PSA: Barnes and Noble has made keywords and publisher names unsearchable on their site. I hate to be the bearer of bad news twice in a week, but here we go again. This time it’s the folks over at Barnes and Noble. I’ve had reports (that I’ve now verified) that erotic keywords are being severely restricted. A search for “menage” comes… Read More
Pornocalypse 2015 is Upon Us!
PSA: For those authors who have yet to discover it – Amazon is currently going through and classifying a great deal of romance books as erotica. Pornocalypse 2015 has begun… How do I know this? Because they shunted nearly 3/4 of Excessica’s catalog into erotica. All of a sudden my author rank rose to #2 in erotica – sounds great,… Read More
STEPping Out: Amazon’s Familiar Double Standard. Again. Still.
Five months ago, I did a blog post about Stepbrother Dearest – the first stepbrother book that broke the pseudoincest barrier, pushing into romance. At the time, I lamented the fact that as an erotica author, Amazon wouldn’t allow me to use the word “stepbrother.” Not in my title, not in my blurb, not anywhere (except maybe inside the book,… Read More
New Re-Branded Titles from Selena Kitt
Re-Covered Re-Titled & on SALE One Second Chance GAY MALE EROTIC ROMANCE EPIC AWARD WINNER (formerly titled “Second Chance”) Power Exchange BDSM EROTICA (formerly titled “The Flintstone Experiment”) Magical Meetings PARANORMAL EROTICA Can’t Walk Away (formerly titled “I’ll Be Your Superman“) Backroads Cop DUBCON EROTICA (formerly titled “On Cherry Hill”) His Shaved MILF INTERRACIAL CUB/COUGAR EROTICA (formerly titled “Shorn”) Behind… Read More
Excitica – New Erotica/Romance Storefront – Selena Kitt
EXCITICA www.excitica.com After a rocky start in March of 2014, we’ve now opened our doors again with a fully functioning web site that will ultimately become THE home for erotica and erotic romance! EXCITICA is run by Selena Kitt (that’s me!) New York Times bestselling and award winning author of erotica and erotic romance fiction with over one million authored books… Read More
Hachette Authors Cry Censorship – Welcome to My World!
Hachette authors are crying “censorship!” Ursula K. Le Guin has been quoted as saying, “We’re talking about censorship: deliberately making a book hard or impossible to get, ‘disappearing’ an author.” Welcome to my world, Ms. Le Guin. Were you among the authors who, years ago when Amazon started banning erotica, slapping on the adult filter, making it generally difficult to… Read More
Amazon’s Continued Double Standard – About What You’d Expect
If you’re an erotica writer, you know that Amazon has a double standard. If you publish a title and put it into the “erotica” category, there are certain things that aren’t allowed in the title or on blurb. But if you put that same title and blurb into the “romance” category, it’s fine. Half-naked couples in a hot, torrid embrace… Read More
Banned (Erotic) Book Week 2014
It’s “banned books week” so of course I’m going to talk about banned books. Specifically, banned erotic books, since, that genre happens to be my bread and butter. Recently, Michelle Keep wrote a scathing (and oh-so-accurate) commentary about Amazon’s hypocritical stance on erotica. They advertised “banned books” in a public email, but behind the scenes, they continue to suppress erotica… Read More
Corporate Censorship: Amazon Targets Dark Erotic Romance & BDSM
Heads up authors: Amazon is targeting erotica again. This time, it’s “Dark Erotic Romance” (read: DubCon and NonCon) and BDSM. I hate to say I told you so – but I told you so. I said, back when Amazon caved and stopped carrying the ped0phile’s guide, that we were heading down a slippery slope. I said it again when my… Read More
Publishers Weekly: Indie Authors Deliver Erotica
Great article from Publisher’s Weekly, quoting yours truly, about Indie writers rocking the erotica world! Thank you, Allison Schiff, for writing such a sex-positive and erotica-positive article! And go go erotica authors! 😀 Some highlights: “Basically, they’re hiding our books on their site and it’s becoming harder and harder to find our audience,” says Kitt, whose incest-themed books were banned from… Read More
Corporate Censorship: Keeping Your Erotic Books Off Retailer Hit Lists
Not surprisingly, this is a topic I’ve talked about before, but I just wrote up a new guideline for my Excessica authors (now that we’re taking new submissions and starting to distribute boxed sets) and realized–the rules have changed again. So I thought I would create another post letting you all know what (unofficial) rules still seem in place and others… Read More
Excitica – New Erotica and Erotic Romance Distributor!
2013 was a hella year for erotica. And not always in such a good way. While it gave us some amazing new authors contributing to the genre, it brought a storm of corporate censorship along with it. The floodgates to erotica and erotic romance really opened in 2011 with the publication of the previously-published-as Twilight fanfiction instant phenom Fifty Shades… Read More