A Tale of Three #Taboo #Erotica #Anthologies, or Testing the KU Waters in 2019

In case you haven't heard about Lexi Wood, she's the sock puppet who lives in my apartment and writes taboo erotica for me to publish.

Two years ago, Lexi wrote 6 brand new, never-before-published stories about stepdaddies and stepdaughters doing the nasty. Usually I publish Lexi's stories individually, but since I had 6 in my possession that had not yet been published wide, I figured I'd bundle them together and introduce them to Kindle Unlimited for 90 days.

I'm not sure why I made the decision to put New Taboo Erotica in Kindle Unlimited. I almost never put anything in KU, seeing as I have a monstrous fear of commitment--so much so that being exclusive to one retailer even for 90 days makes me jittery.

But I made the decision, and, boy, was I glad!

As an author, as a business, as an author-business, I generally rely on a long tail of sales to earn my income. We're talking mediocre-to-poor sales spread out over years, even decades. That's how I operate. I view every book I write as a long-term investment.  I don't expect it to earn its keep within a week of being published, or even within the initial 90 days. If I had a baby (highly unlikely), I wouldn't expect it to walk and talk at 3 months. I view my books in the same way.  At 90 days, they're still infants.

That's how I operate. I don't have monumental expectations of anything I publish.

So when New Taboo Erotica brought home the bacon, I was blown away.  Truly.  I don't think any other book I've written has paid my rent in the first month of its existence. I know there are a lot of authors who rely on new release income spikes, but I'm not one of them.

New Taboo Erotica felt like a boon, and the results came as a big surprise.

Still, by the end of that 90 day exclusivity period, pagereads had trickled off, so I took the book out of KU and sent it out into the wilds of the big wide world.

The next year, I decided I would do it all over again.

I didn't see any reason why lightning wouldn't strike twice.

Except that Amazon's algorithms seem to change on almost a weekly basis, and you can never expect the same thing to work from month to month, much less year to year...

At any rate, I instructed Lexi to write 6 more brand new taboo erotica stories.  I bundled them together, called them New Taboo Smut, and published them into KU last winter.

It was a total flop.

I'd tried to replicate my initial success using the same steps, the same template, the same theme, the same author... and the result was utter and dismal failure.

What a let-down.

So why on earth would I try it again this year?

Well, I didn't actually plan this.  I'll start by saying that.

November was National Novel Writing Month. I planned to... you know... work on a novel. But then my grandmother died, and I was still reeling from the tragic death of my cousin last summer, and grief sent me spiraling.

Most unexpectedly, it was Lexi who saved me.  She took over, planting herself at my computer and spewing out story after nasty, taboo story.  She was uncontrollable! She'd finish one story and immediately start on the next.  She'd have two on the go simultaneously.  It was wild.

What we ended up with were 6 brand new taboo erotica stories. And these ones were themed: sex-with-an-ex. How can a stepfather and stepdaughter also be exes?  Well, you'll obviously have to read these six stories to find out.

With these 6 previously unpublished stories at my disposal, and at the same time of year I'd published New Taboo Erotica and New Taboo Smut, it seemed only natural to continue my KU experiment.  Well, it wasn't an experiment the first two times, but it is now.  As much as I distrust and dislike KU, curiosity got the best of me.  I NEED to find out what will happen in 2019, on my third attempt to publish a bundle of 6 new taboo erotica stories by Lexi Wood.

The book is called Taboo Sex with an Ex.  Will it be a huge success?  I doubt it.  Will it be a dismal failure?  Probably!  Don't you love my optimism?  Hey, I'm a realist.  Everything seems to be tanking these days.

But I'm giving Taboo Sex with an Ex the opportunity to succeed in its initial 90 days.  Lexi's stories are scorching, they really are.  She writes dirty stuff.

