How to Make Money Writing Erotica on Amazon Kindle

Make extra money online by starting a side hustle, or full time job, writing erotica and publishing it on Amazon Kindle.

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On my quest to continue finding new and fun ways to earn money online, I recently discovered that people are making money by publishing erotic short stories on Amazon, and it turns out that they’re making a TON of money while doing it!

I’ve been writing online for a few years now, but writing erotic stories and publishing them on the internet is not something that I’ve done or even knew anything about.

Once I discovered it was a legitimate money making opportunity, I knew that I had to research it and learn what was happening in this seemingly random, but incredibly volatile online market.

If you’re like me and are always looking for new ways to make money online, I definitely recommend reading my post How To Make Money Selling Pictures Of Your Feet On OnlyFans. For me, learning about writing erotica for money came after learning about selling feet pictures for money. And if you’re going to jump into these exciting markets, why not jump all of the way in?

While researching how to make money writing erotica online, I also learned that tons of people are making boat loads of money every single day through this opportunity. Like six-figure per year boat loads, which is infinitely more money than I ever expected was possible.

And the key, I’ve learned, is to pump out consistent content and your sales and income will sky rocket. It seems that quantity is the key to success with selling erotica online for money, and that’s a business model I can get behind.

Whether you’re looking to start a side hustle for extra money, or looking to earn a full time income to be able to leave your day job – writing erotica and publishing it on Amazon Kindle may be the business idea for you!

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My favourite part about this side hustle idea is that it takes absolutely zero previous experience. You can be a complete newbie to both writing and publishing online, and it doesn’t matter at all. I love money making ventures that are inclusive, and writing erotica online definitely is!

Getting started and learning the best way to go about everything is easy once you know where to start, and I’ve put together a short guide to help you do exactly that.

After reading tons of good and not-so-good information, I’ve compiled everything I learned to show you how to go about approaching this in a way that is completely free and will set you up for success from the beginning!

Why sell erotica online?

I was pretty much sold on giving this side hustle a try immediately after learning that other people were making six figures every year by publishing short stories online. If you need a little more motivation to give this avenue a shot, here are some of the best reasons that you should sell erotica online:

Start a passive income stream

Once you get the ball rolling and start publishing multiple stories, all of your past published books will continue to sell and will actually pick up steam as you publish more and more.

It’s sort of like a fire: once you get it started and have a big enough flame burning, you can continue to keep the fire burning brightly by adding an extra story in here and there to feed the flames.

Once your work is published, it will always be listed for sale as long as you decide it is. Your books will continue to sell and make money which is perfect for a side hustle, and they’ll continue to sell more and more if you consistently release more books, which is perfect for turning it into a six figure income.

If you want a side hustle, release a few books now and then. If you want a full time income, be consistent and release stories regularly!

Anyone can do this

There is pretty much no barrier to entry with writing erotica online and publishing it on Amazon. I can promise you this, because I had absolutely zero experience reading or writing erotica, and I successfully wrote and published my first erotic short on Amazon – and have already made money from it!

I’m not kidding when I say that I had zero experience. I literally wrote my first erotic story before I had ever even read one. It turned out pretty good I think, but don’t be like me. I’ll tell you exactly what I should have done differently, and what you can do to get started successfully (for free!) below.

So if you’re worried that your writing won’t be good enough or that you don’t know how to get started, fear not. If I can write a story, publish it, and make money in my first week – so can you!

Amazon is everybody’s friend – and this bodes well for you

If you weren’t aware of the infinite number of products that Amazon sells, I’m here to remind you that Amazon has an entire store, their Kindle Store, that is devoted to selling eBooks on their website.

The Amazon Kindle Store is one of the biggest supplier of eBooks online, with around one million eBooks being published to the Kindle Store every year.

Amazon also allows us to publish our eBooks completely free using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). So between the amount of Kindle readers ready to read our books and KDP ready to help us create them, it’s a friendship made in heaven.

How to start selling erotica on Amazon Kindle

Whether you’re hoping to make a bit of extra money every month as a side hustle or turn this into a full time income, getting started will look the exact same and you can be up and running in just one day.

I started my erotica writing journey after researching almost everything that I could, and had my first short erotic story written not too long after. One of my biggest tips is to not overthink everything and spend too much time on any decision. You can adjust and adapt later on, and just jumping in head first will serve you better than spending an entire week thinking and planning. Now is the time to be a do-er.

1. Learn from a pro (for free!)

The absolute biggest, most important step you can take right now is to learn everything from a professional six-figure author (which I definitely am not) and start your erotic writing journey on the right foot.

I wrote my first story before discovering this golden resource, and I can definitely say that my life would have been a million times easier if I knew about it first.

