IWSG and What Do to With an Unpublishable Story

It’s that time again.  Welcome to the first Wednesday of the May and the Insecure Writer’s Support Group.  This month’s bloghop is co-hosted by the following awesome bloggers:  Stephen Tremp, Fundy Blue, MJ Fifield, Loni Townsend, Bish Denham, Susan Gourley and Stephanie Faris!  Check out their blogs and shoot them a thanks for co-hosting.

Okay, to clarify my title, the story isn’t unpublishable.  The novella is question is the killer plot bunny I mentioned a few posts back.  A bunny with some pretty considerable fangs, as someone pointed out.

 

In point of fact, this was actually an erotic plot bunny.

Yep. Took me a while to think of what picture could represent an erotic plot bunny.

Here’s the thing.  Erotica is not generally what I write.  Far from it, in fact.  My stuff is mostly YA.  While I’m not adverse to eventually self-publishing stories that skew toward an older audience, I don’t feel comfortable self-publishing erotica.  I especially don’t like the idea of linking those stories with my pen name.  The audiences would be quite different, and I don’t want to turn any potential readers off.  In a word, the thought makes me very … insecure

But there is a market for these stories.  I’d be remiss if I allowed a story I spent a good two weeks writing simply go stale on my hard drive.  It’s a good story.  I’d like to see it published.

Then I realized that’s what pen names are for!  Once I’ve revised the novella, I plan to submit to a few e-book romance and erotica publishers.  With any luck, it will get accepted.  If not, maybe in a few years, I’ll self-publish under my pen name.  We’ll see.

Cheers,

Ever written anything you would never want to share with readers?  Sound off in the comments