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Everything I know about self-publishing and selling books in January 2026
This is a 4,000+ word post that's exactly what it says on the tin. I want to put it up on Medium, but first I figured I'd share it here in case people have feedback or follow-up questions that help me revise a bit. (Also, I post to Tumblr multiple times a day, so posting here shortcuts whatever psychological barrier keeps me writer's-blocked on Medium.)
Update: Here's the full post (now 5,000 words!) on Medium.
In October, I shared my first post in this series about small-scale publishing and book sales options and the best ways to support your favorite small presses and independent authors. To be honest, that first post was a bummer â mostly about how censorship from payment processors has made it hard to distribute writing about sex through most e-commerce platforms. Todayâs post is more optimistic! (At the same time, I worry that even as I write it, parts are becoming datedâthe world of publishing changes fast. Iâll give the most current information I have, and may add updates throughout 2026!)
Technology has opened up many options for publishingâso many it can be bewildering. Different sites have different content guidelines, file format requirements, and royalty rates. Someâespecially Amazonâhave huge numbers of buyers browsing them. Others, like IngramSpark, need authors to point their readers to them.
Some indie authors focus only on Amazon, while others âgo wide,â distributing to other websites and bookstores. Iâm in the latter camp for both practical and political reasons. Jeff Bezos has enough wealth and power. Iâm also, after the experiences described in my previous post, wary of putting all my ebook eggs in one distribution basket.
For going wide, the easiest one-stop-shop is Draft2Digital (which has now partnered with, or absorbed, the publishing arm of Smashwords).
Draft2Digital with Expanded Distribution (Meatgrinder No More!)
A few names here, all managed by the same entity: First, readers and writers may be familiar with Draft2Digital from its Books2Read Universal Book Links, where you can share nearly every bookstore that offers your title with a single click. You can use these even if you donât publish through Draft2Digital.
Smashwords used to be an ebook distributor (sometimes mistakenly called a âpublisher), but now it is only a storefront through which ebooks are sold. It has a competitive royalty rateârecently decreased, but still higher than Amazonâand some of the most inclusive content guidelines, so long as books are clearly labeled. You can sell books on Smashwords, and elsewhere, by uploading your files on Draft2Digital and clicking some buttons to distribute them.
Draft2Digitalâs website is where authors enter a bookâs metadataâuploading files of the cover art and story text, typing in keywords and story description, and so onâand where the conversion from a text file into an .epub or .mobi happens. Compared to Smashwordsâ converter, known as the âMeatgrinder,â D2D is a lot simpler, though also less flexible. Itâs like bowling with the bumpers up. If you, like me, have spent hours of your life troubleshooting a manuscript that just wonât convert right on Smashwords, hearing Draft2Digital say âWe guarantee that anything we produce will pass Epubcheck, meaning it meets the technical standards for all our digital storesâ is a relief.
Draft2Digital offers a few formatting options for headers, scene breaks, and drop caps (big letters at the beginning of a scene or chapter), which you can select and preview in the âLayoutâ tab of their ebook workflow. If you want more custom designs, this is possible but can require some knowledge of HTML and CCS. If you donât have that and donât want to hire someone, accept that your visual style for the ebook will be limited. (Just now, I tested the options for my ebook A Spell of Passion or Fear and found they didnât have any that matched the ancient world or steampunk setting. So Iâll continue with the formatting I used when the book was initially published through Smashwords, which D2D carried over.)
Here's Draft2Digitalâs guide for how to set your file up for a successful conversion.
The nicest thing about D2D is that they allow you to download the .epub file they generate and use it anywhere elseâe.g., if it fits Gumroad or Ko-fi's guidelines, you can upload the .epub there to sell.
But you donât need to upload files anywhere to sell your ebook widely. In D2Dâs publishing workflow, you can just check the boxes for where you want your book distributed and it will send the files and metadata for you. This means you donât need to set up separate accounts for the Barnes and Noble Nook store, the Apple Books store, or Kobo. It saves a lot of time, in exchange for a small percentage of your earnings. For example, the royalty rate on a book published through Draft2Digital and purchased in the Nook store is 60%; if you'd gone directly with Barnes and Noble Press, youâd have earned a 70% royalty. But youâd also have spent the time setting up a Barnes and Noble Press account, learning their formatting guidelines, and uploading the book. This may be worth it if you enjoy the process and/or make a lot of sales to Nook readers. For many authors, avoiding those additional steps is worth 10%.
