I just received an email from the CEO of Pink Flamingo Publishing that she now has the naughty books of her catalog (of which my No Whip, No Problem is one) on the following book-selling portals:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookwire, Ciando, Digibooks, Dreame (Hong Kong), Ebooks.com, FemDomCave, Fiction4All, Google, Hummingbrid, Kobo, Numilog, Overdrive, PublishDrive, Smashwords.
Believe me, working on getting our titles across these 16 sites took time, energy, and guile. Although some of the spots above have built their reputation on erotica, plenty of others run scared from scintillating dirty prose (some of the above, actually). It takes a certain stick-with-it-ness to hammer away at these places week after week, hoping to slip one’s books in.
And believe me, quite often, no amount of lube will fit you in.
I don’t have a favorite in the above. It’s as thrilling for me to see my book at Barnes and Noble (see here) as it is on the Hong Kong-based Dreame (see here). I am just happy that Pink Flamingo has gained this reach, that the publisher’s hard work is paying off, and that I can do all I can to promote it.
I got in on publishing erotica in eBook ’round about 2009. Before that, I had placed stories in various magazines around the world when actual print magazines existed, but when I met the venerable Jean Marie Stine, who had been spearheading the eBook erotica field with the Sizzler Editions of her Renaissance E Books, my world opened up to the naughty words I could get out there. I am still publishing with Jean, but as she has advised me often, “go out and get others to publish you,” and I have worked hard to do so. Pink Flamingo was one of those ‘other’ publishers I pursued, knowing well their sterling reputation. I was truly humbled that they took my latest fem dom-themed short story collection and thrilled at how they have lovingly handled my title, as they do all their releases.
So, here’s a shout-out to Pink Flamingo’s tenacity and a little bit to myself. Long may erotica reign, even if it only ever rains a little a bit across the mainstream publishing world.
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