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ell, but I have a few to choose from that might suit me as an author.</p><p id="4a85">Before I bundle the six volumes of the first series, I will let a few days pass. Ideally, I’ll wait two weeks because a bundle only makes sense when the individual volumes don’t sell anymore. But then a bundle is the best way to make a little extra cash. Readers love bundles, and in my experience, bundle buyers are a different target group than readers who buy individual short stories. So bundles are another market that I will not ignore.</p><p id="f479">I plan that by the end of next week, I will have the first two volumes of the upcoming series ready and available on Amazon. From today on, I will always share my working days fifty-fifty between my thrillers and my erotic stories. In this way, I am making continuous progress with both.</p><p id="d8e0">That’s it for today from the erotica front, guys. Be back tomorrow when I post my next update.</p><p id="363f"><a href="https://readmedium.com/d855be749e6c?source=post_page-----834577ca2b4a----------------------"><b><i>René Junge</i></b></a><b><i> a published author writing on <a href="https://medium.com/illumination">ILLUMINATION</a>.</i></b></p><p id="b856"><b>Receive weekly updates, and don’t miss any of my articles.</b></p><p id="21f8"><b>subscribe here <a href="http://bit.ly/ReneJunge">http://bit.ly/ReneJunge</a></b></p><p id="8ce5">Read also:</p><div id="c1f9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/day-15-of-my-new-career-as-an-erotica-author-sales-pick-up-speed-fa6950e43c9e"> <div> <div> <h2>Day 15 of My New Career as an Erotica Author — Sales Pick Up Speed</h2> <div><h3>Yesterday I thought it was a happy coincidence. Today there is a trend.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*CfqSlqFNoATfCqSS)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="9565" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-journey-as-an-erotica-writer-continues-five-sales-in-one-day-c0c55ce7f6d5"> <div> <div> <h2>My Journey as an Erotica Writer Continues — Five Sales in One Day</h2> <div><h3>My readers always become active in the evening. Yesterday nothing happened all day, but just before midnight I suddenly…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*C9mAA5f5eed9ODzI)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="4141" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/fourteen-days-as-an-erotic-author-four-books-later-f6ecd539ed48"> <div> <div> <h2>Fourteen Days as an Erotic Author — Four Books Later</h2> <div><h3>A new Page read record on Saturday, and the ten-euro mark cracked.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*5qKBMSkiPiOQB-IV)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="931c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/day-ten-as-erotic-author-a-day-for-administrative-tasks-988d367ec97e"> <div> <div> <h2>Day Ten as Erotic Author — a Day for Administrative Tasks</h2> <div><h3>Friday is an excellent day to review the week and do things missed out during the week.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*yVZo242bum6cAROb)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8976" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/day-nine-as-an-erotica-writer-i-have-to-find-a-niche-1eddee422fa"> <div> <div> <h2>Day Nine as an Erotica Writer — I H

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Sixteen Days Have Passed Since I Published My First Erotic Short Story. I Learn More Every Day

Sales and borrows alternate like ebb and flow. The erotica market follows the overall market, like clockwork.

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A day with few sales

Yesterday I was able to report that I had five sales for two days in a row. When I wrote the article, it looked like I could do it again that day. But then yesterday it was just the two sales I had in the early afternoon. Instead, the number of read pages via Kindle unlimited continued to climb.

There are days in the Kindle Shop when people buy as if there were no tomorrow, and then again, there are days when you think everyone went on vacation at the same time.

I know these ups and downs from the last five years as a thriller author very well. Unusually good days are often followed by surprisingly weak days, so you shouldn’t worry about that. You can only think of a trend when sales figures deteriorate for a few days in a row. Everything else is normal market fluctuations.

So yesterday was a day with two sales after two days with five each. Nevertheless, I’m not worried, because on all the other days I only had one sale at most. So I still did better yesterday than in the first twelve days of my new career.

I could see from my thrillers that yesterday was not only a bad sales day for my erotic books but a generally lousy day at the Kindle store. Their sales were also much weaker than the days before.

But yesterday was another day for Kindle unlimited readers. As I wrote yesterday, there are days when people buy a lot and days when they borrow a lot. Both together are very rare.

So I didn’t have a Page-read record yesterday, but the numbers were still well above average when I look at them in the context of the previous sixteen days.

Volume five finds the first readers

Amazon released the fifth volume of my erotic short story series the night before last. Shortly after that, the first sale and a significant increase in the ranking were made, indicating numerous borrows. This continued yesterday. In the German Kindle Store, the book reached the top 200 in erotic stories.

So now I have a five-volume series on the market, and every book sells every other one. I have links to the other volumes in the Backmatter, and Amazon has activated the series page. This way, every new reader is now good for up to five purchases or borrows. As a thriller author, I learned how effective a well-linked series is, and now I can clearly see that this effect also works in the erotica genre.

A reader, who finds volume five by chance today, because it’s placed high up among the new releases, can now immediately see that there are more of them and buy the other books without having to search for them.

Volume six is on the way

After working exclusively on my new thriller yesterday, I have divided my time today. First, I wrote 2500 words for the thriller plot and then 2500 words for volume six of my erotica series. I will repeat the same game tomorrow, so volume six can go online tomorrow. This will complete my first erotica series.

Meanwhile, I notice clearly that writing sex stories is becoming easier and easier for me. I have entirely stopped asking myself whether I can really write certain things or whether they are perhaps too direct or too obscene. I have put this thinking aside. Since I see that the readers accept my stories, I no longer worry.

How it shall go on

After the series is before the series. As soon as volume six is finished, I will write the first book of a new series. So far, I don’t know what that will be, but this time I will turn to a more narrowly defined Kink. I still have to decide on the Kink as well, but I have a few to choose from that might suit me as an author.

Before I bundle the six volumes of the first series, I will let a few days pass. Ideally, I’ll wait two weeks because a bundle only makes sense when the individual volumes don’t sell anymore. But then a bundle is the best way to make a little extra cash. Readers love bundles, and in my experience, bundle buyers are a different target group than readers who buy individual short stories. So bundles are another market that I will not ignore.

I plan that by the end of next week, I will have the first two volumes of the upcoming series ready and available on Amazon. From today on, I will always share my working days fifty-fifty between my thrillers and my erotic stories. In this way, I am making continuous progress with both.

That’s it for today from the erotica front, guys. Be back tomorrow when I post my next update.

René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.

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