In terms of earnings per sale, your favorite author is probably happiest when you buy their book from Smashwords (if itâs not available through direct ecommerce). But letâs be real: weâre never unhappy when you buy one of our books anywhere. Thank you!
At the beginning of 2026, the Smashwords store dropped its royalties for the first time in decades. It also simplified its payment formulaâyou used to earn a slightly different amount depending on how many other ebooks a reader was buying at the same time. But where Smashwordsâ royalty rate used to be over 80%, itâs now 75% for books $2.99 and up, and just 40% for books under $2.99. Thatâs 5% higher than Amazon in both cases, but itâs a big pay cut for the under-$2.99 category. Worse, this cut may apply to books that are priced under $2.99 because they use a coupon code or are part of Smashwordsâ twice-annual sitewide sales. Those sales have been a great opportunity for readers to stretch their book-buying budgets and discover new authors, but Iâm not sure how much theyâll be used if they come with a sharp pay cut. Weâll find out in June or July 2026, I guess.
Draft2Digital pays monthly whenever your accumulated balance is over $10.00. Payments for Smashwords go into your balance right away; books purchased at other stores sometimes take another month or two to arrive.
As a reader, I like the flexibility of file format options offered through Draft2Digital and Smashwords. I sometimes read on my phone and I hate downloading apps, so the Smashwordsâ âread onlineâ option is fantastic for me.
Smashwords also has fairly open content guidelines, including for âtabooâ erotic content, which has a particular label so itâs easy for readers to avoid (or find) if thatâs their preference. I donât want to digress too much here, but: many readers find fiction a safe space to engage with intense and even frightening ideasâsometimes to process past experiences or achieve catharsis, sometimes for no reason they can nameâand they deserve ways to access that writing, just as writers should be able to share it. There are stories out there I would prefer not to read myself, or even to think about much. Which is why I want them to be well-labeled, easy for their fans to find, easy for me to skip, and furthermore for that labeling to imply no judgment or penalty for the author. Maybe thatâs utopian of me.
A last word on Draft2Digital: They also offer print books. However, itâs still early days for that service, and some authors report delays and confusion. Most authors will be happy with more established print-on demand-publishers, discussed later in this article.
(If you'd like to give Draft2Digital a try after reading this post, I would be grateful if you use this referral link. It doesn't cost you anything to set up an account or publish through D2D, which is paid by a share of the royalties you earn. If, after using the referral link, you publish a book and sell copies over the next two years, Draft2Digital will credit me a portion of their earnings as thanks for spreading the word about them.)
Amazon: Thankfully not the only game in town, unless you make it yours
Itâs big and I donât expect itâs going anywhere. Itâs so big that for some authors, itâs the only game in town: they go âKindle exclusive.â At the cost of being able to distribute their books anywhere else, this has two benefits: one, admittedly itâs less work to upload just to Kindle rather than both Kindle and Draft2Digital.
The second benefit is that exclusivity to Amazon is required to join KDP Select (KDP = Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazonâs self-publishing arm). This program gives you some promotion options and, most importantly, makes your book part of the Kindle Unlimited subscription program. KU authors earn money based on number of pages read by subscribers. It's not as much as you'd earn in royalties selling the book, but you do reach a wide audience with the voracious KU readers.
KDP Select requires you to let Amazon, and only Amazon, publish your ebook for 90 days. Print books can be available elsewhere. This period renews automatically if a box is checked, but you can un-check the renewal option box at any point and wait for the current 90-day period to expire. I know a number of authors and some small presses who use KU for the first 90 days to reach those readers, then leave the program and publish wide with Draft2Digital or other distributors. Their ebook remains available on Amazon, just not in Kindle Unlimited.
In fact, thatâs the process Iâm using on a novella Iâm releasing in March:
Since I talked a lot in my previous post about trouble selling erotic ebooks on many platforms, I should talk briefly about Amazonâs content guidelines. The ones Iâm most concerned with refer to erotic contentâsome material that would be allowed in the âthrillerâ or âfantasyâ genres, for example, is not allowed in erotica. Basically, you can depict it, but god forbid itâs adjacent to getting someone off. This is Reddit's best knowledge of the current guidelines. Amazon is not very explicit, so this is built on guesswork. Also, it's a big site. Enforcement is spotty.
