She’s caught between two worlds. Her blood could be her demise. To save her life, will she choose to love the coven or the pack? Meredith Kilpatrick doesn’t have much time left. With a deadly curse running through her veins, she wants nothing more than to die in the arms of Vampire King Jeremy Hunter. But when her love refuses… Read More
Amazon Scammers Take Over Kindle Unlimited – Game Over for Real Authors?
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
NEW RELEASE – Stepbrother Studs Tristan
Stepbrother Studs Tristan Available NOW — $0.99 for a limited time! Amazon When Lyla’s sexy, brilliant stepbrother, Tristan, suits up and strides into a courtroom, everyone takes notice. He’s an animal, tearing up witnesses, convincing juries of his clients’ innocence with one cock of his sexy eyebrow, and making the D.A. shake in his loafers when Tristan’s on the case. No one knows her stepbrother’s raw, instinctual prowess better than… 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
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
Corporate Fail
There’s been a lot posted about the corporations behind book selling lately, and to me, it just smells like a whole lot of “fail.” This is what happens when corporations gain so much power that people forget that corporations aren’t really “people.” Corporations are FOR people. They serve people. They consist OF people – the people who work at them,… 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
Ch-Ch-Ch Changes!
I met another writer today. It’s funny how many people reveal that they are would-be authors, once I tell them that I write for a living! This particular writer is a financial planner by day (which was the service we were seeking from her) but a young-adult fiction writer by night. When she heard my tale of publishing success and… Read More
Amazon in the Book Banning Business
On December 9, 2010, I was contacted by CreateSpace (Amazon’s Print on Demand service) who publishes my print books. They informed me that my title, Back to the Garden, had been removed for violating their “content guidelines.” When I consulted their guidelines I found them so vague as to be useless—were they saying my content was illegal? Public domain? Stolen?… Read More