/lit/ - Literature

>>10765247
Finish it, get shitfaced in celebrating. Go to the publication office with a hangover and get published

>>10765275
Well see that's what I mean by what now.

Where do I go? Who do I ask? It's a niche as fuck book but it's got a lot of positive feedback. I think that maybe, if I'm lucky, I can make it a minor success. But I have no idea how to sell it to someone.

>>10765286
> here's my book
> explain generally summary
> if you did some weird literally shit like iambic pentameter then say that
> wait for their feedback when they finish reading it
If it gets success make a new book

>>10765338
But who is THEY?

There's not just a big building called "we publish shit".

>>10765342
You need a publishing agent to rep your work

>>10765361
I'm aware.

I'm just having a bit of difficulty pitching this particular work to an agent because I have no idea what kind of work this would even be considered.
Maybe I should just go ahead and preface this by saying this is an erotic novel about a vampire and a masochistic human which started out as gay porn and slowly turned into a story about domestic abuse.

Hence why I'm having trouble defining the genre and pitching it.

>>10765377
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Amazon have a free self publishing thingy? You could try that

>>10765398
I considered that. I was worried about where it would end up going and if I'd be able to export it elsewhere if it got big.

>>10765401
> if it got big.
Anon, please

>>10765411
You're right. I'm sorry for my hopes and dreams. Kill me.

>>10765398
Amazon gives more than triple the royalty than traditional publishers too. You can make it an e book and a paperback

Just e publish it right now, OP

>>10765455
Fuck it I'm gonna do it.

I'd like an editor though, first. I've been writing this book over the course of five years and it's have massive rises and dips in quality.

If anyone wants to read it, I've been putting the chapters out on Literotica.

https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=2084583&page=submissions

>>10765488
> gay erotica
I don't know what I expected, but fuck did I set the bar too high

>>10765500
I've read tons of Star Wars slash, I'm not going to pretend I'm above this sort of thing

>>10765500
You mean you didn't read the post where I said it started out as gay porn

And you didn't see the pic in first post and I said pic kinda related which also had a gay vampire in it

It's gay erotica. It's just extremely detailed and feelsy gay erotica. Basically if you took out all the sex scenes it'd be your average not-shit young adult novel.

>>10765508
I just read niche
And I thought the pic was about you sucking the publisher off
> the guy who drew that picture is pretty good I guess

Well, if anyone's willing to be an editor for me, I'd love it. It needs turning up here and there, but it should be ready to go in a month.

Made a cover for it.

>>10765594
If you make it a PDF I'll read it in a week and tell you hi what I thought
But I'm not gay so I can't really rate the authenticity of the Sex scenes

>>10765623
Eh, I'm not all that worried about the sex scenes. They're the highest rated.

Lemme see what I can do.

>>10765623
https://ufile.io/rbtqt

The format's shit cuz I've been working on it in OTD and it doesn't translate well to PDF, and it's really long, but have fun.

And seriously, don't worry about not being into the gay part. I wanted to make it kind of like... sexy enough that it wouldn't matter what the gender of the characters was.

>>10765664
Also you can tell me the first few chapters suck, I wrote them like five years ago. It doesn't really get any good until chapter four or five. I need to rewrite those, I just don't know how.

>>10765664
>>10765673
Alright
Lookout for a thread next week, I'll use your cover as OP pic

>>10765488
>its literally gay vampire fanfic-tier erotica

Well fuck me, I honestly thought you were being ironic when you said that. The absolute state of /lit/ lmao.

How would you even pitch this to an editor with a straight face?

>>10765769
>Straight face
What the fuck is that supposed to mean you intolerant fucking wife beater?

>>10765247
Are you one of those homosexual authors? Like John Green or that Jap dude?

>>10765247
Are you qt

>>10765769
he clearly has a fag face m8, he doesn't need a straight one. I wouldn't read it but don't pretend there aren't millions of reddit homos who wouldn't suck the cum outta this shit.

>>10765342
Some publishers accept unsolicited manuscrpts.

