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    I'm not sure if this is the right section, so mods feel free to move it if necessary.

    My friend recently began writing erotica at my suggestion. (My first vote was male stripper, so we shall see if that comes to surface too.) Anyway, he finished his first story, and it's the beginning of a series. It's free today and tomorrow if anyone wants to read and tell me what you think: http://www.amazon.com/Haleys-Hysteri...s=avery+brazen

    He's a great fiction writer in general, but he's new to this genre. Constructive criticism is totally welcome and will be passed along in a c/p.

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    Looks like it's back at its regular price now. Congrats & good luck to your friend! Selling erotica on Amazon is a good way to make money. He has a decent sales rank too, 55K, which is pretty good for a first publication!

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    Default Re: If you're an erotica reader, my friend's stuff is free today and tomorrow

    Quote Originally Posted by tuesdaymarie View Post
    I'm not sure if this is the right section, so mods feel free to move it if necessary.

    My friend recently began writing erotica at my suggestion. (My first vote was male stripper, so we shall see if that comes to surface too.) Anyway, he finished his first story, and it's the beginning of a series. It's free today and tomorrow if anyone wants to read and tell me what you think: http://www.amazon.com/Haleys-Hysteri...s=avery+brazen

    He's a great fiction writer in general, but he's new to this genre. Constructive criticism is totally welcome and will be passed along in a c/p.
    He is going to make some great money on Amazon

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    Default Re: If you're an erotica reader, my friend's stuff is free today and tomorrow

    Tell him to check out Smashwords they have a big erotica audience! Also, Amazon is saying page not found. now

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    Amazon is apparently cracking down on new erotica writers. He was blocked for reasons Amazon won't specify beyond a violation of TOS. He emailed a top erotica writer on Amazon, and she said that a lot of new authors have been getting banned from the site for writing "offensive" material--basically anything that's not super vanilla or already bought by the millions, like 50 Shades of Grey. As of now, Kindle is still claiming exclusive rights to his story, even though they won't let him sell it. As of the last time we talked, I think he is going to go the Smashwords route with his future material, as Amazon won't write him back to clarify their rules (and they're not available anywhere in detail), and for all he knows at the moment, he might be banned from selling anything on Amazon in the future, even non-erotica. He sent me this article on the subject if anyone else has been considering writing erotica on Amazon: http://philipgarland.wordpress.com/2...ir-buddy-list/

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    His entire account was banned, or was it just his story that was blocked? I've never heard of an author being banned outright unless it's for plagiarism. One of my stories was blocked a couple weeks ago, but my account is still fine. I did notice that he used KDP Select, which might have different/stricter rules. I've never used it myself so IDK.

    Amazon IS cracking down on some content, mostly pseudo-incest and anything overly hardcore or explicit. The stories can still be very very dirty but the covers, titles and blurbs must be vanilla. If he wants to look at other sites, I would recommend Draft2Digital over Smashwords. The latter really sucks at distribution, reporting, etc. But D2D is awesome. If he's American he can publish directly to Barnes & Noble too, which doesn't really have any content guidelines at all, and they sell ALMOST as well as Amazon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tuesdaymarie View Post
    Amazon is apparently cracking down on new erotica writers. He was blocked for reasons Amazon won't specify beyond a violation of TOS. He emailed a top erotica writer on Amazon, and she said that a lot of new authors have been getting banned from the site for writing "offensive" material--basically anything that's not super vanilla or already bought by the millions, like 50 Shades of Grey. As of now, Kindle is still claiming exclusive rights to his story, even though they won't let him sell it. As of the last time we talked, I think he is going to go the Smashwords route with his future material, as Amazon won't write him back to clarify their rules (and they're not available anywhere in detail), and for all he knows at the moment, he might be banned from selling anything on Amazon in the future, even non-erotica. He sent me this article on the subject if anyone else has been considering writing erotica on Amazon: http://philipgarland.wordpress.com/2...ir-buddy-list/
    ^That's pretty outrageous! If you look at the top authors on Amazon, 10-20 out of the top 50 are erotic fiction authors. I wonder if Penguin or Random House have anything to do with this... (yeahoki'maconspiracytheorist)
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    ^I will c/p that to him. Thanks!

    From what I understand, his account hasn't been banned. I think he was just concerned that it might be because he had no clue why they were blocking his story when there are so many more "questionable" stories that are still up for sale. The first time he submitted it, it was immediately blocked. He did some research and thought it was because he didn't have a statement about all characters being 18+. So he submitted the story again with a notice stating so in the beginning, and that time it was approved. He then edited a really simply typo, and they reblocked it. I'm not sure, but I think it might have to do with him using tags in the title, and one of them was "teen," as the main character is 18.

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    Okay, that's what I thought. He can still get it unblocked. He should remove any possible trigger words like "teen", etc. Also avoid using words like daughter, daddy, etc. And make sure that the cover isn't too revealing.

    Hopefully he can get it past the censors!

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    He said to send you many thanks, particularly for the Draft2Digital suggestion.

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