Well, that's Christmas 2011 over and done with. Only New Year's to go and we can all kiss 2011 goodbye. So, how was 2011 for you? Was 2011 possibly the most violent in human history? It sure felt that way. The daily news headlines read like a body count.
I even wrote a flash fiction short, "Knockout King" about one of the headlines - the new trend of kid gangs walking the streets and punching out the elderly. Charming. We really have reached the pinnacle of civilization with *that* one!
Writing during 2011 was quite productive, with sales just over the 12,000 mark so far, but there's still two days to go!
We've had the furore over the Kindle 'Select' deal, which really set the cat among the pigeons for many people. But, as I said, you make your own choices; do what works best for you.
All that aside, I published just over 100 new stories in 2011 - not too shabby I think.
As predicted with indie publishing, pornography leads the field by a VERY wide margin, with nearly 90% of visits to my publications being people looking for FREE porn. Sorry, that should be *erotica*, ahem.
Whatever your feelings about indie publishing and porn, the fact remains that sex sells. Big time!
If you're writing only for the money, you just can' t go wrong with writing porn - the cornier the better it seems. One of my titles, "Li'l Red in the Hood", shifted over eight THOUSAND copies on Amazon, 6000 of those in June, 2011 alone! That's 200 copies per day, EVERY day for the month of June, or 8 copies EVERY hours of every day for thirty days. How many other fiction genres would sell that well?
So, to keep the coffers topped up, I churn out smut like there's no tomorrow and watch it fly off the digital shelves. Readers simply can't get enough of this stuff.
But what *is* disturbing is that the most popular theme is the one with "Daddy" in the title. Yep, incest is still the #1 porn theme. Very worrying . . .
Of course, you could have guessed that the #2 slot is filled with anything along a 'gay' line. Men in showers, workshops, parties . . . wherever.
Threesomes comes next (menage a trois), and then everything else in no particular order.
I wonder what the epic authors of our times would make of the current trend in publications? Would Mr. Dickens be sitting in his study, poring over a few pages of steamy smut over Christmas? Who knows . . . probably. The Victorians were a horny lot under their facade of respectability.
So, on we go, as they say. Once more into the breach, as King Henry V once said. Onwards and upwards
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