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Frank_Lee

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19 Jun 2015

Quote by GirlyWorld
Has anyone removed one or more of their stories here for sale on Amazon? I'm intending on writing / selling on Amazon, but I have some stories here that I would like to delete here and publish under another name on KDP. Anything TOS / legal-wise wrong with that?

Thanks,

GW.

Hi GW, if you don't mind another comment to add to what Nicola has said.... If you're planning to post something on Amazon that was already published here, then you're not likely to get as large a readership as you're used to here. Especially if you're going to use a new pen name and starting out completely fresh. Lush is an excellent place to build a readership, and you can certainly let your readers here know of your name change, but if they've already seen your work here then not many are likely to follow you to Amazon.

Your best bet is to publish something new, and then you can promote it with your readers and followers here. If you publish an ebook on Amazon, publishing some here for free at the same time is an excellent way to bring traffic to your Amazon page while your ebook is new. Strike while the iron's hot, as it were.

You can also think about submitting to an established erotica publisher (like Lush Publishing for example smile

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who will handle putting together your cover, editing and formatting your manuscript, and giving your title more exposure than you can on your own. A lot of people prefer the independence of self-publishing, but it's a tough slog out there on your own.

Whatever you decide to do, I hope it works out the way you hope.

11 Jun 2015

Quote by overmykneenow

Mirrorless does seem to be where the next big things are going to come from. For me they are an obvious step forward with the technology but you still can't stop people wanting to have an SLR to look like a "proper" photographer. That said, who's going to argue with someone carrying one of those gorgeous Leicas?

True. "Size matters" is a be-all, end-all concept for a lot of photographers. I'd love a Leica M camera, but ever since I started shooting with Fuji's X cameras I've lost a lot of my curiosity about others. Not that I wouldn't love to have a good full frame camera in the arsenal.

4 Jun 2015

Quote by nicola
Thanks Mr. Lee, I'll take a look.

I hope it's helpful. The reviews can get pretty technical, but you can just jump to the conclusion page and get the overall comments which can be more straight forward in a practical sense. Then once you choose a camera you can start shopping for accessories! smile

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You can also check here for some good ideas in regard to setting the camera up once you have it in hand. http://www.kenrockwell.com/

3 Jun 2015

The reviews and forums here are an excellent source for research. There are sample galleries with all the cameras reviewed, and reviews for many of the older models above are still online and allow you to compare how the technology and performance of various models have changed from one generation to another. At this point I'm pretty much a convert to the Fuji X series, but then I don't shoot a lot nature/landscapes, but shoot in low light a lot.

You might also want to look at micro 4/3 cameras. Panasonic and Olympus have some excellent cameras in this category.

http://www.dpreview.com/?utm_campaign=internal-link&utm_source=mainmenu&utm_medium=text&ref=mainmenu

25 May 2015

Everything

23 May 2015

Taking a bow and wishing you the best birthday in the cosmos. And next years will be even better smile

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18 May 2015

These look nice, although, if you don't mind my saying, just changing the background color for each one doesn't do enough to distinguish them. The silhouette and single color background tend to be easy to pass over, not as much there to catch the eye as there might be with a cover photo that shows a wider array of color as well as an image that captures a curious reader's attention. The series title is really good, and that alone should garner interest, but each part being a different story, why not give each one an image that draws more curiosity to what's inside the cover?

It's well worth setting up an acct on a site like DollarPhoto, where you can download photos for a very reasonable price and then use them hassle free as cover images. You can even download a low res comp for free just to experiment and try it on for size.

15 May 2015

Also...if you decide to make an excerpt available online (which is a good way to bring attention to your book), it would be much better to just put out an excerpt of the finished product rather than an earlier draft. If a reader sees your online excerpt, and then goes to check out your book and finds it to be noticeably different, even with a change in pov, etc, it's a misleading way of introducing them to your story. You can risk disappointing them out of the gate.

Good luck, and do please get in touch if you're thinking of submitting something to LP. We're always looking.

Speaking of which...why haven't you submitted anything, Metilda?

15 May 2015

Quote by stephanie

Would it be possible, Just Once, for somebody to mention my name without using the terms 'insane' 'Irish' and 'twat'?