>>10765628
>they're the highest rated
kek, somebody screen cap this shit. So much faggotry it's almost straight

>>10765247
Hey, dude. I'm an editor working at New Directions, we are currently preparing a series of homosexual books, yours can be one of those if it meets the required criteria we're looking for. Also, how's "The Sucker" for a title? Let me know, pal.

>>10766037
>a series of homosexual books
You're an editor, you say? Is it for a Junior High news flyer?

>>10766061
No, it's for faggy books like yours.

>>10766075
My books are just a little effeminate, stop being so judgemental

>>10766075
Also poetry and such.

>>10766079
Dont worry, effeminate sells like crazy. Now with Call Me by Your Name there's a craving for gay stuff.

>>10766087
Just have to properly market it. And the title is 50% of the job.

>>10766037
>>10766075
>>10766080
>>10766087
>>10766093
Same person, right?

>>10766101
Yep.

>>10766101
No.

>>10766101
no

>>10766101
Maybe

>>10766101
I don't know

>>10766075
kek

>>10766093
Can we suggest titles? I'll go first:
Bloody Fangs
Live Flesh
Sucky the Vampire's Adventures
Inside Your Neck
Unlimited Blood

>>10765488
And we're back on track for standard /lit/

>>10766152
I'm OP, I haven't been on all night.

The book's title is Hematoma and it's gonna stay that way. And it's definitely not trashy erotica by any means. It wouldn't fit in with your standard corset busters or wank material which is why I'm having a hard time deciding what to do with it.

>>10766101
can you repeat the question?

>>10765247
>>10765488

>https://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=2084583&page=submissions

I like your prose, and the poeticism in your diction sounds nice, which is interesting considering the subject matter.
It's up to you to decide what is meaningful to make with your talent, and i'd never say that writing erotica is "beneath" you. I just hope you decide to continue writing. I'm not gay so i don't think i'd ever buy your book tho, sorry.

>>10767272
Ok, my bad, that's a good title.

>>10767922
Thank you. From a straight guy that might be the best critique I can get lol.

I'm not even gay myself, though I am bisexual. I just think there's something artsy about homosex. Like that sexual tension in greek statues.

>>10765488

You spent five years writing about gay vampires?

I'm not even trying to be a dick, honestly, hats off to you, that's dedication.

>>10769067
It's a passion project. It developed from erotica to drama after I got out of an extremely abusive relationship, and eventually the story became about the abuse and psychological trauma dealt with by the MC through his relationship with the vampire. There's still a ton of sex scenes, but it becomes extremely dark and several of my readers confess they've either cried over it or had to stop reading because it hit too close to home.

I'd like to give some of the proceeds (if it sells) to benefit male victims of domestic abuse.

>>10765247
>What the fuck do I do now?
you suck my dick

>>10769112

>>10767272
How about "Homotoba"?

>>10769145
I know this is a joke but I personally believe that just because a piece of media has homosexual relations in it, it doesn't specifically have to be marketed as gay.

>>10769084
Your boyfriend abused you? Like, did he hit you and stuff?

Ive some title ideas....
"Count Dickula."
"Blood, Sweat and Semen."
"Vampire Love"
"Suck this."
"The Fangtastic Sexual Awakenings of the Homosexual Vamp."

>>10769161
No, he emotionally and mentally abused me. He would watch me sleep and talk to me while I was sleeping, like deep sleep hypnosis, made me keep my Skype on at night so he could do it while we weren't together. I thought that was romantic for some reason. He also made me feel inadequate in bed, he was my first time and told me I was too tight for him to enjoy, and when I loosened up for him he told me I felt like a dead fish. He would masturbate and make me wait in the kitchen for him to finish because I wasn't good enough. He eventually started telling my family that something in my lifestyle wasn't real and that I was only doing it for attention, which they already had suspected. He also knew something I'd done in my past that I wasn't proud of and he would tell me things like "If anyone knew you did this, they would never want to be around you. I'm the only person who could love you even though you did this."

So I attempted suicide like three times because of him. I had started writing this book a little before I left him but it escalated after my third hospitalization and once he was out of my life.

