I’ve been quiet about Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited Program, and self-publishing in general, for several years. Part of me just gave up. (It really does feel good when you stop banging your head against a wall!) I’m an old cynic about Amazon now, I guess. They have been squeezing authors, paying us less and less, since the program started. Personally, I’ve… Read More
ScAmazon 2 – Mammoth Consequences: The Digital Sweatshop
About a month ago, I did a post about the scams that are rocking the self-publishing world on Amazon. I pointed to the scam Kindle internet marketing course that Dave Koziel was doing, and the 15-year-old German kid who made 130K using his methods. Today, I saw a video from Dave Koziel on YouTube. He apparently felt it necessary to… Read More
SCAMAZON – Amazon “Kindle Unlimited” Scammers Netting Millions
How are scammers making millions off Amazon? (And off any author enrolled in Amazon’s KDP Select program?) It’s easy. So say digital entrepreneurs scammers like Dave Koziel – who admits to outsourcing his material, he’s not an actual writer or anything. You see, all you have to do it just upload “books” stuffed to the gills with anything, even unrelated… Read More
Erotica Authors Pull-Out on Amazon KU – Time to Come To The Dark Side!
Erotica authors were impatiently waiting for July 1, for a look at the new dashboard and the opportunity for a glimpse into the Bezos crystal ball at what they might be paid for the month of July, when the Kindle Unlimited changes took place. Looks like the numbers are (kind of) in… and the outlook is rather dismal. Erotica shorts… 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
Amazon at it Again – Blocking Pseudoincest and Monster Sex!
Amazon is at it again. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised anymore when Amazon decides to change the rules of publishing erotica on their site, but there are days when I feel like my career in this genre is a little bit like playing Calvinball. (Anyone else remember Calvin and Hobbes?) The only rules are the ones Amazon makes up… Read More
Survival Tips for the Pornocalypse 2 (Erotica Readers Unite!)
Last week I wrote about Amazon’s latest push to get erotica out of the sight (and presumably out of the minds) of readers. But while this Pornocalypse continues, and I’ve given writers tips on how to survive Amazon’s jackboot on the throat of their genre, I now want to give erotica readers hope for their reading future! Look, I hate… Read More
Survival Tips for the Pornocalypse (Erotica Writers Get Armed and Ready!)
The Pornocalypse has begun. Amazon continues filtering erotica out of their All Department Search in large numbers. Don’t stick your head in the sand and think it’s going to all go away. By then, it may be too late. It’s time for you, as an erotica writer, to take action. (And erotica readers, if you stumbled across this, you too!)… Read More