JUST FUCKING ONCE!

xx SF

Oh you crazy celtic cunt, you.

But seriously...I may have a particular favorite, but it wouldn't be right not to acknowledge all the mods for all their time and efforts on behalf of this whole community. Youze all rock!

7 May 2015

15 Apr 2015

Quote by Buz
Earlier today, I posted very positive reviews for books by Metilda (Lillith Lo), Katherine Rollins and Frank Lee today on Amazon.

There are several other Lush authors posted through Lush Publishing on Amazon and I hope all you Lushites will check them out on Amazon and support them. If you get time to leave a great review for our fellow lush authors on Amazon that would sure be great. I've purchased a lot of Lush Publishing eBooks there and they really are hot reads.

That means a lot, Buz. To all of us. You represent the very best of what this site is all about. Thank you.

15 Apr 2015

Beautifully done cover, and what looks to be a very well written book. Here's wishing you the best of luck with it, Metilda.

11 Apr 2015

Quote by Tammy_Nguyen_77
I've done all the hard work. wrote the story, formatted it into an e-book, figured out how to get published on Amazon, found and joined all the erotica websites, got myself on Twitter and Facebook, gave away the free samples, how do I get people to click on that link. I'm not asking anyone to take out a 2nd mortgage most folks spend 3 times more than 2 bucks on lunch everyday. I've got two stories here with 40,000 views. I just need to figure out how to get people to take that last step across the finish line and click the download button.

Actually, with one of your ebooks presently showing a sales rank at the 200k range, it doesn't look like you're doing too badly if you look at the ranks of a lot of other erotica titles on Amazon. On FB, it helps to join a few of the erotic book fan groups where you can post ads/announcements of your titles. I know one author who does most of her posting early on Sunday mornings. She says this always stimulates sales. I haven't had as predictable experience, but then I'm not willing to get up that early. It's best to be consistent, though, so your name and titles become more and more familiar to more and more people.

Even more importantly...keep writing! There's nothing like putting out a new ebook to get fresh attention, and this helps bring new readers to the titles you've already published. Just keep at it.

It's tough for indie authors especially, but there are plenty of people who support them. It's worth trying to connect with a publisher, too, since having a publisher's imprint on your book never hurts. There's still a lot of self-promotion involved, but having that behind you is a good thing. It tells readers who don't know who you are that a publisher thought enough of your work to invest their resources into publishing it. Either way...with or without a publisher...hang in there for the long haul.

8 Apr 2015

Quote by sprite
Drool

You've been looking at those pix I sent you again, huh?

20 Mar 2015

Happy Birthday! May it rock!

11 Mar 2015

This one seems pretty damn irresistible

7 Mar 2015

Quote by prairiedogg

I understand your point, but the RRs are way too subjective and usually reflect the interests of the Mod who awards it, rather than a work which is technically superior. Just my opinion.

Great technique is not what makes a great story. It can even be a liability at times.

3 Mar 2015

It's called Queen of the Morons. sprite is the main character. She runs for president...and wins! Then she puts on this dominatrix get-up with a strap-on and walks into the House of Representatives with a flogger. I'm thinking it should go in the Love Stories category.

3 Mar 2015

Hearty congratulations to everyone who entered. This was a wonderful thing to see, and to see so many wonderful people be acknowledged. Youze all rock!

23 Feb 2015

Quote by Magical_felix

I went to your profile, scrolled down your list of poems and randomly clicked on two of them. I swear they were identical except one of them has words that rhyme with cock and the other has words that rhyme with dick. The comments you recieve on them, also interchangeable. Nothing specific or thought-out about them. Pure fluff.

Hickory dickery dock, come and suck my cock. <-- Poetry.

The self-important arrogance with which you've approached others in this conversation is beyond offensive, and ultimately negates the credibility of any argument that might've been slumbering beneath the surface of your naive diatribes. Like all the other sites Lush is so often compared with, this is an open writing site providing an outlet to amateurs and hobbyists, staffed by other amateurs and hobbyists. The work is most often roughly skilled in both fiction and poetry here. Obviously. It's not about being better or smarter than someone else. It's about entertainment and a bit of healthy social outreach. So dude, if you're going to go swimming in the ocean, you don't have any call to get pissed off because there are fish in the water.