Also I can really only talk about this stuff because I'm anonymous, most of my real-life friends and family don't know why I was hospitalized.

>>10769169
>Suck This
top kek

>>10769182
>He eventually started telling my family that something in my lifestyle wasn't real and that I was only doing it for attention, which they already had suspected.

Mum, I fuck dudes for inspiration, you wouldn't get it.

>>10769200
I don't want to talk about what it was he told them was fake, but they knew I liked dudes, that was no secret.

>>10769182
>I was too tight for him to enjoy

Your anus was tight? did you loosen up by having sex with other people?

>>10769206
No, I bought toys and practiced while he was gone. By the time he tried again he said he could barely feel me. The toys I used were super small, too.

Everyone I've been with, girl and guy, since him has been happy with me, so he was just a monster. But it was years before I could get over that sense of inadequacy he gave me. I still have trouble.

>>10769182
Your vampire theme and relationship experience made me think of Vampyre of Time and Memory by QOTSA, give it a listen, OP. Take care, hope you get it published.

>>10769218
Oh man, I love QOTSA. I listened to them a lot when I was writing. I can't say I've heard that song though. If it's on Like Clockwork that's probably why. Era Vulgaris is my favorite.

Astaghfirullah.

>>10769151
Absolutely my dude. I was just fooling around. In all honesty, I hope it goes well buddy.

>>10769281
Yo thanks.

For real, give it a read if you feel inclined. I hoped that the characters didn't actually come across as effeminate in any way.

>>10765377
If that's what you want to be remembered for (if you're lucky) then go for it my man

>>10769322
Yeah, I'd be happy to have that in my history. I'm proud of it.

This was the first version of my cover but I don't know how I feel about it.

Honestly I'm not happy with the second version either. What should I do for the artwork?

>>10769285
I might just give it a read my dude

>>10769407
Thank you. I'd actually much rather get the opinion of people who aren't reading it for the porn so I can judge it as a novel as well as erotica.

>>10769415
Id ask someone that's read all of it to give you advice on artwork

>>10770063
Will do. Thanks.

>>10770066
Don't put a vampire or whatever on the cover though , might shoehorn you a bit

>>10770261
I'm not intending to. The story is written from the perspective of the MC and I want to show him, possibly his piercings, bruises, tattoos, bite marks.

Originally I had wanted it to be the tattoo that he ends up with on his back but it's too elaborate for my pleb skills.

>>10765377

> this is an erotic novel about a vampire and a masochistic human which started out as gay porn and slowly turned into a story about domestic abuse.

Well....it certainly sounds original. Youve got me curious.

>>10765247
Not OP but is it pretentious if I try to create my own genre for my book?

I could squeeze it into a couple of genre's but it doesn't fit exactly.

>>10770305
I mean, if I had to summarize...

The MC, Shay, is a masochist, addicted to pain, it's the only way he can get off. His main vice is tattoos and piercings. There's a scene in there where he tries to have a normal sexual encounter with someone and he ends up slicing his hand just to finish, partner calls him crazy and fucks off and Shay cries himself to sleep.

Shay then ends up confiding in his local tattoo artist, Yorick/"Ricky", who finds out that Shay has a pain fetish and decides to indulge him. A couple sessions in, Ricky confesses that he's a vampire and if Shay wants to go further, then he has to give up his blood. Vampires have no pulse, and they can't get hard without blood.

Shay agrees, there's tons of crazy vampire sex, eventually it crops up that Ricky is a sort of "outlaw" from the society that looks after the nation's vampires, although Shay isn't entirely clear on or doesn't believe the reasons.

But as time goes on, it becomes apparent that Ricky is going further with things than Shay is comfortable or tolerable of, all the while assuring Shay that because of his tendencies, he won't find someone else who would be with him the way Ricky is. It just escalates from there.

>>10770332
>When Shay stakes Ricky in a metaphorical reversal of all the times Ricky penetrated Shay with hard, foreign objects

>>10770342
Oh damn. He didn't stake him but god can you imagine.

Spoiler alert, Ricky does die. Thank god.