In addition to those content guidelines, authors in any genre may have books unpublished and even get banned from Amazon if enough readers complain they've provided a "poor reading experience.â That can include misleading marketing, bad formatting, or excessive grammatical errors that make the story unreadable (or just a few typos and a very complainy customer). There are occasionally other issues, such as apparent copyright infringement, that can lead to accounts being closed. If you are a member of the Authors Guild, they may be able to help you challenge wrongful account terminations (they can also help you issue takedowns of anyone pirating your own work).
The idea of losing your ability to sell on Amazon because youâve made a badly formatted ebook sounds pretty scary. I will say, I have found Amazonâs formatting much easier to manage than the Smashwords Meatgrinder. It is also much easier to check, with a preview made available right on the KDP page within minutes of you uploading the manuscript. Fixing issues, once youâve spotted them, can take some trial and errorâoften Iâve found the fault is a hidden bit of formatting in the storyâs text file. (There are services you can hire if you want to completely avoid the trial and error process, especially for longer or more complex works; I've done some such work and might hang my shingle out again, and there are people with a lot of expertise who can manage image-heavy files, complicated line breaks and indents for poetry, and so on.)
Because Amazon is massive, arbitrary, and difficult to fight, I don't recommend authors rely on it as their single source of income, however tempting KU might be. At minimum, make sure to collect reader's email addresses (voluntarily, by putting a note at the end of your book offering them a free story when they sign up to your newsletter) so if you ever have to completely migrate platforms, you can shoot them an email telling them where to find you next.
However, because Amazon is so massive, itâs difficult for writers and readers to avoid entirely. I myself donât claim to. One feature many authors use is Amazonâs affiliate program, Amazon Associates. For readers, this doesnât change anything, except you may notice a string of identifying text at the end of our links to books on Amazon. (Hereâs an example, one of my links to one of my books. As of January 27, 2026, A Spell of Passion or Fear is the only one of my books I can make an affiliate link to; if this isnât a fluke, it seems erotica and erotic romance titles are now âexcluded from the Amazon Associates Program.â See my earlier point about Amazon being arbitrary and unreliable, etc.) If you buy a book after clicking this linkâyour purchase doesnât have to be the book whose link you clicked on, but any eligible product within the next 24 hours after clicking itâthe affiliate who made the link will receive a few cents from Amazon as a commission, at no additional cost to you. In fact, if thereâs a particular writer or small press you really want to support, a nice way to do that is to click through one of their links whenever you want to buy anything from Amazon.
Amazonâs royalty rates are fairly generous on books priced between $2.99 to $9.99, which receive 70%. But for ebooks under $2.99 or over $9.99, the royalty is only 35%. Also, authors new to Amazon are sometimes surprised by the length of time it takes to receive payments: KDP sends them 60 days after the month of the sale. So at the end of December, I received royalties on book sales made in October. This can work out to a nearly 90-day wait for sales made at the beginning of a month.
One more benefit of Amazon is its rates for print-on-demand paperbacks, which are some of the most inexpensive available, and of acceptable and increasingly good quality. Print-on-demand  (POD) is exactly what it sounds like: a reader orders a book and a copy is printed fresh off the machine. The author doesnât have to worry about managing inventory or paying upfront for bulk ordersâthough traditional âoffset printingâ is much cheaper per copy. For many authors, Amazon is a reasonable choice for POD both because of the price advantage and because a paperback can be easily set up with a few clicks alongside the Kindle ebook, all on the same website. However, royalties earned on âexpanded distributionâ of Kindle paperbacks are low. Iâll talk about two alternative POD companies Iâve used, Lulu and IngramSpark, later in this article.
Next, I want to talk about a platform that isnât for publishing books, but for selling them, because itâs set up as a response to many of Amazonâs flaws.
Bookshop.org: A happy alternative
Back in 2020, book lovers had some good news. Bookshop.org was established explicitly as an Amazon alternative for online book shopping, and better yet, it fights monopoly by donating 10% of each sale to local bookstores that are members of the ABA (American Bookseller Association). Bookstores can also set up direct sales pages on Bookshop.orgâbut you donât need to be a bookstore owner yourself to benefit from Bookshop.orgâs 10% affiliate fee.
Yes, 10%. Thatâs the highest affiliate share I know of (more than double Amazonâs 4.5% rate for books). Anyoneâwriters, small presses, book clubs, book reviewers, nonprofits, or individual bookloversâcan sign up to be a Bookshop.org affiliate and create a store page curating titles.
