However, there's a HUGE market for erotic e-books with supernatural elements. The vast majority of the writers AND consumers are women, but there are plenty of men in the mix as well.
When I was updating the e-book chapter I was quite stunned at how well those folks are doing.
I don't know how the print porn market is doing. I know that the closure of so many small bookstores over the past decade has but a serious crimp in the sales of independent publishers and that many have, as a consequence, also folded. Many regular porno mags have gone over to for-pay pictures-only web sites and dispensed with the stories all together.
OTOH, there are still quite a few mags and book printers out there and while some of them try to have high standards, there aren't as many people trying to write really great porn as there are people trying to write really great regular fiction. Far too many porn writers fall in their particular set of clichés... the porn slush piles are just a little weirder.
So if you're interested in writing regular porn, with no SF or F in it, there are plenty of markets. If you're interested in adding SF&F elements, I'd recommend going with traditional fantasy or supernatural elements rather than SF and going with e-books.
Google for "erotic ebook publisher" without the quotes. I remember Ellora's Cave (http://www.ellorascave.com) being a big site.
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However, there's a HUGE market for erotic e-books with supernatural elements. The vast majority of the writers AND consumers are women, but there are plenty of men in the mix as well.
When I was updating the e-book chapter I was quite stunned at how well those folks are doing.
I don't know how the print porn market is doing. I know that the closure of so many small bookstores over the past decade has but a serious crimp in the sales of independent publishers and that many have, as a consequence, also folded. Many regular porno mags have gone over to for-pay pictures-only web sites and dispensed with the stories all together.
OTOH, there are still quite a few mags and book printers out there and while some of them try to have high standards, there aren't as many people trying to write really great porn as there are people trying to write really great regular fiction. Far too many porn writers fall in their particular set of clichés... the porn slush piles are just a little weirder.
So if you're interested in writing regular porn, with no SF or F in it, there are plenty of markets. If you're interested in adding SF&F elements, I'd recommend going with traditional fantasy or supernatural elements rather than SF and going with e-books.
Google for "erotic ebook publisher" without the quotes. I remember Ellora's Cave (http://www.ellorascave.com) being a big site.