Putting the Work in Jessbaby's Workshop

 So as I continue to spend much of my free time reading and learning more about the strange niche of the publishing world I'm thinking of jumping into, I figure I should use this blog for occasional updates. And just so you have reason to come back, I'll make recommendations as I read things that don't suck. 

So as a first update, I am certain now that I'm going to at least try to get some real paid books going. They will have what you might expect, maybe a little more vanilla but still playing to my strengths and trying to make the characters three dimensional. I've started a story and I've made an outline of where it's going to go. One of the things many agree on is that stories should be viewed of as installments, because the real money is in bundles. So I'm planning for bundles from the start and hopefully if I find the character don't take me in too much of another direction as I write them (something Zainab very much did for example, she was originally supposed to be an eventual villain! Can you even imagine that now?). 

The series is going to be more grounded, (no wizardy techno-chips or slave contracts) but still have plenty of escapist and unusual fun. I have most of the core of the main character but I'll go into detail in another post, which I'm going to try to do at least every other week at minimum.

But like I promised, I'm reading so much now that I do run across good works I want to share so I will. Each post I will pick one story that I have at minimum partially read (so sue me, I start more than I finish) Also want to add, on top of this becoming a repeating thing it will never be paid promotion:

The Farmer by Ashley Zacharias

It may have one of the more captivating openers I've ever read. And until July 31st it is 100% free. The basic premise, and I do not want to give much away as that's a lot of the magic, but a mystery woman volunteers to be the sex slave of some random person, knowing the risks of doing that and getting very turned on by those risks. The author's writing is very good at conveying emotion and has moments of comic surrealism very well. This is a hefty 58k word full novel length and is only book one of a four book set, meaning it can take its time going wherever it wants to go.

With that I sign off and enjoy the weekend.

Wading into the pool

 So as I've been looking for new work I've also been familiarizing myself a lot more with the world of paid erotica. I am not ready to do a full relaunch of myself as an actual professional writer rather than the ameture I still feel I am, but I will absolutly keep this place as informed as anywhere.

And in preparing, not only has Kindle Unlimited just been so helpful but there are also a good many books written by published authors about how they've managed to do that. How they might suggest others do that. And even though they'd be direct competition they all have been surprisingly helpful in their books, probably cause me reading their books gets them paid regardless of what I end up doing. And one thing they all agree on, read as much as possible especially of the books that make up the top sellers. 

I still maintain a lot of it isn't great, and that there are more than a few armature writers that write better, but I'm also realizing a shift I hadn't made by my last post is that if I want it to be a business, it's important to put out what people like not necessarily what I like most. 

I also feel a weird amount like I'm reading so much I should almost start just a recommendations list, but that's maybe more work than I'd want to actually do. But while there's a lot of tropes I'm probably not going to touch (so much incest content!) I am trying to get into the headspace of producing the kind of thing people seem to be liking and put my own spin (and hopefully skill) on it. Not pure vanilla, still plenty of D/s kink, but maybe with a bit more focus. I've planned out some stories and have even started writing even if it's not been near the speed I'd need to do to be more competitive since it's largely a volume/frequency game. So smaller more frequent stories rather than longer less frequent. 

I also think reading as much as I have been is messing with me, my thoughts seem to drift to the lude so much faster than normal. Anyway that's basically as much as I will update for now, also if you are into it Smashwords has a sale for the month of July that I have been taking advantage of and if any of you like me crave this stuff there is a lot to like.