Given that much of my stuff is pretty much out there, I'm always curious where my book shows up. Mainly in desperate hopes it will get reviewed, but that's a different story. My first novel, The Mummy's Girl has pretty much been just sitting in the shadows, but Eliza and the Raptor is pretty much in my conscious thoughts.

Sadly… “mummy” is a very bad word to key from when it comes to erotica. Way too many “I fucked mummy” types of stories. I wish there was a more specific term to “guy with huge cock wrapped in bandages and frisky as hell”, but… there isn't.

Likewise, after the dino porn surge (where people found out they can make money writing dinosaur erotica and therefore wrote a lot of it), Eliza is pretty much lost in the details.

Recently, Ereaderotica has been doing some posts trying to categorize erotica to give a lot more categories to help people find their niches. So, you'd think I'd get up there. No. Not at all, really.

The stop of the store is at http://ere-store.com/. Mummy's Girl is on the ninth page of Fantasy -> Undead -> Mummies. Eliza is way down on the Action and Adventure ->Pulp Fiction and Taboo -> Dinosaur.

Help

I have to give a little shout out to the people who run the store. I sent an email asking where my two little books are and they were very helpful in not only finding it, but also giving me some keyword changes to improve where they stand.

It was very nice… except for being all the way down there.

Linkage

Sadly, I can't give links to the ERE store categories because of how the site works. It uses Amazon's shopping cart system in a frame which… doesn't bode well for linking.

I actually want to write an erotica discovery service some day, but… I keep finding other projects. But, this is working today and I won't ever finish that project.

Dislikes

There are a few things I don't like about the ERE store, but they are mostly based on the underlying source of data (Amazon) and nothing they can control.

The biggest one is length. Smashwords has this and I love the feature. Most erotic stories on Amazon are in the 10k word range. Short stories, enough for a stroke session or two. My stuff isn't in that range. Mummy's is 120k words and Eliza is 70k. This is well past three sigma of standard lengths of erotic stories and I think it would help distinguish authors who go for long-form erotica.

Over in one of my experimental bylines, I noticed that writing 10k stories can be considered “unexpectedly” long in some genres too. Which means that writing a 10k story would ideally be a selling point.

Even if Amazon did provide length as a filter category, it would take a lot of work to use their infrastructure to say “mummy AND over 100k words” which is where my books shine.

The second thing is “mummy”. There is a big different between (pseudo-)incest and undead. Sadly, there isn't a good way of making that difference in only Amazon keywords. Again, not much else since I don't know if Amazon allows for “fantasy AND mummy” or “fantasy AND undead AND mummy” in their store API.

And the final thing, which is a general problem for my writing, is that I don't reviews. Most of the submission places don't seem to like monster porn (my favorite) or fantasy. More so for long form since it appears that many of them focus on shorter pieces instead of novel length.

Regardless

No matter what said, the ERE Store is a good place to start when looking for erotica. They have some really interesting categories and ideas, such as emotional state or trying to break down things into much finer categories.

Also, and probably the most important, they list books that have been adult filtered by Amazon. Which all of my books are because I like nearly naked people on covers. And giving people a chance to find my book is probably one of the easier ways of crawling off of page fifty and try to get near the top of one of those categories (besides reincarnation, which I dominate because I pretty much have the only book there).