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Are you self-published or trad-published? How's it going?

Self-published! I have the impression that the traditionally published erotica market has almost disappeared these days. While some of my stories are more like erotic romances, they feel a bit too steamy for romance to me, and the happy ending isn't always certain to be forever, so I don't rate my chances in the trad romance market.

But I'm writing what I enjoy and have had some success this year at staring for find 
 >my market.

Getting COVID and not really recovering even to my normal sick sick kind of stalled my initial attempts to launch something. That and I struggled to connect with readers when I only had one story out. Having gone from moderately-well-networked under my other pen name to co.pletely unknown, I floundered a bit.

But since working on things properly this year and moving to Madtodon, things have really picked up!

While my number of readers is still small, they're so lovely and>