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Predictions for Erotica in 2013
The world didn’t end on December 21. *gasp* I guess I have to actually start paying on all those “No Payment until 2013” furniture loans I took out in 2011! *sigh*
The good news is that no 2012 Apocalypse means there will be a 2013 to look forward to writing in (well, unless we all fall off the fiscal cliff of doom…)
So since I still have my tinfoil hat around, I thought I’d put it on and predict the future of the erotica ebook market in 2013:
1. Translations
I think translations are going to be big in 2013. Some moved very early into the German market (which is currently the largest and is growing by leaps and bounds) but as Amazon adds more International stores and Kobo (who focuses so much on International sales) grows, we’ll see more and more erotica writers looking for people to translate their works to gain foreign sales.
2. Audio
This is another big market for 2013. Now that Audible offers direct access for authors through ACX, we’ll see more and more erotic versions of novels, and even shorter works, being translated into audio.
3. Longer Works and the Return of Erotic Romance
This has already been happening, of course, and you know this if you’ve watched the erotica bestseller lists changing over time. Erotica readers will still enjoy shorts now and again, but they’re going to start looking for longer, more sustainable stuff as time goes on.
4. Tamer Covers
This goes with the former. I hate to say “I told you so,” but when the whole Paypal debacle happened, I warned erotica writers that the over-the-top titles and covers would only go so far for the attention-grab of readers—and would likely attract the wrong kind of attention eventually. Now the trend has shifted into tamer covers, ala 50 Shades of Gray. I think covers will re-cover somewhat this year, and we’ll see less plain ties and feathers and candles and more people, but less-skin is definitely in this year!
5. Growing Niche Markets
Niche markets are going to grow this year. BDSM is an obvious one, but other niche markets will find more readers, as the ebook market grows. Topics like lesbian erotica, BBW, cuckold, group sex, piercings/tattoos and furries are ripe and ready for a breakout audience.
6. Erotica Bookstore Breakout
Someone is going to create it. I don’t know where or how, but I’m sure that an erotic-focused bookstore is going to breakout this year. Maybe more than one. Competition is a good thing!
7. Erotica Serials
Erotica serials are going to grow in popularity, but I have a feeling readers are going to start demanding more story and length in their serials though. I think the era of 5K $2.99 serial pieces is past.
8. Paranormals
These somehow never lose their popularity, and I think 2013 is going to manage to gain some new paranormal ground. I predict some new supernatural sexy creatures this year!
9. Movie Crossovers
Not full “adult” movies (i.e. porn!) but erotic adaptations of books into movies. Yes, ala 50 Shades of Gray (I’m still wondering how they’re going to make that one… not much plot, honestly!) We’ll see some NC-17 rated movies out in 2013, I think!
10. Growing Audience—Fewer Writers
Readers are going to continue to look for erotica, but I think the amount of writers dabbling in erotica is going to wane. Those looking to cash in on the gold rush and recreate the boom of 2012 may find sales less satisfactory than they hoped and look for other revenue streams. I predict the writers who love the genre and are serious about it will prevail, and readers will find and focus on the writers who give them what they’re looking for—good writing, good stories, and hot sex!
Selena Kitt
Erotic Fiction You Won’t Forget
www.selenakitt.com
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The Long-Term Erotica Game
As a erotica writer, are you in the short-term game or the long-term game? Did you know there was even a difference? There is–an important one.
Even before the Fifty Shades phenomenon, writers were discovering that erotica was a gravy train when it came to writing. The fact that the erotica market supports selling shorter works for more money made it very appealing to writers looking to make a decent living. It also seemed “easy,” at least on the surface. You pump out (excuse the pun) 20-30 short titles in a few months, and you’re suddenly in the money, paying your mortgage with your royalties!
Since Fifty Shades, the erotica market has been literally flooded (excuse the pun again) with stories about billionaires doing naughty, wicked things to their secretaries. Mark Lefebvre from Kobo says “enhanced Romance” (which is code for erotica) sells the most on their ereader and when Mark Coker from Smashwords says “Romance is our bestselling genre,” what he means is erotic romance. When Mills and Boon starts holding erotic writing seminars, you know the genre has arrived.
I know several very mainstream writers–names you would easily recognize if I printed them–who have decided to get their hands dirty and supplement their “real” writing in their preferred genre (be it sci-fi, mystery, “regular” romance, horror or whatever…) with some erotica writing. I find it amusing that many of them, back when Paypal wouldn’t pay for that “smutty stuff,” self-righteously deemed it “too bad, so sad.” Some of them went so far as to say, “Serves them right for writing that nasty stuff!” Of course, their livelihood wasn’t at stake then. Now they have a dog in this fight. Now they’re writing erotica right along with everyone else, discovering that Amazon filters “certain” covers and “certain” content from their main search, that Apple bans “certain” titles altogether, that some smaller vendors deem “certain” subjects unacceptable.
