Alana Melos's Blog, page 17

A Milestone!

I would also like to post before I forget, that yesterday was a milestone for me... 30 days in a row with at least one sale or borrow... that's thirty days in a row making money, which is pretty awesome. Now, granted, I write some serious... weird stuff, sprinkled with some femdom, so I consider that pretty impressive since I'm not well known or anything! I'll also have made my goal of $200.00+ this month in gross sales. I've more than made up any money I put into this, and then some.

So after...

To DRM or Not to DRM... That is the Question...

I meant to get this up last week, but I was laaaaaazy and taking a break from writing altogether. I need to get cracking on the next JKC though, and I need to get started on this new series my illustrator is entirely too excited about. He keeps making... covers for it. I keep telling him that I haven't even written the first one yet, and now he's showing me cover #7. *sigh* I guess I better do it then! He also made a teaser image ... seriously, a teaser image... for it. Lemme see if I can fin...

Finally! A Rating! Woo!

Finally, either yesterday or earlier today, someone rated not just one, but two of my books on Goodreads! Woo! The two books were Wet in Space (3 stars) and The Erotic Worlds of the Janus Key Chronicles (4 stars). Honestly, they could have been one stars, complete with a review saying something terrible, and I would have been happy... why? Because that means someone read something I wrote, and cared just enough about it to go that extra step and put in a rating. That's. Awesome. It's why I al...

Dominating Her Senator now Live!

That's right, Dominating Her Senator is now live on Amazon! These shorts turned out to be fairly well received, so I decided to do a few more in this vein.

Last Night Free on Amazon April 24th Only!

Yup, doing a free promotion again, this time the first of my horrorotica series, Last Night. I really liked it, and I think the cover is gorgeous. Maybe a free sample will get people interested in different kinds of dark erotica? We'll see. :)

Dominating Her Men: Total Domination, Volume One Now Live on Amazon!

Ah, yes, here's the second one for today, a bundle combining the three femdom stories I've written into one book, Dominating Her Men: Total Domination, Volume One is now live!

Nothing much to say here, except I noticed one tiny typo in the title which, when I can, I'll completely fix. It's a little embarrassing, but oh well. It happens, and it happened to be small enough that my eye just passed over it.

This is Why I Use DepositPhotos...

In my "real life" job, I work in customer service. It's a shitty job, in no matter what form... whether you are selling a product, doing customer reviews, or anything inbetween (I happen to do both, hurray for double stack of shit! Mm. Shit sandwich), it's important to always be friendly to the customer. As you know, people are human (gasp!) and even CSR's (Customer Service Representatives) have their off days. What's important is that you fucking eat that shit sandwich, smile, and ask for a...

Cheri's Big Break Live on Amazon!

Well, we're starting a new series today: Backstage Uncensored, Cheri's Big Break is now live on Amazon! This is going to be about a new adult film actress and her trials and tribulations. We'll see how popular it is... I noticed that like, no one was writing about that at all, which I thought would be a shoe-in, you know? I couldn't really find anything... so I decided to give it a whack. The cover is gorgeous (because Jotham does fantastic work) but from what he said, they'll be very easy af...

A Shotgun Blast or a Kick in the Ass?

... blog title pulled from some song lyrics. Which may or may not be applicable.

What should you do when writing erotica... make a wide scattershot or focus in on one area? Odds are, if you do the scattershot (ie, shotgun blast) you're going to hit something. Don't know what... but something. Advice often given to erotica writers by other erotica writers is to find your niche and write the shit out of it... but you gotta find it first.

Or, should you just concentrate in one thing which you enjo...

Slimed By Sea Serpents Now Live!

And let's see if I can remember the link this time! Yes, the latest in the Janus Key Chronicles, Slimed by Sea Serpents, is now live! Not quite as long as the last couple, it's still over 11,000 words and has three sex scenes in it... one of which, of course, has sea serpents in it. Which thankfully Amazon decided wasn't a real life monster. When I saw Jotham's cover, I got a bit worried and asked him to put fins on it since they were way too close to real snakes. Amazon gets weird about that...