Sonia Shade's Erotica

That is a good question! A lot of people don't actually realize how hard it is to sell a story or a book                                                             Social Media   I know, this is what every single blogger etc says. And they would be right. It is true social media is a very powerful marketing tool. You don't need to have hundreds of thousands of followers because of how social media works your post can be spread to hundreds of thousands of people even if those accounts don't follow you. A lot of people think you need 1000s of followers to use social media effectively to market your writing. But actually, you only need a few people that have large amounts of followers that follow you! Case in point my second week of publishing stories at the time I had just four short erotic stories published. I decided to do a free promotion on Amazon. Because it was free! I was dreaming people would download it and give me fame and then they would buy my o

 I write erotica! I write smut! I write dirty stories! That is not something most people would ever admit to or even think that they would say to someone. Erotica in a way is still a taboo subject. Would you admit it to your mother? I know I haven’t! I was asked by my partner’s family what I write and it was hmm ermm well romance. And it isn’t because I am ashamed of writing erotica it’s just because I really don’t want to deal with the questions. No, the stories are not based in any way on my life. No, I don’t need experience of the events to write about them any more than a fantasy writer needs to know how to do magic to write about a wizard. Don’t expect fame Every one of my stories has zero reviews on Amazon! Zero! Even the story that was downloaded ninety times in a day! Why is that? Because the people that read erotica do not want people knowing they read it, so they don’t usually write reviews. Yes, I know some books do have reviews on Amazon etc but if you hav