Now these writers are discovering how erotica writers really get treated. Everyone reads it but no one wants to admit it. Erotica writers are excluded from certain blogs and groups because of their “content.” Erotica writers are the subject of snide remarks and disdain–yet lo and behold, they’re some of the biggest sellers out there. And now these writers know what it takes to write a good sex scene. Hey, wow, there is really more to it than inserting Tab A into Slot B! At least, there is if you want to sell well, build a brand, and actually make a living at it.
Which brings us back to the long vs. short term erotica game. Many of the people jumping on the erotica bandwagon are in it for the short term. They didn’t start writing it for the love of the genre—they started writing it for the same reason people set out to California in the 1850’s to pan for gold. Short-term erotica writers are looking to cash in, pay off some credit card debt or buy a few new toys, and ride it out until the wave crests and fades away.
Short term erotic writers are watching and following trends. Daddies? I can write about Daddies! Billionaires? I can write about billionaires! Werewolves? I can write werewolves! In fact, I can write about Daddy Billionaire Werewolves! Short-term erotica writers want to make short-term money.
Not that there’s anything wrong with short-term money!
But there are erotica writers who have been doing this for years, who do it because it happens to be the genre they fell in love with (like some writers fall for horror, or thrillers, or romance—it’s just where they “fit”) and it’s the genre they want to write in. These are the writers in the long-term erotica game. We’ve watched the market trend and change. Fifty Shades opened a few more doors for erotica writers, but the basic landscape hasn’t really changed.
The basics are still the same and will always be the same.
**Write a good story.
**Make it hot.
**Write what you love, what turns you on.
**If a certain trend is popular and it appeals to you, then go for it! But if you’re faking it, your readers will know.
**Your characters are real people, and if they don’t act like it, your readers will know.
**If you’re not that into it, your readers will know.
Erotica writers in the long-term game can take advantage of the short-term market, but please, don’t forget to look down the road. This is where you could really hurt yourself if you want to be in this long-term. Those who aren’t in this for the long-haul are near-sighted. Yes, you should pay attention to what they’re doing, but don’t necessarily model yourself after them. They aren’t thinking five, ten, fifteen years ahead.
Remember, if you want to be around and have readers in the future erotica market, you have to build a readership now. If you become some flash-in-the pan writer, spreading yourself thin with a hundred pen names and short, trendy titles with lots of cotton candy fluff but no real meat, your readers will go away dazed with the sugar-rush but ultimately unsatisfied. No one can live on cotton candy forever.
Writing what you love in any genre is important. Erotica is no different. Readers aren’t stupid, and they’re not reading erotica and erotic romance for any other reason than they read mystery or horror. They want something specific, and they want a writer to give that to them. They develop a relationship with the authors they love. Short-term erotica writers aren’t going to build that kind of reader base.
Long-term erotica writers will still be here, still writing, after Fifty Shades has trended and gone. And their readers will remember them and continue to seek them out. Those in the short-term game will have either moved back into their own “real” genres, or they will have found that writing erotica isn’t bringing them the cash it once did, and decide to do something else.
Those who love it, who are in for the long game, will still be doing it. They will be the writers of erotica’s future–as long as they remember not to fall into short-term traps.
Selena Kitt
Erotic Fiction You Won’t Forget
www.selenakitt.com
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35 Personal Turn-Ons
One of the questions I get asked most by readers is: What turns you on?
Well, if you’ve read my fiction, you know what turns me on! I rarely write something that isn’t a personal turn-on for me. But since I get asked so often, I thought it would be fun to make a little list of some of the things that do it for me. So here we go:
1. Chocolate – milk or dark, melted or solid, like a sweet, luscious orgasm exploding in my mouth…
2. The fantasy of him hiring a prostitute and bringing her home – watching them have sex while I hide in the closet – and then later come out to join them.
3. Piercings – so sexy – in the tongue, the eyebrow, the nose… even more sexy in the nipples… or the labia… or the clit… or the foreskin…
4. Introducing a young virgin to sex – teaching him how to pleasure a woman, how to touch her, kiss her, lick her, fuck her…
5. Having makeup sex – coming together after the heat of an argument, the fire still burning between us, feeling the energy surge as our bodies melt together.
