Short stories don’t take as much time to write as novels but can still be priced fairly high. There is such a huge market for erotic short stories on Amazon and erotica is the best performing genre on the site.Ģ. The same friend who introduced me to self-publishing also publishes erotic short stories and she tells me all the time about how the earning potential is higher for erotic shorts for two main reasons.ġ. The day after the books were published, I had made 19 sales! Since then, I’ve been hooked.įor the next couple of months, I continued to write and publish my romance novels as quickly as I could until I decided to try something new. I published the six novels that I had written in my spare time over the years to see if this was going to be something that I wanted to pursue.
That’s why, when a friend of mine introduced me to self-publishing, I knew that I had to at least try it out! I’ve always been more of a creative writer and I loved writing romance books in my spare time. I hated constantly having to send out query letters, dealing with rude sources, and writing about things I didn’t know anything about. While writing for such places has been my bread and butter, and the way that I feed my kids, I never really liked it.
– pretty much anyone I could get an assignment (and check) from. For several years, I have been writing for magazines, newspapers, websites, etc.