demiurgent | Money, as t'were.

I'm better off, financially, than a lot of people I know. But things get tight. We all know that. And they've been getting tight more often, lately. Nothing to scream or panic about, mind (and this is not a funding/call for help drive or anything.)

My New England spirit says "I should get a second job." But my day job provides me with many benefits that require the flexibility of going in and working on machines when it's needed, which makes taking alternate work unfeasible. (I can't very well work a convenience store job only to have to leave it to bring the mail server back to life.)

So. Is there a reputable part time online job out there that people can recommend? The kind of thing I can do in spare hours just to pad income a bit, without abrogating my responsibility to my school (and maintaining the flexibility I need to, oh, drive to Ottawa every couple of weeks and make kissy noises with Weds). Obviously, I've seen all the scams you have. And tee shirts beat me savagely, so I'm not looking at doing that again any time soon. So I will harness the power of the internet for help, and junk.

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But how does one sell it? Where does one go?

Um, ok, full disclosure - I edited the book and I work for Circlet Press (http://www.circlet.com).

BUT, Circlet Press published The Erotic Writer's Market Guide which talks about how to write porn and provides lots of markets.

You can also Google for "erotic writer markets" (and similar key words) and find at least three or four sites that list lots of markets for writing porn.

AND, last but not least, http://www.writersmarket.com/ is the online version of those gigantic freakin' books you see (like the 2007 Poet's Market). They add new markets constantly. There are quite a few erotic markets there.

How... robust is said market, these days? I mean, Circlet is cool. They do SF porn. But it's niche enough that it's the only real market for it, and that means thinking twice, since rejection's always more likely than acceptance.

Ok, the SF porn short story market is NOT robust.

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.

Money, as t'were.

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