Mammoth Erotica rejection
Jun. 25th, 2006 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesMaxim Jakubowski has started sending out responses to Mammoth Book of Erotica 6 submissions. Unfortunately mine was "didn't quite work for me". :-(
These were reprints, of course, so I've already had one bite of the cherry with them. One of them is on the list of short stories that my Loose Id editor would like to see expanded to novella length, and the other has already been in one anthology and on a Katrina fundraiser blogzine, so I'm not terribly disappointed, even though I would have very much liked the exposure to another group of readers. But I've already got a couple of shorts hanging around that should have been sent out again a couple of weeks back, only I was having tonsillitis at the time, so today is the day for trawling the submissions guidelines at ERA.
1300 words on Friday, none yesterday. My royalty statement came in yesterday, giving me an incentive to keep writing. I don't make anywhere near a living from the ebooks, but I've made enough money to make it well worth my while. Having a backlist is good, because a dozen or two sales each month on the books that have been out for over a year may not sound like much, but it adds up over the number of titles I have out.
These were reprints, of course, so I've already had one bite of the cherry with them. One of them is on the list of short stories that my Loose Id editor would like to see expanded to novella length, and the other has already been in one anthology and on a Katrina fundraiser blogzine, so I'm not terribly disappointed, even though I would have very much liked the exposure to another group of readers. But I've already got a couple of shorts hanging around that should have been sent out again a couple of weeks back, only I was having tonsillitis at the time, so today is the day for trawling the submissions guidelines at ERA.
1300 words on Friday, none yesterday. My royalty statement came in yesterday, giving me an incentive to keep writing. I don't make anywhere near a living from the ebooks, but I've made enough money to make it well worth my while. Having a backlist is good, because a dozen or two sales each month on the books that have been out for over a year may not sound like much, but it adds up over the number of titles I have out.
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Date: 2006-06-26 05:59 am (UTC)Congrats on the ebooks income. I bet that would come as a surprise to some bookbound folks, who tend to think e-books can't possibly make anyone any money.
How many titles is it now?
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:13 am (UTC)Of course, a lot of ebooks *don't* make much money. But Loose Id does have real live editors and proof-readers, something which has been noticed and commented on by readers. They've also been doing m/m right from the start, so they have a decent LGBT section in the catalogue to attract readers.
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Date: 2006-06-26 09:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-06-26 02:49 pm (UTC)I'll note that epublishing is no more immune to vanity presses etc than is print publishing. But that's the point - there are an awful lot of vanity presses out there in print land as well...
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Date: 2006-06-26 07:42 pm (UTC)