Hereâs my Bookshop.org affiliate shop. I âstockâ books Iâm published in, the New Smut Project anthologies, and some romance, erotic, and poetry titles Iâve enjoyed. My affiliate earnings, which are automatically paid when my balance gets over $20, are re-invested in my New Smut Project account to pay future anthology contributors and cover other expenses. Bookshop.org affiliates can also create links to books that arenât in there store (for example, hereâs an affiliate link to a book I recently enjoyed but havenât had time to add to my shelves).
As with Amazon affiliate commissions, the fee doesnât affect the price the reader pays for books. And as of January 27, 2026, erotica anthologies are still eligible for Bookshop.orgâs affiliate program, which is a major boost in their favor from my perspective. Â
For authors and publishers, the books sold through Bookshop.org donât earn the highest possible rate, because they go through distribution, which understandably costs money. As an example:
Paperback copies of Erato (printed by Amazonâs KDP) earn a 60% rate less print costs, or about $5.98 per book, when purchased on Amazon. When purchased anywhere else through wider distribution, they earn only 40% less print costs, or about $2.79. That includes books sold on Bookshop.org. But when a copy is sold through my Affiliate links to Bookshop.org, I also earn a 10% Â affiliate commission (about $1.60 in Eratoâs case). And that same amount goes to Bookshop.orgâs fund to donate to independent booksores, andnone of it goes to Jeff Bezos.
Bookshop.org also sells ebooks, and will be selling books distributed through Draft2Digital and IngramSpark in the near future. From my D2D account, I canât yet spot a distribution option to Bookshop.org, but Iâll be keeping an eye out.
Independent Bookstores
Having a Bookshop.org page is one way physical independent bookstores can stock titles virtually, expanding their âshelfâ space. Some larger and more established indie bookstores also sell books directly from their websites. And bookstores are often happy to make special orders of particular titles if a customer asks. Of course, thereâs the physical space in their stores too; many indie stores dedicate space for local or independent authors. However, thereâs never enough space for every author wanting to get in a bookstore, and some authors donât make the attempt.
While, for an indie author, selling your book through a bookstore might not earn you the highest possible royalty rate, it has many other benefits, including a sense of physical connection to the literary community. And buying from bookstores helps keep these physical communities and spaces alive. Most bookstores offer literary events and activities.
Bookstores may stock an indie authorâs books on commission from the author, or they may order copies of them through IngramSpark (especially when customers request special orders). Itâs customary to offer a 55% discount rate to bookstores, meaning the author receives 45% of the cover price less printing costs. Some self-published authors offer lower discounts, like 35%, which makes it unlikely bookstores will ever stock you, though they still may special order your book if a customer requests it. In all honesty, while I have a 55% discount rate for Cunning Linguists through IngramSpark, I may decrease the discount over time, since physical bookstores have not been a major distribution option for us.
Other Options for Print on Demand:
IngramSpark
So, speaking of IngramSpark: I started an account when I released Cunning Linguists, the most recent New Smut Project anthology. At the time, I either paid a $25 fee to set up the title or took advantage of a promotion that waived it, but nowadays publishing through IngramSpark is free. Ingram makes money off a portion of your book sales, just as Amazon KDP does. You can also can pay for their ebook conversion service (at $0.60 per page, which would be $240 for a 400-page book). Keep in mind you can get an .epub file from Draft2Digital for free, or format your own with a little courage and troubleshooting in software like Calibre (my choice)âbut if you donât have a lot of time or energy, or if your ebook has complex formatting, this looks like a reasonable rate. Still, you might want to select a freelancer you can interview in-person rather than paying a faceless conglomeration for the service. Â
My other expense publishing through IngramSpark was buying an ISBN, or International Standard Book Number. This string of numbers identifies your book in a particular formatâthe paperback and ebook each get their own ISBN. Draft2Digital will give you an ebook serial number for free, but that number identifies D2D as the publisher rather than you. Amazon will give you an ASIN, an identification unique to its website, also for free. Buying your own ISBN, though itâs an up-front expense, identifies you as the publisher of your own books. ISBNs are much cheaper in bulk, so I actually bought the 10-number package from Bowker for $295. I have not yet used all of them (keep in mind, if youâre also applying your own ISBN to ebooks, the 10-ISBN package covers 5 books; if youâre doing ebook, print, and hardcover, the 10-ISBN package covers a trilogy with one number left over, maybe for an omnibus edition).
