A how-to book for writers eager to break into one of today's hottest, most lucrative, and most receptive free-lance markets--the world of erotic fiction and nonfiction.

From bookstores to the Internet to Susie Bright's own tremendous success with the BEST AMERICAN EROTICA series, we are clearly reading and writing erotica more than ever. Now Susie Bright shows readers how to heat up sex scenes in everything from traditional novels and romances to science fiction and horror. She guides aspiring writers in reading erotica to discover the elements and styles that work. Then she walks them through the writing process: how to get hot ideas, devise steamy plots, use language like a pro and bring the story to a memorable climax. Each chapter features writing exercises and suggestions for non-writing activities that will galvanise the imagination and flatten any hurdle. Drawing on her own experiences, Bright explains how to find an agent, work with an editor, choose a publishing company and sell the work.

Fifty Shades of Grey has made Erotica the genre of the moment and thousands of creative writers will be aspiring to become the next E L James. This book is for them.

Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.

If you'd like to write erotica but struggle with knowing where to start, this book is for you. Do you have a talent for writing and a steamy imagination that you're ready to explore? Romance and erotica writers are carving out a whole new career based on self-publishing, taking their slice of an industry worth billions of dollars. Have you ever thought you might join them? Whether you want to write for pocket-money or more, How to Write Erotica is a great guide to getting started. Calista Foxton is a new erotic fiction writer. This book is a record of all the things she wishes she'd known at the beginning. From how to select your market to promoting your story, Calista walks you through every step of the way with her personal insight and plenty of practical tips that any budding author can learn from. How to Write Erotica includes choosing your kinks, avoiding procrastination, structuring your story, creating a cover, publishing your first e-book and a whole lot more. There are readers waiting for the story you're about to write. If you need a little gentle encouragement and lots of hints on starting out on the road to being the next E L James, this book is for you. Why not read and get started right away?

Erotic novels are more than a string of sexual scenes, they need a plot, characters and a variety of sexual encounters. This book offers realistic encouragement and tips from top-selling authors and explains how to get started, develop the plot and characters and present your work for publication.

Whether you want to write a short love scene or a complete erotic novel, every writer will find the advice Derek Parker gives indispensable. He covers language, plot, how explicit text should be and gives numerous quotations which demonstrate his points. He covers eroticism in novels and poetry. In addition he addresses the practicalities of finding a publisher, marketing work and the pros and cons of using an agent.