6. Role playing the rich lady and the chauffeur – Jeeves, stop the car. Yes Ma’am. Good. Now come back here for a moment. Yes, Ma’am. I told you about leaving these here, didn’t I? Yes Ma’am. Come take your punishment. Yes Ma’am …
7. Blindfolding him, tying his arms to the bedposts, and doing whatever I want.
8. The thought of giving head to a guy with a cock piercing – in my fantasies, he’s always big, bald and heavily tattooed…
9. When he finds my g-spot with his fingers while he’s licking my clit, alternately rubbing… and licking… and rubbing… and licking…
10. Meeting him at the door wearing just one of his white button down dress shirts and nothing else.
11. When he lays back and makes me do all the work and just enjoys the ride
12. When he’s taking me from behind and he spreads my ass with his hands, and I know he’s watching himself fuck me, the way my asshole opens a little for him, the wet slide of his cock into my pussy…
13. The thought of going to a strip club with him and getting a lap dance for the both of us. We might not be able to touch her – but we can touch each other!
14. Four poster beds – with solid posts I can be tied up to. Just the sight of one makes my knees weak and my pussy wet.
15. Role playing prostitute and client – Hey baby, looking for a good time? Sure, you want a ride? Oh boy, do I. Have anything yummy for me to ride on? Sure, baby, hop on in and I’ll show you…
16. The thought of seducing another woman to our bed and surprising him with her one afternoon. Hi honey, welcome home… this is Cindy… doesn’t she have the prettiest pussy you’ve ever seen? It’s sweet as can be… come here and have some…
17. Fantasy of hiding under his desk and giving him a blowjob while he’s working, him trying to keep a straight face with a client across the way as I quietly lick and suck his cock…
18. Fantasy of being “played for” in a pool game – winner gets me on the pool table
19. When he pulls his jeans down and I can see the perfect outline of his cock through his briefs, hard and straining against the material. Makes my mouth water.
20. When I’m just about to come, seconds from orgasm, and he starts flicking his tongue fast along the length of my clitoris, back and forth. Drives me wild!
21. When he makes me undress for him… real slow… and caresses every inch of me with his eyes once I’m standing naked in front of him. Then he takes his fingertips and holds them … just… above my skin… almost touching… but not… quite… god, that makes me so hot
22 .The incredible heat radiating from between a woman’s legs when you rest your cheek against her bare thigh and look at the open, waiting wetness of her pussy…
23. Role playing doctor and patient – when I’m the doctor and he’s the patient. “I think we need to alleviate some of this pressure Mr. Jones… if I use my hand like this… just up and down like this… we might be able to help you out with this little problem you have here…”
24. I love playing the no-hands game during sex… we can explore each other using anything else, tongue, lips, nose, hair, knees, toes, anything but our hands… it gets awfully… creative!
25. I love when he talks to me while he’s licking my pussy – when he stops to tell me what a hot little kitty I have… how hard it makes him to taste me… and the vibrations from his voice make me crazy!
26. Covering every inch of myself in baby oil, then climbing on top of him and giving him a massage – no hands. Just my slick, oiled up body rubbing against his over and over.
27. When I’m standing in front of him, and he slides his fingers inside of me… and then draws me slowly toward him… so he can lightly nibble on and bite my nipples while fingering my pussy.
28. Wearing a loooong string of pearls – and nothing else – to bed… and then lubing them up and wrapping them around his cock, stroking them up and down… it drives him crazy!
29. Roleplaying jailer and prisoner. You don’t understand, Warden, I need to make a phone call. I’ll do anything. And I mean anything…
30. Putting my legs up over his shoulders when he’s on top. I can feel him s much more that way – so much thicker and harder as he drives into my pussy…
31. When he’s going along, fucking me good and hard, and then he stops… just stops… and starts again realllllllllllly slowwwww again for a few minutes, making me beg and beg for more… god, please, baby, don’t tease me, give me that hard cock…
32. When I’m breastfeeding and my breasts are full of milk – he loves sucking and licking them, and especially loves it when I’m on top riding him and start to come – my nipples leak milk all over my belly…
33. Sitting on top of him and pressing his cock against his belly so I can sliiiiide up and down the shaft – not letting him inside me – just rubbing my wet pussy and especially my hard little clit over his cock again… and again… and again… I come so hard that way… and sometimes, so does he!
34. Going down on him while he’s still soft – I love the thought that I can make him hard with just a few flicks and twists of my hot, wet little tongue. I LOVE making him hard in my mouth.
35. Driving him wild by pressing my breasts into his back when we’re out at a crowded bar. Then I whisper in his ear, ‘God, I want you.’ No surprise…we’re home in minutes!
Selena Kitt
Erotic Fiction You Won’t Forget
www.selenakitt.com
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