You enter your ISBN, upload your book files (the formatting requirements, particularly for covers, are slightly different for IngramSpark than for KDP, but I donât recall this being nightmarish to navigate), and enter the metadataâauthor name, book description, genre categories/BISAC subject codesâand soon your book will be available on websites like Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, and for ordering by indie bookstores. Youâll earnâŚwell, if you have a 55% discount rate set, youâll be earning no more and possibly a bit less than if you want through Amazonâs expanded distribution options. But you can make a much more attractive offer to bookstores. And now IngramSpark offers an option that lets you earn more than you would through Amazon, while readers can pay less: authors and indie publishers can make direct ecommerce sales through their website. You have to do all of the marketing lift yourselfâso far as I can see, thereâs no IngramSpark storefront that readers can browse. But if a reader wants to buy a book and wants to support the author as much as possible, these direct sales links are good to have. (For example, hereâs the direct sales link for Cunning Linguists, with a $1 discount on the cover price, which earns me a few cents more per copy than sales on Amazon.)
IngramSpark paperbacks are a bit more expensive per copy to print than they would be through Amazon, though unlike Amazon they offer discounts on bulk orders. However, if youâre able to sell through several hundred copies at a time, and manage storage and transport for them, you may find a better deal through an offset printer who specializes in large-scale print orders.Â
The biggest downside of IngramSpark for me is that its sales reports are clunkyâand I say this as someone with only a single book out through them; if I had multiple titles to keep track of, Iâd be even more annoyed. Save the reports that IngramSpark emails you, because they are significantly easier to read than the ones you can generate on the website.
Additionally, Iâve consistently had trouble getting the cover art of Cunning Linguists to load on Bookshop.org. I sent a message to IngramSparkâs help center about this, but their FAQ warns that âPieces of information may appear, disappear, and reappear as [retailers] load the metadata feeds. We have no control over their process or how quickly they complete it.â
But even without a cover, readers have made multiple purchases of Cunning Linguists through my Bookshop.org affiliate links,so thank you all!
Lulu
The other POD publisher I regularly use is Lulu. In particular, I like to use Lulu for personal projects and giftsâfor instance, I made a collection of my late partnerâs science fiction stories and printed copies for their family. These are kept in âPrivate Accessâ and not made available in Luluâs online storefront or any other stores. (This is not something youâre able to do on Amazon; while you can print proof copies without publishing the book, the proofs now have a ribbon reading NOT FOR RESALE across the cover.)Â
In general, I find Amazon paperbacks have the advantage in pricing/earnings, and IngramSpark is better for wide distribution than Lulu. Lulu does have a browsable bookstore on its website, though Iâm not sure how many readers youâre likely to get this way. Content wise, Luluâs terms and conditions forbid âpornographyâ from being sold on its websiteâdefined as clearly as youâd expect, which is to say, not at all. There are erotica titles available in the store, and the store has an âexplicit contentâ filter, which seems to imply a distinction where some adult content is allowable, but I donât plan to spend my time setting up a title there to find out.
For a sense of how much more expensive Luluâs printing is than Amazonâs, both charging by the page:
The gift book I made is 147 pages long and author copies cost $5.44 each from Lulu (not counting shipping).
My omnibus paperback Soft, Sharp, and Tender is 221 pages long and author copies cost $3.50 each from Amazon (not counting shipping).
However, if you publish on Lulu, take advantage of their newsletter, which sends regular promotional emails. I receive coupons for 10% or even 20% off orders a few times a year. These coupons apply to private access titles as well as publicly available books.
And itâs worth acknowledging here that Luluâs higher prices likely reflect better ethics (in fact, theyâre a certified B Corporation, like Bookshop.org, with ratings on things like financial security for employees. Which is more than one might say for Amazon).
Other Affiliate Programs
Iâll wrap this long post up by briefly discussing other bookstores that offer affiliate programs, in addition to Bookshop.org and Amazon.
The Apple Services Promotion Partner Program includes a 7% commission on Apple Books purchases.
Kobo has an affiliate program through Rakuten that offers a 6% commission on ebooks and audiobooks.
Smashwords used to have an affiliate program, but ended it a few years ago.
Authors may find setting up these accounts a bit finicky, taking up time for uncertain earnings. However, once youâve got your affiliate codes, Draft2Digitalâs Books2Read links will make life easier: thereâs a page (the reasonably titled https://books2read.com/links/affiliate-codes/) where you can enter all your codes, then it automatically applies them when you generate each Universal Book Link.
Again, affiliate commissions earn authors and publishers a little extra money at no additional cost to the book buyer. If you see extra code at the end of a link to a book, this is often whatâs going on (the affiliate should also disclose that theyâre using affiliate links somewhere on their website or in their newsletter).
