wished there was more to the book. Or that
they didn’t want it to end. With a novel, you might hear that you should have
cut a bunch of it out because it was too dull.
Quick Reads – People don’t have a lot of time anymore.
There is so much to do. Netflix, Hulu, cable, kids, work, hobbies, and
spouses. With a short story, they can get more bang for their time. Whatever
bang that is. Fifteen to thirty minutes may be all a busy mom has before bed.
A novel might take her a week to read, and she won’t get
the full enjoyment because she had to put it down twenty times.
Erotic Novellas and Novels
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a massive market for erotic
novellas or novels because there is.
Strength of Storyline – However, you need to make sure that
you have strongly developed characters, a good storyline, growth of the
characters, and an attention-grabbing plot outside of the sex scenes. That can
be a lot of work when you’re first starting out.
If you choose to write an erotic novel, I recommend you
hire a developmental editor to point out the weak areas of your manuscript. You
can be too close to your work to see the forest for the trees. I have a
wonderful developmental editor for my contemporary novels. When I can’t figure
out why in the hell my hero is doing what he’s doing, she can figure it out for
me. Thank God!
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