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All in all, you’re not going to have much luck trying to snoop out the best erotica markets in your dog-eared copy of Writer’s Market. The best bet for many of us has been to sell to as many anthologies as possible, whose calls are often mailed around through an incestuous network of writers and publishers. Get yourself published in a couple of online or print erotica magazines, like Scarlet Letters, Zaftig!, CleanSheets, or Libido, and tap into the network of writers there. Make a note to your publisher that you would like to be kept abreast (as it were) of submission calls. The good markets for erotica and sexuality are often good on one level and poor on another. An excellent place to be seen, or a venue that allows you to keep your rights will likely pay little to nothing. On the other hand, a gig that'll pad your wallet can often strip you of your rights, or be the kind of place you don't want to include in your clips or even have your name seen in. If you really want the best of all worlds, in my advice, keep your day job, or grab a job in the publishing end. Balance your erotica freelance work with non-adult writing. When erotica and sexuality writing freelance are not your central income, it will open you up to taking only the best opportunities and allow you to build your career slow and steady. In time, when you hone your craft and choose where you publish carefully, you will find that the better opportunities open themselves up to you, both in terms of income, quality of publication and your own professional reputation.
Online Markets
Good Erotica Presses and Publishers
Good Current/Annual Anthologies To Be Seen In
Writer Resources
Want a taste of what it's like in a mainstream pornography market? At Penthouse, though they do not buy much material freelance, what they do buy, they pay very handsomely for. For instance, if you can write up to 2000 words on an incredible feat, endeavor or little-known fact about the penis, you could net $1,500. Better still, think of some feature or interview they just have to have and you are looking at up to 5K. For fiction, don't call them, they'll call you. Of course, it still pays better in mainstream to be a centerfold — and you can save on toner cartridges. Tell us what you think. Email talkback@pifmagazine.com Heather Corinna is the founder, editor and publisher of Scarlet Letters: The Journal of Femmerotica and the teen sex education resources Pink Slip and Boyfriend!. Her work in sexuality and erotica has appeared in numerous venues, including Maxi, Orato, LeisureSuit.Net, Siren and CleanSheets. She has been applauded in the media at Playboy Online, AVN, the San Francisco Weekly, the Boston Phoenix, EstroClick, The Minneapolis City Pages, Hip Mama, and other publications. She was an honored speaker on freedom of speech and erotica with Marianna Beck for the Illinois Library Association last year, and her work can currently be seen in the print anthologies The Adventures of Food, Viscera, and the upcoming Aqua Erotica. |
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