Hi y’all! I’m an erotica/erotic romance author. I started my self-publishing journey in mid-June 2024, so it’s been 3 months now. I published 20+ novelettes/novellas on Amazon until I was banned for having a misleading title… Was pretty annoying and they won’t reinstate my account, but it is what it is. So, I’m starting from scratch and going wide this time with my distribution.
My strategy has, from the get go, been to write a prolific number of novelettes and see whether I can turn this into a full-time job and income stream in a year. I started with the goal of publishing 100-150 novelettes by the end of 2024, which I still think I’m capable of doing. It’s really just one grand experiment to see whether this time next year, I’ll be making $500/day just from self-publishing.
Maybe that’s unrealistic. That amounts to $15k a month. But maybe it’s doable if I’m indeed churning out a prolific number of novelettes. My hypothesis is that by staying consistent and strategic, by writing a spicy novelette a day in niche topics, it’s doable. This community is about holding myself accountable and also sharing the fruits of my labour with others who have the same goals and who maybe want to see whether the experiment is a success!
I will say that I’m not picky about the length of the novelette. The novelettes I published to Amazon before were typically around 10k words, although some were 7k and others were 13k words. Now that I’m shifting my attention mainly to Smashwords, I want to write shorter novelettes around the 3-5k word range to help with staying on time with my production schedule.
I am a ghostwriter, so I’m used to writing high volumes of works in a short period of time. Routinely, I would write 30-40k words a week, sometimes even up to 80-90k words. So, writing a novelette a day is quite possible.
Also, I’ve noticed that the more I immerse myself in making self-publishing my main job, the more excitement, passion and momentum I gain. It’s so much fun to experiment with all this! Am excited to report the results of this whole journey here.
So I hope you find some value in following my journey, especially if you’re trying to be a prolific erotica writer as well! Join my subreddit ProlificSMUTAuthor if you’ll enjoy this mission!
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