If you're into dirty stuff--especially dirty stuff with a daddy fetish and a focus on the tension that exists between ex-lovers--you're going to want to read this collection. And I don't just say that because I want your sweet, sweet KU pagereads... although that's definitely part of it. These stories deserve to be read. They're trash in the best sense of the word.  They're filthy, forbidden garbage stories that will get you off just like they got me through a period of intense grief.

They're just that good.

Am I skewing the results of my KU experiment by asking you to read Taboo Sex with an Ex? Maybe. But it doesn't matter. This isn't real science. It's just me and Lexi, earning a living with our sex writings.

Read it Taboo Sex with an Ex today:

Taboo Sex with an Ex
6 Explicit Erotica Stories
By Lexi Wood

These girls love taboo sex so much they just keep coming back for more… even though they know they shouldn’t… even though they said they wouldn’t! In this mouth-watering collection of sinful smut, six young women return to strictly forbidden men to fill their needs as only the man of the house can. They shouldn’t have done it in the first time. They shouldn’t come back for seconds. But here they are, pretty and purring and ready for more!

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MLW8Z3F?tag=dondes-20
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MLW8Z3F
CAN: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07MLW8Z3F
AUS: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07MLW8Z3F

Is my #erotica too #taboo for you?

These aren't steps. This isn't role play. It's actual incest erotica: fathers and daughter, brothers and sisters, cousins and twins.

Some readers have told me they can't do it, can't follow me there. I totally understand. Before I started writing taboo erotica, it squicked me really badly. I would see all those daddy/daughter stories at Smashwords and it literally turned my stomach. I'd click away from the page as fast as I could because the very idea made me physically ill.

Then Adam and Sheree came to me like a fever dream. They took over my life. They took control of my fingers. They typed their own trilogy: Adam and Sheree's Family Vacation, Family Business, and Family Christmas. (Also available from Amazon as the slightly tamer pseudo-incest trilogy: Adam and Sheree's Stepbrother Series)

I guess you could say Adam and Sheree opened the taboo floodgates.

What's the appeal of truly taboo erotica, beyond the titillation of that which is forbidden?

Well, for an author who's in it for the hustle, I'll tell you straight-up: incest erotica sells really well. It sells way better than nuanced literary erotica, that's for sure!

So, in the interest of making money, I've just released a new collection called Family Affairs Incest Erotica. It's comprised of all THREE of my Smut Smackdown stories. (Remember when Lexi challenged me to a contest to see which of us could out-incest the other? Those stories.)

Praise be to the Almighty Dollar!

I say that, but you know me well enough to realize I wouldn't write fiction that made me hate myself. So I guess it's not all about the money.

The truth is that I like these stories. I especially enjoyed writing the story Two Complete Strangers, which is about a father and daughter meeting for the first time as adults. And fucking at the top of a cliff. I got the idea for that one when I heard about a new opera being mounted (heh) based on the love affair Anais Nin had with her father.

Family Affairs Incest Erotica also includes the stories Spying on the Twins (about twins who fuck each other and then their cousin. on a beach.) and The Family Bed (about a girl who sleeps naked with her father and brother. sorry--this one's indoors).

You can get Family Affairs at Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/707945?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica

Also available from eXcitica: https://www.excitica.com/index.php/family-affairs-incest-erotica.html

Oh, and in case I haven't made it clear, I'll mention that all the characters in these stories are consenting adults. Well, except the dad and brother in The Family Bed. They are adults, but they're not exactly consenting. Because they're asleep.

Happy Reading!

Giselle

The Family Bed: Satisfying all your #Taboo #Erotica Needs!

It's Family Day Weekend!

And if you think I published my smutty story The Family Bed today in celebration of the long weekend... then you vastly overestimate my organizational skills. It's pure happenstance that I chose this weekend to release family sex erotica into the world of ebooks.

Actually, I meant to get this baby out there almost a year ago. It's the third story in my Smut Smackdown challenge--a competition between me and Lexi Wood to write the most incestuous taboo stories on the planet.

