The first Blog post is always interesting. I write erotic fiction, but I try to be a good writer no matter what genre I put to page.

Who is my target audience?

Women read more erotica than men, but I get the feeling you’ll quickly get a taste for my style or you won’t and that’s okay. Pleasing everyone is a fool’s errand. So, I aim to just write what I feel I can relate to and be convincing with. I have FIVE short stories out right now, using Smashwords, as my primary ePublisher, but they still distribute to another broad range of eBook retailers.

What got me into this?

Good question. I’ve always been writing something and I started writing poetry, then short stories. As a veteran, I began to write erotica to send back home to my wife whenever I was deployed for extended periods of time. I never really did anything with it. It was just for us. At most, I would contemplate writing for Penthouse Forum. I enjoyed reading those stories.

However, all that evolved into a novel I’ve been working on for the last two years. I travel like a backpacking tourist around the world. If I like a place, I’ll stay for extended periods of time… anywhere from 3 to 6 months usually. I photograph artistic nudes and landscape over my travels. But one summer in Nicaragua, something began in me that sat me down for a minimum of 8 hours every single day. I wrote 6 or 7 short stories and realized they all fit as back to back chapters, despite not being an intentional or conscious effort.

I followed it through to see where it took me. Two years later and roughly 2500 pages, I concluded it. An suitable analogy would be Forrest Gump deciding to one day go for a run. Then on the other side of the country he stops and decides that’s enough. The story poured out of me until the tap was depleted. My next problem was publishing. I had no desire to hunt for a publisher and pray for their goodwill to publish and motivation to promote me. I needed to get onto my next story! I chose Smashwords over Kindle Direct for reasons I believe were right for me.

What is next?

I’ll continue to write erotic fiction! It’s fun, so why not? I can learn the Smashwords system to better sell, but I feel good about it. In a month, I’ve had almost 300 readers on my short stories, but I want to really develop my style before putting out my erotic adventure series due out soon. SEVEN books! I’ll talk more about it in the coming weeks. It’s explicit, but damn it… I have excellent plot and character development. This is a story that happens to include all things sex.

So get ready. I hope you enjoy this ride with me. Follow along. Check out my Smashwords profile and check out my current books. I’ll talk about them soon as well.