eBooks

4 Sep 2014

How do I independently get my eBook out there? Be it for free or for sale?

5 Sep 2014

Quote by MiquelaC
How do I independently get my eBook out there? Be it for free or for sale?

I think KDP or Smashwords are favourite amongst the independent authors on Lush:

https://kdp.amazon.com/

https://www.smashwords.com/

Paste in your story, design a cover, set a price, hit submit. I think they make it pretty straight forward.

You might also wish to have a chat with the boss-lady about Lush Publishing. smile

https://www.lushstories.com/forum/yaf_topics43_Lush-Publishing.aspx

Good luck!

Liz

@Lizerotica

5 Sep 2014

thank you x

17 May 2016

Same question.

Has anyone out there made the jump to ebooks with fiction originally published on Lush? I have ebooks on Amazon, but never tried erotica. If you have, did you get significant sales? Do you have any advice?

Has anyone tried publishing individual stories for 99 cents? Has anyone tried a story collection? Or are novels the way to go?

Okay, last question...how do you approach Lush to pitch an erotic book? There's a link earlier in this thread, but it is broken.

17 Jun 2016

I'm currently looking to get my first novella published and I'm struggling because most publishers are looking for longer works. I've found very few open to submissions for novellas, even fewer for short stories. Novels seem to be the way to go. If you're self-publishing, I don't think length matters but I doubt there's much money to be made from sales. There's massive competition out there. Then again, you've nothing to lose by trying it. Good luck x

17 Jun 2016

Quote by Saucymh
I'm currently looking to get my first novella published and I'm struggling because most publishers are looking for longer works.

This is something that has always irked me a bit. Novellas need more love and in the age of the e-book, you'd think the lower cost of production might make them more attractive. I remember a publisher (forget who) did put out a great line of s-f and fantasy novellas back in the eighties or nineties and I'd love to see something similar.

However, best option seems to be to wait until you have 3 or 4 written and then put them out under a collective title as Stephen King did with Different Seasons (which has 4 novella/novelette length works in it).

18 Jun 2016

Quote by Verbal
Same question.

Has anyone out there made the jump to ebooks with fiction originally published on Lush? I have ebooks on Amazon, but never tried erotica. If you have, did you get significant sales? Do you have any advice?

Has anyone tried publishing individual stories for 99 cents? Has anyone tried a story collection? Or are novels the way to go?

Okay, last question...how do you approach Lush to pitch an erotic book? There's a link earlier in this thread, but it is broken.

Yes - A Star Is Porn was originally published on Lush. I got this email:

During a review of your KDP submission(s), we found content that is widely available on the web. You can do an online search for the content inside your book(s) to discover which sites are offering the content for free. Copyright is important to us – we want to make sure that no author or other copyright holder has their work claimed and sold by anyone else.

To confirm you have publishing rights to and control where you distribute the book(s), please provide all of the following information:

1. The URLs for all websites where this content is published
2. An explanation as to why the content is available online

If the books are in the public domain, please confirm this and include the information you used to make this determination. We may request additional information to confirm the public domain status.

Please respond within 5 days to , and include the title and ID of your books in your reply. If we do not receive the requested documentation, your book will not be made available for sale.

The only place it was available was Lush, so I just hid the story and replied to say that I'd done it.

Most self-published ebooks on Amazon or elsewhere sell no copies at all, or as close to zero as makes no odds. Your book is a grain of sand on Amazon's ebook beach. My advice is to make your grain of sand as pretty and shiny and unique as possible so that if someone does happen to pick it up, they'll want to keep it.

If you do a really good job, they'll go and look for other grains of sand just like the first one.

Has anyone tried publishing individual stories for 99 cents?

Yes. Works for some authors - probably if you've got high visibility. Didn't work for me.

Has anyone tried a story collection?

My stories have been clumped in with other authors' grains of sand. I did it because it was fun.

Or are novels the way to go?

One grain of sand on the beach? Depends how much time / energy / commitment you've got.

Write good books.
Write a lot of them.

22 Jun 2016

"Most self-published ebooks on Amazon or elsewhere sell no copies at all, or as close to zero as makes no odds. Your book is a grain of sand on Amazon's ebook beach. My advice is to make your grain of sand as pretty and shiny and unique as possible so that if someone does happen to pick it up, they'll want to keep it."

Sobering words but excellent advice. coffee

22 Jun 2016

Using Smashwords I have put out three ebooks. Two were non-erotic. One a collection of poems, the other a collection of short stories. They are found on Amazon as well as all other major publishers. My one collection of erotic stories was taken from HistoriasLush which is no longer in existence. They are all stories in Spanish. It was all an exercise in checking off items on my bucket list. I didn't expect to make any money. I didn't. But the occasional buck or two is still coming into my Paypal account.