Pretty sure I've nailed it with The Family Bed.

It involves a girl, her best friend, her best friend's father and her best friend's brother. Three in the bed and the little one said, "Can't you count, Giselle? That's four people!"

Indeed it is. Four people, three of whom are related, two of whom are asleep. Now that's a party.

The Family Bed
Family Affairs Taboo Erotica
by Giselle Renarde

I’d never seen anything like the family bed where my friend Kit slept with her dad and her brother. Not only did they all sleep together—they slept in the nude! We’re talking about an adult brother and sister naked alongside their father, and they didn’t seem to think that was strange. And guess what? When I slept over, Kit expected me to get in bed with them! Well I did, but you won’t believe what happened under the covers!

As you might be aware, there aren't a lot of ebook retailers that sell incest erotica. So if you're looking for The Family Bed, you will find it at...

Excitica: http://www.excitica.com/index.php/the-family-bed.html
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/705058?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica

I should mention that Lexi has also released her third Smut Smackdown story, Taken by Vicky's Daddy ...and Mine!

You can find out more at her Dance for Daddy site, including a coupon to save $3 off the cover price at Smashwords: http://dancefordaddy.blogspot.ca/2017/02/taken-by-vickys-daddy-and-mine-taboo.html

It was all a big mistake. Vicky wasn’t home when I showed up, but her daddy sure was. To kill time, we watched a movie together. A really sexy movie. I couldn’t help myself. I snuck off to touch myself, but Vicky’s daddy caught me. He asked me if I’d ever made love to a man. I hadn’t, of course, and I knew I shouldn’t let my best friend’s father take me, but he was so handsome. How could I resist? The last thing I expected was for my own father to catch us in the act… and help Vicky’s daddy deflower me!

Smut Smackdown: Talk Dirty To Me, Daddy! vs. Two Complete Strangers

A couple weeks ago, Lexi Wood challenged me to a duel. If you don't know Lexi, she's the smut-writing sock puppet that lives in my apartment. She's pretty damn cocky, too. Apparently she thinks she's the superior smut-slinger.

We'll see about that!

She thinks that because she spends her whole life writing stepdaddy smut, she writes taboo erotica better. I guess she wasn't around in 2013, when I wrote my 100,000-word Adam and Sheree trilogy. No steps in that (unless you're reading the Amazon version, Adam and Sheree's Stepbrother Series). Just pure, unadulterated family sex.

So Lexi upped the stakes.

She challenged me to a family sex writing competition. No pseudo stuff. No steps.

Real. Family. Sex.

I'm not generally a competitive person, but Lexi gets me all riled up. So IT'S ON! Round One has begun!

Who can produce the dirtiest taboo tales? It's the Lexi vs. Giselle Smut Smackdown! We write 'em, you rate 'em.

Our first challengers are Lexi's Talk Dirty To Me, Daddy! and my book, Two Complete Strangers:

I know what you’re thinking: I had an affair with my father, so I must be cracked. But this man didn’t raise me. We were two complete strangers when we met at that seaside pub. There was an instant spark between us. He couldn’t resist his little girl, and I didn’t even try to resist him. Maybe it was sick and wrong and totally messed up… or maybe we’re meant for each other.

Buy it here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/618644?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Use Coupon Code KF54P to get Two Complete Strangers for only $0.99!
Coupon Expires: April 30, 2016


And here's the challenger:

Marissa makes a living out of talking dirty. Phone sex is her secret job. She does it late at night, after her father’s gone to bed. When one special caller gets her hot and bothered, she sneaks into Daddy’s bedroom to steal some late night loving. But wait… where’s Daddy? He’s not in bed. Where could he be? And how did Marissa’s caller manage to tap all her taboo desires?

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/618633?ref=GiselleRenardeErotica
Promotional price: $0.99 with Coupon Code: ML38R
Expires: April 30, 2016



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