From my “writing is easy, selling is difficult, and it feels dirty-to-boot, and not in a good way” file:
HuffPost’s Bethany Sales on Fifty Shades of Grey: The New Publishing Paradigm
YOUR CHALLENGE: Track back all the other titles and authors mentioned and research what THEY did. Oh, you did that already? Clever you. I live under a pop-culture rock. Also, I have a life. And a job. Non-imaginary (wink) lovers. And… wah. So many excuses…
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About mjanecolette
Writer. Reader. Angster. Reformed Bohemian (not). Author of the erotic romance TELL ME, the erotic tragedy (with a happy ending) CONSEQUENCES (of defensive adultery), the award-winning rom-com (she's versatile) CHERRY PIE CURE, and TEXT ME, CUPID--a (slightly dirty) love story for 21st century adults who don't believe in love... but want it anyway. A sought-after speaker and presenter, Colette is also the author of the Dirty Writing Secrets Series, which includes the non-fiction collection of essays ROUGH DRAFT CONFESSIONS: not a guide to writing and selling erotica and romance but full of inside inside anyway, 101 FLIRTY WRITING PROMPTS TO SEDUCE YOUR MUSE, and ORGANIZED CREATIVE. She's also the curator of the fab YYC Queer Writers anthologies Queer Christmas in Cowtown, Screw Chocolate, and A Queer Summer Night's in Cowtown. Releasing Spring 2020: CUPID IN MONTE CARLO.
m jane colette 
I’m done with all this teasing, let’s have it already!