The ALL-NEW Six-Figure Erotica Author: How I Make Six Figures Self-Publishing Erotica by Jade K. Scott is the one resource that will teach you absolutely every single thing that you need to know about getting started on your writing journey, publishing your first book, and scaling your business so that you can reach the point that she has reached – becoming a six figure author!

And one of the best parts about this resource is that you can read it for free!

Jade K. Scott has enrolled this book in Kindle Unlimited, which means that if you already have a Kindle Unlimited membership than you can just click on the link and read the book for free.

And if you don’t have a Kindle Unlimited membership, which I didn’t before, you can get a 30-day free trial from Amazon and read as many eBooks as you want – completely free!

You can get your 30-day free trial for Kindle Unlimited here.

After you’ve signed up for your free trial, you can download The ALL-NEW Six-Figure Erotica Author and go to town reading the 50 page eBook guide that covers literally everything you need to know about writing erotica and selling it on Amazon.

There are a lot of trade secrets, tips and tricks, and information on what NOT to do when it comes to selling on Amazon. There were quite a few rules that I wasn’t aware of when it comes to publishing erotica on Amazon, and Jade K. Scott covers everything so that you can write successfully and not have your book denied and put in “book jail” by Amazon.

If you’re looking for even more how-to books to further help you with the more technical writing aspects afterwards, I recommend:

• How to Write Erotica: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing and Publishing Short Erotica
• How to Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors
• Naughty Words for Nice Writers: A Romance Novel Thesaurus
• The Erotica Handbook: A guide to making $100 an hour writing erotica short stories and selling them online

Sign up for Kindle Unlimited for free and get reading!

2. Pick a niche

One of the most important deciding factors on whether or not your book will make it big is the topic that you decide to write about.

There are countless niches, in a huge range of topics. Picking a niche to write in will be a balance of which ones are popular, and which ones you know a little something about.

My advice would be to check out the erotica section of the Kindle Store, browse around, and take notice of the niches that you know about and could see yourself writing in.

It could be the perfect niche, but if you have no idea what to write about, it won’t end up being a successful one for you.

3. Pick a pen name

Almost every single erotic writer out there uses a pen name to publish under that isn’t related to their real name.

A good pen name will be catchy and easy for your readers to remember, so sticking to simple and mostly common names is a must.

A big tip that I read is to pick a woman’s name, or a name that could be either gender like Jamie or Jordan. Most readers will reach for books written by women, so even the majority of male erotic writers choose a female pen name.

4. Dive in and start writing

The trick here is to not overthink anything. Sit down in front of your computer, think about your chosen niche for a few minutes, and start typing.

Some people find it helpful to have a plot outline already in their mind when they start. Others find it easier to just sit down and go with the flow, seeing what magic will tumble out.

I had a very basic idea of what I was going to write about when I sat down, but that was all of the planning that I did. I ended up writing an entire short story of 4500 words in one sitting, which took me about 1.5 hours from start to finish.

I definitely wasn’t expecting to finish my first story in my first sitting, but that’s why just sitting down to write and seeing what happens is so important – you never know what story and ideas will form unless you actually do it.

5. Creating a cover & eBook formatting

After your book is written and proofread, you’ll need to make a cover so that it catches the eyes of your potential readers.

Jade K. Scott goes over this in The ALL-NEW Six-Figure Erotica Author, but I wanted to add what I did to make my free eBook covers look pretty good for a newbie.

Since you need to have a licensed photo to use for your eBook cover, a way to get FREE licensed images is to sign up for Shutterstock’s free trial and you’ll be able to download 10 high quality images completely free!

I’m all about those free trials if you haven’t noticed, and by utilizing them you’re able to test out writing and publishing your first erotic stories without any risk so that you can dip your feet in and make pure profit.

When it comes to creating your book cover with your images from Shutterstock, I recommend using Canva to add your title and author name onto your images and do any other editing you want to do. You can use the free version of Canva, or you can try their 30-day free trial to Canva Pro to use a wider variety of fonts (or upload your own) and editing tools.

If you’d prefer to have someone else design your eBook cover, you can hop over to Fiverr and hire someone to create your cover for as little as $5!

Your next step is to turn your story into an eBook, which can be done easily and completely free using Kindle Create from Amazon.

You can find all of the information from Amazon here, and they’ll walk you through step-by-step how to turn your written document into an eBook that will be uploaded for sale in the Kindle Store.

This was my first time converting a Word document into an eBook, and I found the process to be incredibly painless as long as you follow the steps in the guide from Amazon.

Once you’re equipped with your copy of The ALL-NEW Six-Figure Erotica Author and the Kindle Direct Publishing guide, you’re ready to start writing your own erotica short stories and release them in the Kindle Store for others to buy and read. The only step left to take now is to start!

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