A how-to book for writers eager to break into one of today's hottest, most lucrative, and most receptive free-lance markets--the world of erotic fiction and nonfiction.

From bookstores to the Internet to Susie Bright's own tremendous success with the BEST AMERICAN EROTICA series, we are clearly reading and writing erotica more than ever. Now Susie Bright shows readers how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and horror. She guides aspiring writers in reading erotica to discover the elements and styles that work. Then she walks them through the writing process: how to get hot ideas, devise steamy plots, use language like a pro and bring the story to a memorable climax. Each chapter features writing exercises and suggestions for non-writing activities that will galvanise the imagination and flatten any hurdle. Drawing on her own experiences, Bright explains how to find an agent, work with an editor, choose a publishing company and sell the work.

Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.

If you'd like to write erotica but struggle with knowing where to start, this book is for you. Do you have a talent for writing and a steamy imagination that you're ready to explore? Romance and erotica writers are carving out a whole new career based on self-publishing, taking their slice of an industry worth billions of dollars. Have you ever thought you might join them? Whether you want to write for pocket-money or more, How to Write Erotica is a great guide to getting started. Calista Foxton is a new erotic fiction writer. This book is a record of all the things she wishes she'd known at the beginning. From how to select your market to promoting your story, Calista walks you through every step of the way with her personal insight and plenty of practical tips that any budding author can learn from. How to Write Erotica includes choosing your kinks, avoiding procrastination, structuring your story, creating a cover, publishing your first e-book and a whole lot more. There are readers waiting for the story you're about to write. If you need a little gentle encouragement and lots of hints on starting out on the road to being the next E L James, this book is for you. Why not read and get started right away?

Fifty Shades of Grey has made Erotica the genre of the moment and thousands of creative writers will be aspiring to become the next E L James. This book is for them.

Erotic novels are more than a string of sexual scenes, they need a plot, characters and a variety of sexual encounters. This book offers realistic encouragement and tips from top-selling authors and explains how to get started, develop the plot and characters and present your work for publication.

Whether you want to write a short love scene or a complete erotic novel, every writer will find the advice Derek Parker gives indispensable. He covers language, plot, how explicit text should be and gives numerous quotations which demonstrate his points. He covers eroticism in novels and poetry. In addition he addresses the practicalities of finding a publisher, marketing work and the pros and cons of using an agent.

Named a Top 10 Erotica & Romance Book for Fall 2018 by Publishers Weekly Who knew the ancient world could be so downright . . . arousing? Like uncovering a sexy diamond in the rough, Legends of Lust reveals the fiery passions lying dormant behind your favorite mythological stories. This adults-only, debut collection of fourteen steamy, erotic short stories by Autumn Bardot is an explosion of sexy, nasty, and romantic retellings that will take your love of myths to a whole new level. Odysseus, a mere man, becomes a god-like master of the tease in the eyes of the sex-starved and eternally lustful goddess Calypso. The tale of Amazonian queen Hippolyta and Theseus gives "love at first sight" a whole new meaning that will enthrall your senses. The encounter between Vishvamitra and Menaka takes them to explosive new levels of bodily nirvana. And Gilgamesh, the mighty god-king, sends temple prostitute Shamhat to tame a wild man, but instead he teaches her something about man's most primal instincts . . . and she is not left wanting. Run wild in your personal Elysian fields of pleasure with this spicy, irreverent peek into the sensual world of our most beloved gods, heroes, fairies, and shape shifters from every corner of the earth.

Have you ever dreamt of making money by writing erotica or erotic romance? You could be on your way, thanks to Christina Palmer, author of the top ten bestseller Duty Bound and over 20 other short stories and novels. Erotica and romance are still two of the hottest genres of the moment and in this book, Christina Palmer, who has sold over 70,000 books in 13 countries is sharing her simple formula for success along with new bonus chapters. This edition will show you, step by step, how to structure and implement the basic outline of your short story and how to tailor it to your target audience, be it men or women. It includes new chapters on pricing (including a comprehensive evaluation of 35% v 70% royalties) and marketplaces, and how to make the transition from short stories to novels. New to this edition is also a special case study of bestselling author Nikki Sex, who has been wildly successful in making the transition from short stories to the longer form. Whether you want to write hard-core, soft-core or erotic romance, Christina will arm you with the simple architecture to pursue your own success as an author of sexy short erotica and also includes a foreword by Bianca James and an erotic thesaurus.

What makes a romance novel a romance? How do you write a kissing book?Writing a well-structured romance isn't the same as writing any other genre-something the popular novel and screenwriting guides don't address. The romance arc is made up of its own story beats, and the external plot and theme need to be braided to the romance arc-not the other way around.Told in conversational (and often irreverent) prose, Romancing the Beat can be read like you are sitting down to coffee with romance editor and author Gwen Hayes while she explains story structure. The way she does with her clients. Some of whom are regular inhabitants of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.Romancing the Beat is a recipe, not a rigid system. The beats don't care if you plot or outline before you write, or if you pants your way through the drafts and do a "beat check" when you're revising. Pantsers and plotters are both welcome. So sit down, grab a cuppa, and let's talk about kissing books.