The Erotic Writer's Market Guide: Advice, Tips, and Market Listing for the Aspiring Professional Erotic Writer

by Lawrence Schimel, Rachel Kramer Bussel

With its up-to-date marketing listings, interviews with editors and working professional erotic writers, and hardhitting how-to articles, The Erotic Writer's Market Guide 1999 will be a must for any writer who has every dreamed of writing down his or her sexy fantasies and getting paid for them! Literary erotica is a burgeoning genre, which is finally beginning to get the respect it deserves with annual anthologies such as Susie Bright's Best American Erotica series and separate sections devoted to erotic books in independent bookstores and even chains like B. Dalton's and Borders. For the first time, in one place, writers can find guidelines for both book publishers and magazines, from all over the world, who are looking for erotic material. The Erotic Writer's Market Guide contains information on markets for heterosexual, pansexual, lesbian, and gay male erotic writing, with special indexes that make it easy to identify publishers seeking material that appeals to a particular fetish or kink, such as S&M.

Genres: Reference

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

I'm a full-time author, anthologist, and translator (Spanish->English) living in Madrid, Spain.

Writing in both Spanish and English, I've published over 90 books in a wide range of genres, including poetry (DESAYUNO EN LA CAMA and FAIRY TALES FOR WRITERS), children's books (LA AVENTURA DE CECILIA Y EL DRAGÓN, COSAS QUE PUEDO HACER YO SOLO, LITTLE PIRATE GOES TO SCHOOL, etc.), short stories (TWO BOYS IN LOVE, HIS TONGUE, THE DRAG QUEEN OF ELFLAND), graphic novels (VACATION IN IBIZA), and many anthologies (STREETS OF BLOOD: VAMPIRE STORIES FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTH, SWITCH HITTERS: LESBIANS WRITE GAY MALE EROTICA AND GAY MEN WRITE LESBIAN EROTICA, KOSHER MEAT, FOUND TRIBE: JEWISH COMING OUT STORIES, CAMELOT FANTASTIC, etc.)

I've twice won a Lambda Literary Award, for FIRST PERSON QUEER and PoMoSEXUALS: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GENDER AND SEXUALITY.

My picture book ¿LEES UN LIBRO CONMIGO? was selected by the International Board of Books for Young People for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities 2007 and my picture book NO HAY NADA COMO EL ORIGINAL was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich for the White Ravens 2005.

My poem "How to Make a Human" won the Rhysling Award for Best Science Fiction Poem.

I am also the publisher of A Midsummer Night's Press, a small poetry publisher, which has published THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN OUR OTHER LIFE by Achy Obejas, THE GOOD-NEIGHBOR POLICY: A DOUBLE CROSS IN DOUBLE DACTLYS by Charles Ardai, BANALITIES by Brane Mozetic, translated by Elizabeti Zargi, and FORTUNE'S LOVER: A BOOK OF TAROT POEMS by Rachel Pollack, as well as the annual series BEST GAY POETRY and BEST LESBIAN POETRY.

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main problem with producing a book like this in print is that so many things are out of date before the ink dries as to render it dangerously close to obsolete. I believe this was originally conceived of as an annual volume, which would have solved some of these problems, but that didn't work out. As a result, a number of the publishers listed have shuffled off this mortal coil and the direction of the market has changed. Erotic romance is now a much bigger segment of the erotica market than this book suggests and epublications are more profuse than print.

That said, this "Guide" makes for a decent starting place. There is a useful general writing section in the beginning which deals with some of the various issues specific to writing erotica (pseudonyms and lack thereof). The market lists include a number of good resources, and this alone would make it worth reading. Overall, I would recommend to writers beginning their erotic writing careers.