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
OPEN CALL for Submissions: Excite Spice Boxed Sets (Round 2)
OPEN CALL! Excite Spice has over 10,000 subscribers now and we continue to grow at a steady rate. We’ve found some of our best advertisement has been the availability of new boxed sets on Amazon for readers to discover. To that end, we’re putting out an open call for stories to include in boxed sets that will be used to draw… 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
NEW INFORMATION: The New Kindle Unlimited – What It Means For Authors and Readers
I’m writing this as an ADDENDUM to clarify information in my blog post: The New Kindle Unlimited – What It Means For Authors and Readers! After getting such conflicting information about whether or not we were going to get just the metric, “borrowed pages read” replacing the number currently in the “borrows” column, or whether or not we were going to… Read More
Amazon’s Midnight Booty Call to KDP Authors – Are You Amazon’s Bitch?
As an erotica author, every time I get a letter from Amazon’s KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) in my inbox, I have a brief moment of panic. If you’re a self-published erotica writer, I’m sure you know the feeling. When erotica authors get notices from KDP, it’s usually the Amazon Book Team writing to tell you to bend over, because they’re… Read More
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… 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
2009 Eppie Finalists
Thought I’d brag a little (again) about the fact that two of eXcessica’s books have been judged as 2009 EPPIE FINALISTS! I’m so proud I could bust-a-button. 🙂 This is the 8th year of the Eppies, and it has become a rather prestigious award in the e-publishing world. From the EPIC (Electronically Published Internet Connection) site: “The EPPIE Awards have… Read More