Regarding your question about royalty rate:

Without seeing a screenshot I'm not certain what you're referring to. If you choose 70% rate with a minimum of 2.99 sale then you get like $1.97 or something per sale. Something like that. I'm not sure what the report you're looking at is. Sometimes sales are delayed, so it'll register a "sale" but not the amount earned right away.

It is so addicting to stare at sales. I recommend the chrome browser plugin "Book Report." You won't see it deposited into your account until 60 days later though.

The dashboard isn't great for reporting, and is very limited and not easy to navigate. Use "Book Report."

I've read a good portion; just got to the part with George and Chantel visit the shoe store. I haven't seen anything bad or wrong with your writing. I feel that it flows nice, and has a good tone to it. Some of the tense, I personally would change, like "chantel is beautiful." I tend to write in past tense. "Chantel was beautiful" like the speaker writing the words is telling a story from the past. Personal preference though.

I have two recommendations for you if you want them:

1. Write more. You'll get better by virtue of doing it. The only cure for better writing is to write write write write write. Avoid the trap of agonizing over your quality ad nauseum. Pump it out, write, write, edit, yes, but get it out there. You'll get better and better the more you do it and will require less focus on the minutia. WE want everything to be perfect, but statistics say that our erotica isn't going to break any records and get wide acclaim. Avoid spelling errors, or glaring wrong words, but publish that book quick.

2. Read more books, then emulate them in your writing. I'm particularly bad at this. I don't read enough. I'm annoyed by most erotica and romance. I get bothered by the crappy story telling and the hyper aggressive dominance without attention to emotions. Though, I've been reading enough lately that my prose has improved. I'm doing less play-by-play and getting better at story telling; setting the scene, expressing emotions instead of cock size, and pussy sheen.

Do those two things, and the anxiety over high quality writing fades. Some will be duds, others wild success. Keep it going.

Super happy for you! Publishing is a huge accomplishment! Love the cover. Grammerly is cool Good choice. I've used it in the past too. I found it an immense help getting rid of adverbs (-ly), and passive language. Got rid of run-on sentences too. Maybe I should use it again.

@dinavice is great too! I'm so glad to hear she helped you too! I just bought/KU'd her book too.

Hey, why no KU?