LET’S WRITE ABOUT SEX

[defrog]

A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post about censoring yr own books to get on iTunes:

Someone mentioned Zane, who writes “urban erotica” and by many accounts writes it extremely well. I saw some of her books in an airport book store once, but otherwise I’m not that familiar with her.

So I Googled her, and it turns out she’s a pretty interesting case study for aspiring writers. She started off writing erotica out of boredom, and distributed her stories by email and via her AOL web page. She built up a big enough audience that she figured she could actually sell books.

Ten years and 2.7 million copies later, she’s a regular on the best-seller lists and has her own Cinemax softcore series and a movie deal.

Here’s the best part (and the one I want David Carnoy and Apple to read):

Publishers offered her deals, she said, but only if she toned down her writing, which Zane had no intention of doing. In 1999, she founded her own publishing company, Strebor, to self-publish her first three books.

See what just happened there?

Note also that her AOL web page was deleted a few weeks after she started posting her stories there because of all teh sexy.

Let that be a lesson to you all.

But then I write sci-fi porn in my spare time, so I would say that, wouldn’t I?

DIY is sexy,

This is dF

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And now Strebor is part of my company S&S.

We like her, she sells books.