I bet it's pretty fucking easy, and there's a ton of periodicals that buy shit like that. I could use some extra money.

There would have to be some money in it, especially if you sold it around campus or something. People would buy it because it's funny that someone from MTSU is writing erotica.

Publishing costs would be my only concern, albeit a big one.

(Edited by richarddawson at 2:00 am on Feb. 12, 2004)

Hm, I might seriously look into this. I know it would make mom proud.

could you please just look it up? why do you think that anyone here would know the answer to that question? maybe you should join an erotic lit message board and ask for some tips...
oh wait, no, you shouldnt, because there, no one would react with a "whoo, risque!" or "you must be hot!" or "can i hang out with you in your shed sometime?" quit begging for attention from all of us and just pm carl or keith if youre honestly as horny as you claim to be.

don't forget *gags on tea*. you left that one out.

(Edited by richarddawson at 3:35 am on Feb. 12, 2004)

Is publishing still that expensive? I thought that advances in technology over the past few years had made it very affordable to publish your work on a small scale.

Miss 9, it might be more profitable for you to start one of those websites where you publish your Amazon wishlist and then send naked pictures to everyone who buys you something off that list. I've made some good money doing that. In fact, I was able to quit my job so I could devote more time to it!

It is now. You can pay certain companies to publish anything you want. All you pay for is putting it into book format. Some can even set it up where the book can be purchased off of Amazon and other places.



Best $8 I ever spent.

Yeah, Stopforme is right. You're going to need an "editor", right? For your first assignment, I want something involving a darkroom, a buffalo head, and two chicks-- one named Jurley and one named Karri-Anne. Get on it!

don't forget the male lead -- Karl.

Brilliant!

Karl Hungus.

Well, I haven't actually written anything, I just assumed it would be really easy to do, and then just send the short stories into magazines and get a few bucks for it. I guess romance stories have the same kind of audience, I know my mom loves them....it's just a basic formula that you get down, and have fast cash thrown your way.

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but if there was an easy way to make money, everyone would be doing it. Therefore, we should conclude that there are no easy ways to make money.

I think the Internet killed the erotica market because there's such an overwhelming supply of it now.

You make a good point....I didn't think really about all the internet stuff. I didn't think people got paid for that, though, they just put it up themselves or submit it to online journals or whatnot.

Damn. I really need money.
But watch me blow $7 on a Privates CD anyways....

Replace the words $7 on with the words Keith for, and you can save yourself some cash.

You're right; I doubt the Internet people get paid for it... which is the crux of my argument. Why would people pay you to do something that other people are doing for free?

(Edited by Tom Foolery at 12:14 pm on Feb. 12, 2004)

True Dat. And Tom Foolery, your avatars are getting overwhelmingly JamieCarroll again.

TF - getting SPICY here on this rainy Thursday afternoon!

I think that there could be money to be made in writing erotic stories. TF, I don't think that the argument of "If it were so easy, everyone would be doing it" holds up here, because not everyone has the ability to write good erotic prose.

However, I think that the money would probably have to come from working for someone else (Penthouse Letters or some such adult publication, Harlequin Books or some such romance novel publisher, etc). I'm sure that the publishers (or online publishers) of adult fiction are always looking for new talent, so who knows? But I can say with complete confidence that despite what you might have heard, it is still relatively expensive to have small quantities of a publication printed, so going into business for yourself might be kind of expensive.

If you really want to make alot of money fast, you should either get into day-trading (now's the time!) or learn to count cards and take a road trip to Tunica.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 3:18 pm on Feb. 12, 2004)

Contact Roadie if you need a driver.

I'm still convinced that waiting tables at the right place is the quickest money a person can earn when not looking for a career...


...that, or being one of the lucky few who are on TF's "hookers to call" list.

I've got a roll of Benjamins and no date for Valentine's Day... someone's going to make a fortune!

the answer to your money problems lies within that sentence. delete a few words and look closely...

damnit, you beat me to it. i need to quit posting before reading the rest of the posts.

I dunno, I have a friend who said he was going to write bodice-ripper romances to make money. It's funny if you know him, because he writes this very dark, extremely gory stuff. But deep down he is really is a softy (at least towards old people and his dates) and he watches soap operas, so he probably could do it.

I think the key to making money writing either romances or erotica is the ability to write something really hot that a bunch of unfulfilled women will pay $7 many, many times to read. By that, I mean being able to write to your audience well enough that they keep on coming back to buy more and more of your books. And the idea behind romances/erotica being "easy money" is because they really don't require much literary talent (I'm not making a pointed comment about you, I'm just saying in general) to produce. You just have to be able to write something erotic/romantic enough to get a bunch of teenage to middle-aged women all hot and bothered, and then be able to turn out a new one like once a month. So the ease of money comes from the mass production and selling a ton of copies. That probably only works if you can get yourself signed to a publishing company, so that you have an advance plus royalties (authors make more money per book then songwriters make per song, so that's more money right there). And then it would probably help sell books if you did at least a mini-tour. And getting an agent would probably help you get a better deal with your publisher. I don't think publishing yourself would be cost-effective, plus I'm always wary of buying something froma vanity publisher - and buying vanity erotica just seems that much smarmier.

Come to think of it, I also know someone who decided to focus more on writing romance novels than songwriting because there was better money in it. And I know another romance novelist...damn, how do I know these people? I don't know if any of them have been published, though...I guess I should find out. And then find out how they did it.

(Edited by SoundAsEver at 10:57 pm on Feb. 23, 2004)

now that's just rude

besides..... there's a lot more money in web cam porn anyway;) ok, now THAT was rude;)

(Edited by muck at 1:01 am on Feb. 25, 2004)