My First Week as an Erotic Writer Is Over — Here Is My Report
Amazon is slow, but so am I
Yesterday I reported that I uploaded new, more harmless covers for the first three volumes of my series at Amazon USA. The old covers had caused me to end up in the adult dungeon, which means that my books are practically impossible for customers to find in the US shop.
Yesterday evening I received a message from KDP support that my changes have been implemented. But the new covers are still not online.
This is annoying because I wanted to ask the support to remove the adult filter as soon as the new covers are online. Now I have to wait and see.
Additionally, volume three is still being checked and is not yet online. Meanwhile, I’ve been waiting for over forty-eight hours for the release. In the German shop, I have never had to wait longer than twelve hours.
Yesterday there were no sales for me. But with 393 pages, I reached a new record for the pages read about Kindle Unlimited.
For comparison. The day before yesterday, I had 269 pages and the day before 211 pages. So the trend is clearly upwards.
In my article yesterday, I announced that I wanted to finish part four of the series in German today and publish it in the German Kindle-Shop.
I missed this goal. Of the planned 5000 words, I only wrote 3093 today. So I will have to postpone the next publication until tomorrow.
Of course, there is a reason for this. I wasn’t lazy or had writer’s block, but I started working on my next thriller today.
Initially, I didn’t have any money for a new release in the mainstream thriller genre because I work there with professional cover designers and proofreaders, and I can’t get a decent launch without massive advertising. As I wrote a few days ago, I had to pay over 7000 Euro in taxes, which is why all my business went off the rails. That was also the real reason why I started with adult short stories.
But this morning, I received a mail from our cultural authority. I was granted 2000 Euro help for a new start as a non-repayable grant. So the situation has changed. I can write and publish thrillers again.
But since I can’t assume that the next thriller alone will solve all my financial problems, I’m staying on the ball in the erotica field, as I’ve set my sights on.
I now assume that I can publish two new erotic books per week and release my new thriller in the middle or end of September.
Together with my articles here, I will have to write about 6000 words per day to achieve my goals everywhere.
My Twitter account is growing in small steps. I am now following nearly 280 erotic authors, 80 of whom follow me back. I retweet diligently and still hold back on promoting my books.
Twitter will remain the only social media channel I use for my marketing. Creating a page on Facebook is a waste of time, as I couldn’t advertise it anyway. Facebook doesn’t allow advertising for erotic content.
I will get back to you tomorrow and hope that my new covers will be online by then to get out of the adult dungeon in the US-store finally.
Keep your fingers crossed for me.
René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.
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