Speed Trap Encounter (Sexy Shorts Book 1) up at Amazon.

A new book from my good friend Julia Silvereyes is now up at Amazon

Tara is a big-titted motorcycle cop who hates her lonely posting in a speed trap. But she has to keep collecting money for her town’s corrupt government. 
Today however, she’s going to stop a car with a man and a woman who will lead Tara into an experience like she’s never had before. Tara will find that this ticket is the gateway to the erotic experience of her life…and an experience that will change her life. 

Julia Silvereyes’ Sexy Shorts are sexy, erotic stories that can be read in a few moments. These stories are all about sexy fun, sometimes with a couple, sometimes with many more participants, but they’re always fun for everyone involved! Explicit and consensual sex is the order of the day in these stories, so turn the page and start having fun! 

You can pick it up for 2.99 or read it for free as part of the Kindle Unlimited program!

Succubus Tales: The Merging up on Kindle

And Succubus Tales: The Merging is 

Up on Amazon Kindle!

From the Blurb:

Daphne wanted power, but not the decades of mystic study. So she found a shortcut, calling up a spirit to do her bidding. 

But Daphne didn’t remember the old saying: never call up what you cannot put down. The spirit she called isn’t going to obey, or go home…and it has a plan, a plan that will give Daphne her power, but a power that will come at an erotic cost… Soon Daphne will find herself battling for who gets to dominate their new relationship— the summoner or the summoned. 

Will Daphne survive and dominate her minion, or will she be lost to its erotic power? Whatever the answer, soon a being of sex will enter our world… and the world will never be the same. 

Book I in the Succubus Tales universe. 

Succubus Tales: The Merging is an adult erotic story intended only for individuals who are legally allowed to purchase and read such material.

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Spring of Desire II up for sale at Amazon!

Spring of Desire II is now up!

David and Cindi may have been transformed by the mystic powers of the Spring, but David isn’t about to stop with just two people! Cindi’s friend Mindy had always been a curvy little sexpot…and just the sort of woman David wanted. Now, the powers of the Spring will introduce Mindy to the kind of life she’s always desired, learning how to serve and pleasure Cindi and David… 

For Mindy, it’s the first step into a world of pleasure and submission. For David, it’s another step along the way to forging the Harem he now realizes he deserves. But the Spring is still a mystery… 

Book II in the Spring of Desire Series, as the power of the Spring continues to grow, enticing more people to take part in its pleasures and transformations. 

This story is adult, including erotic transformations and sex. It is only to be read by individuals who are legally permitted to read such stories.

Just as an FYI, this is part of an ongoing series-there are at least five parts plotted and depending on reader interest (sales for the mercantile among us), it could go to at least 10 parts.

Lindsay Buroker Tells you how to get your stuff into more categories with keywords.

Lindsey Buroker isn't a dedicated erotica writer (just wanted to get that out there since this is a blog on erotic writing and it's never a good idea to tie someone to a genre they may prefer not to be tied to.) but she has some great wisdom on keywords:

If you’ve published any ebooks through Amazon’s KDP dashboard, you know they allow you to select two categories (i.e. Fantasy/Epic or Science Fiction/Steampunk) for your work, and then they have a box where you can type in seven keywords, though they don’t really say if those keywords can be used to help you show up in the search results or what the deal is. They’re just… there.If you browse around Amazon, you may also have noticed that there are subcategories for ebooks that aren’t options in the dashboard (i.e. Science Fiction & Fantasy/Fantasy/Coming of Age or Romance/Paranormal/Witches & Wizards). Because some of these categories are so niched down (and because they’re not selectable on the dashboard), the competition can be low. It might only take a 50,000 sales ranking to appear in the Top 100.

It's a good article and you should go read it.

I'll add some of my own wisdom.  (that and five dollars will get you something called Coffee from Starbucks.)

Getting into multiple categories is one of the most important things yhou can do as an erotica writer...

IF your erotica is related to those categories.  If it isn't, if it's just a bog-standard erotica story that has a single raygun and is put into sci-fi, you will get Unhappy Readers.

Who will complain to Amazon.

You really want to avoid that.  So remember that keywords and categories, like anything else you do to boost your publicity, is part of attempting to create a long-term and loyal audience of fans, not simply getting someone to look at your book, feel deceived and return it, with or without a snarky review.

The People who Ensure We Can't have Nice things.

Amazon's KU program is doing very nicely. While it's not exceeded my sales numbers, it's certainly been a pleasant addition to them.  Unfortunately, as usual, we have people, a lot of them, coming out of the woodwork to try and "game the system."

In this case, it's short, very short "erotica" pieces that look like they were written by someone who has English as a fourth language.  They're usually sold for 2.99 and are short enough that anyone looking at them in KU likely contributes to the author even if he or she just read a single page.

Now, we ALL try to "game the system" to some degree.  If you've ever tried to predict what is going to be the hot thing, or written a story with the hope of appealing to KU borrowers, well you've done a bit of that.

But there's a difference, to put it in a vulgar way, between trying to improve your numbers and shitting in the well everyone else uses.

Amazon isn't stupid.  In fact, they're very, very smart which is part of the reason they are as big as they are.  The lending program isn't something they've done out of the goodness of their heart, it's something that they expect to pay money-- lots of money.

But if someone notices that whenever they search for an erotic title, they get 10,000 nearly unreadable results clogging up the page, they're likely to not be a subscriber for much longer.  Amazon knows this, and that means added scrutiny on the source of the problem: In this case, erotica.

Now, some may wonder: what's the big deal?  The problem is that the erotica writer already suffers from a situation in which editorial standards can vary widely from editor to editor-- what is good for one may result in a swift rejection by another.  Because of that, anything that leads to more editorial scrutiny is bad, to say nothing of the possibility that it could lead to changes in the lending program that are unfavorable to writers.

Just remember:  The people putting out the barely readable crap aren't writers-- they're people gaming the system. Last year they were putting out PLR labels, and God knows that they're going to be doing next year.  But we who are writers will be dealing with the consequences of their crap long after they've left Amazon for greener pastures.