Adult Ebooks Surprise Me Again!
March 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: At the tail end (or whatever it is this time of year in jersey) of the winter, not only am I experiencing that ‘come-on-let’s-get-some-warm-weather already’ ache but also a financial crunch I have never seen the likes of. All this on my head with the added stress of constantly applying for writing jobs (really how many of us are out there?!) I sauntered out to the old mailbox fearing the wad of bills I’d find. Low and behold, there was a check from my e-book publisher-Renaissance E-books to be exact-for my last few month’s gains.
To say I was tickled would be an understatement.
Having just spoken to my buddy and well-known erotic writer M. Christian about the state of publishing and both of us expounding positively on our continued experience with e-book publishing I found it ironic to get this check when I did, yet I’m none to surprise. For me it’s not the money so much that tickles me (ok, it’s a little bit about the money) but the way in which e-books work, as Christian and I opined, how a publisher need not hold physical copies of a book, how books of an adult nature are tried where a bigger publisher fears them (and the return of same) how, like the record business, the paradigm is shifting so much for how people get their books and read them (see the new Mac ‘Tablet’ yet?) that e-publishing is truly the way to go.
I met Jean Marie Stine of Renaissance E-books over the summer in San Fransico at the Cybernet convention, and within a month or so she not only had two books from me, but had them up on the site and was sending me a check within another. Now I get my 2nd. I have done no book tours, no signings (not that I wouldn’t) I just blogged, link Renaissance’s ‘Sizzler’ Editions whenever I can and the books work for me ‘out there’ in the ether that is cyberspace. No worries of boxes of returns, no calls from a publisher that we need to work harder, no attempt at anyone to tell me to write something more ‘commercial’.
I couldn’t be happier.
So hear me now my brothers and sisters of the quilted pen. As you make your way with your scribbles and jibes, uncover every opportunity, look far and wide for new and untried places to publish and think hard about the future, because the future is here…and it pays.
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