Thatâs the simple version
Well, this was a long post, and you may be feeling flatted by a barrage of information. At the same time, Iâm sure thereâs a lot I didnât get to! Please feel free to share your questions in the comments.
One thing I definitely didnât touch on (because I donât yet have much experience) is serial publication through platforms like Patreon or Ream. And I recently looked at Ko-fi, and learned the limits of their adult content guidelines for ebook sales, but I do have some ebooks up for sale there, in addition to being open to editing commissions (including developmental editing packages, which can include discussing your publication options for a particular story). The world of publishing is big and always changing, but this post catches the highlights of my own experience.
In the next (and probably final) installment of this series, Iâll talk about things readers can do that their favorite authors and small presses will appreciate.
If applicable, your next maintenance fee will be due on November 3, 2026.
Currently, your account has no published books. Accounts with no published books are not subject to maintenance fees. On the maintenance fee due date, your Account Status will change to "Non-Publishing Account" instead of being charged a maintenance fee. Should you wish to publish any books, a maintenance fee will be due at that time (and your maintenance fee due date will reset to one year out from when your fee was paid).
What if I donât want to be charged the maintenance fee?
If you do not want to pay your annual account maintenance fee, you may unpublish your books to delist them from distribution. Accounts with no titles in distribution (no active request to list at stores) are not subject to the maintenance fee.
I've seen people claim they've been charged already or are set to be despite having no books up anymore, but this changed for me on my page. So, hopefully that was an error and simply having an account will not incur fees... because they're not deleting accounts.
I can't find how to do that and emailing got me no response yet. Might eventually, as they're pretty busy right now (I wonder why) but I thought I'd throw this out there.
Cost of inflation aside, the draft2digital upload process is brilliant in comparison to Ingram Spark. It's intuitive, easy to follow, and lets you see the files in real-time instead of making you wait to see your physical proof. I also had a minor problem with something, and customer service got back to me within a few hours, not the literal weeks I've gotten used to with Ingram.
The cover it auto-generated from my ebook files was not the greatest, but if you're on a tight budget or unable to afford separate covers and wanted to do paperback, you could absolutely make it work with a little tweaking.
I had separate covers already because Ingram and Amazon require you to have PDF wraparounds (both different dimensions from each other), and while the Ingram one didn't work (Ingram formatting works literally nowhere, not even on Ingram đ), the Amazon wrap worked. There might be a sliiiight issue with the ISBN overlapping, but it was hard to tell on screen. I guess we'll see how it looks when the physical proof copy arrives.
So. Yeah. That was way less of a stressful experience.
And none of my files are being held captive! I can hit cancel at any moment without having to pay $25 to talk to a human to get my files pulled. Incredible... And if you're thinking to yourself, Joy, that sounds like the bare minimum of competency, I need you to know that after years of Ingram Spark, the bar for this kind of thing is so low it's in Hell.
Anyway. I'll post an update on print quality once the proof gets here.
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does anyone know of any good self-publishing sites similar to or better than draft2digital? D2D's recent fees have me reconsidering continuing on the platform but i'd like to avoid completing abandoning so many other sales channels if i'm able.
I just heard another writer trying to figure out which self-publishing route to take, and all I'll say is that I'm glad I found Draft2Digital. (More accurately, I'm grateful to my more knowledgeable writer friends who told me about it a couple years ago.) I don't even use the free services as much now that I've learned to do fancy formatting etc on my own, but it sure is nice that the option is there.
TL;DR: you upload a manuscript, they make it presentable and available everywhere from Amazon to your local bookstore, and they charge you zero dollars, only taking a cut of the profits they helped you make. A small cut.
They are run by Writer People who want to help other Writer People succeed, and it shows.
It's very homophobic that we're halfway through Pride Month and I've only made one book sale across all my platforms. If you're looking for queer and trans smut (especially in a fantasy setting), then look no further!
Cream and Sugar is 7k words of sweet heat MxTM smut and romance in a mythology setting.
Universal Books Link (Smashwords and Kobo)
Link to Itch.io listing
(Cream and Sugar will also be part of the Citrus Con Bundle next week on Itch!)
Springtime Sweetness is 8k words of high heat NBxM monsterfucking smut in a fantasy setting.
Universal Books Link (Smashwords and Kobo)
Link to Itch.io listing
The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall is a T4T Victorian vampire erotica novel with a transfemme protagonist.
Universal Books Link (Smashwords and Kobo)
Link to Itch.io listing
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