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I am mildly bemused that I am, apparently, the kiss of death to published erotica books. Literally. It's now pretty much a documented fact - the more of a book I wrote, the less it will sell. If I wrote a scene of it to help fluff out something my wife wrote most of? It will be lower in sales than anything she writes solo. If I wrote the entire thing? It's never going to sell.
This despite the fact that our writing is meshable enough that we can go back later and have debates about what part which of us wrote because we don't remember (other than "I remember I wrote some part of that one") and our styles don't actually give it away. Nevertheless, somehow, magically, the reading population must know and if I wrote it then it's dead in the water. I'm actually kind of deeply amused by this.
Obviously I should stop writing porn and go back to writing epic plots and dripping angst. XD (yes, that's.... not sarcasm, exactly, but amusement. I'm doing BOTH, tyvm, but one of these things can be wrapped up and published much faster than the other.) Or possibly I should go back to just writing boys fucking (ok, THAT'S sarcasm) except honestly I never actually wrote that many PWPs even in fandom. I think FF8's Laguna & Squall were my hayday, and then I slacked off and relegated the sex to the implied scenes instead.
Also, I would like to get a bigger and more accurate database for my brain, please. It would save me from things like having a book recced at me, getting it, and only discovering partway in that it's by an author I've tried before and hated. Apparently I hated it so much that I blocked the author name from my mind and this, in turn, failed to save me from picking up another one of their books. Dammit.
I don't want to be one of the read-and-return crowd (who I hate, with a passion, and it's rampant on Amazon because their return policy is a very lax any time within a week of purchasing an ebook. There are actually a large slew of asshats who will buy not just a single book but entire series of books, read them all in a week, and then return them one right after the other. It's something a lot of indie authors have taken notice off and complained about, but Amazon doesn't seem to care, which seems sort of dumb - it's stealing money from them too, when they could enforce a shorter return policy and instead funnel people into their Kindle Unlimited subscription service instead.) but I'm seriously debating legitimately returning this book as a mis-purchase that I don't want in my library and won't ever be reading. Ugh. However, as I know how infuriating the read-and-return thing is, I'll instead just eat the cost of purchse as my loss for being an idiot who can't remember things, and delete it from my collection.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
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This despite the fact that our writing is meshable enough that we can go back later and have debates about what part which of us wrote because we don't remember (other than "I remember I wrote some part of that one") and our styles don't actually give it away. Nevertheless, somehow, magically, the reading population must know and if I wrote it then it's dead in the water. I'm actually kind of deeply amused by this.
Obviously I should stop writing porn and go back to writing epic plots and dripping angst. XD (yes, that's.... not sarcasm, exactly, but amusement. I'm doing BOTH, tyvm, but one of these things can be wrapped up and published much faster than the other.) Or possibly I should go back to just writing boys fucking (ok, THAT'S sarcasm) except honestly I never actually wrote that many PWPs even in fandom. I think FF8's Laguna & Squall were my hayday, and then I slacked off and relegated the sex to the implied scenes instead.
Also, I would like to get a bigger and more accurate database for my brain, please. It would save me from things like having a book recced at me, getting it, and only discovering partway in that it's by an author I've tried before and hated. Apparently I hated it so much that I blocked the author name from my mind and this, in turn, failed to save me from picking up another one of their books. Dammit.
I don't want to be one of the read-and-return crowd (who I hate, with a passion, and it's rampant on Amazon because their return policy is a very lax any time within a week of purchasing an ebook. There are actually a large slew of asshats who will buy not just a single book but entire series of books, read them all in a week, and then return them one right after the other. It's something a lot of indie authors have taken notice off and complained about, but Amazon doesn't seem to care, which seems sort of dumb - it's stealing money from them too, when they could enforce a shorter return policy and instead funnel people into their Kindle Unlimited subscription service instead.) but I'm seriously debating legitimately returning this book as a mis-purchase that I don't want in my library and won't ever be reading. Ugh. However, as I know how infuriating the read-and-return thing is, I'll instead just eat the cost of purchse as my loss for being an idiot who can't remember things, and delete it from my collection.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. ::
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