This last week has been somewhat productive. I published two books in the last 7-10 days. To my great misfortune and terrible annoyance I only sold two copies of my latest books.
There is nothing worse than slaving over 60,000 words and not having a single person buy it. For truth it is my own fault. I should be doing more market research with which niches I should be writing in. I should look for places that provide a kink.
I'm writing my own kinks now. I'm writing my own desires, not so much a profitable one. My writing is for me, and not for anyone else. It is a labor of love, not an endeavor for profit.
My dream is to do what I love and get paid for it.
My latest book, "The Neighbor's Backdoor Deal" was put in the adult dungeon. Again, the capricious and random hand of amazon's kindle direct publishing adult filtering crashes down. There was no reason for the "adult" filter to be in place. Why? No explanation.
So i changed one character of the description. I changed Sugar Daddy Deal #1 to Sugar Daddy Deal #2. Yup, changed it from Book 1, to Book 2, and now it is out of the dungeon.
The change wasn't without reason; it is a book two now. I wrote a prequel and updated the image, then forgot to change the blurb with the Book 1 in it.
If you'll remember I changed the cover of the book and in the second submission the reviewer dumped it into the adult dungeon. I can't tell why. There is no real reason for it. The cover is tame, the blurb is so vanilla it might as well not even be erotica. I'm shocked it got dungeoned. I'm equally shocked that it took another round through to get it out.
Sometimes it helps to resubmit with a minor change. It worked for me. No more adult dungeon.
Still, no real sales though either. I'm bummed. Apparently you can't just write awesome erotica and get people to buy it.