If we could somehow unanimously determine the absolute worst poet or poem on Lush, could anyone please explain to me how they could possibly have done anyone any actual harm? The bulk of this conversation is ill-informed and soul destroying. Closing this thread would be a blessing, since with a viable solution at hand the point would appear moot.

23 Feb 2015

Quote by nicola
As a few have mentioned, this has drawn too much heat, unnecessarily.

We are going to change the site set up, so that stories only, will be loaded by default on the front page (this is a story site, the bias is being taken away, and that's not ok). Poems will have their own separate tab, so that those who wish to read only poetry, can click the link.

Members will be able to (coding time permitting) choose in their settings, which loads by default on the main page.

I can't think of a better solution. I do enjoy reading quality poetry, however there has to be a balance.

This seems as good a solution as could be had to a problem that seems to be blown out of proportion in Olympian quantities.

22 Feb 2015

definitely not enough

27 Jan 2015

Quote by stephanie

I ALWAYS thought my 'A SEXUAL AWAKENING' series deserved an RR at LEAST!!!

(NO accounting for TASTE!!!)

xx SF

This is your best. https://www.lushstories.com/stories/love-poems/how-i-loved-you-then.aspx And to be honest, for my money, it's ten times better than Leningrad. Pretty blue thumb, no EP, which it deserves. This is poetry.

26 Jan 2015

Quote by kornslayer1
It seems way too good to be true. To win an EP by accident? I find impossible to get even an RR. Granted I don't write poetry except the two I have posted, but still, sounds way too good to be true. The mods seems rather stingy about giving them out to whom don't already have a bunch. Is it easier to actually win an EP overall? Either way, I don't buy it. I'm sure it'll work for someone else though. I'd like to know how to get an RR by accident or just how to get one the normal way. After that, maybe I'll worry about an EP.

As principessa said, it's just Stephanie's way of saying he's surprised and showing his appreciation over the award. But yeah...it kind of is an accident. Always. RRs, EPs, prizes, publications...it always boils down to the same thing: catching the right mod/editor at the right time in the right mood with the right thing. That's as magical as it gets. Of course, accidents like this are much likelier to happen when a writer has done a certain amount of tedious homework. Stephanie is being very self deprecating about his writing, and yeah, Leningrad's structure is all over the place and even random through most of it. But it won an award because it's got "that thing" that rises above technical shit that means very little in the long run. Stephanie may be a lazy poet, as I am too, but he has a keen ear for the inherent cadence of the English language. Maybe it doesn't hurt to come from a place where people like James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Yeats, et al, are the major rock stars. The other thing principessa said that pretty much nails everything anyone needs to know about writing is that if you sit down consciously to write something award winning it's probably not gonna happen. It happens when you forget all the peripheral bullshit and just focus on the story, the characters, the heart, the music of the language...poetry or prose. So yeah, it pretty much does happen by accident...and it happens when you're paying attention to something else.

15 Jan 2015

Hey Buz...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And wishing you the best.

Hey, aren't you still hung over from New Years?

12 Jan 2015

Quote by dpw

I hate writing anyway. It reminds me of homework.

Me, too! Writing sucks!

11 Jan 2015

Quote by DanielleX

I'm going to need to do some extra research on this. I can't say I ever came across this example before.

See, I don't see brown and leather as the same thing, grammatically. Brown is simply describing the sofa in terms of its colour. Like Hereford I don't see leather as a description but an intrinsic part of the sofa. I guess we could go round in circles but I'll defer to your wisdom

Danny x

Now I feel bad. The thing that's too easy to forget in conversations like this is that being able to parse a sentence isn't even in the same league as making the language sing or reveal pictures or feelings that speak to a stranger. This is the kind of stuff that intimidates most people about writing.

11 Jan 2015

Quote by DanielleX
I know you can go and find places on the internet where it says leather is an adjective, but I'm not convinced. Here's why:

According to the dictionaries I used for Uni, which is the great big Oxford dictionary in two volumes that weigh about 5kg each, leather can either be a substantive (which is a posh word for a noun) or a verb.

Nowhere does it say it's an adjective.

The way I see it, in the case of leather sofa or leather handbag leather is part of the essence of the thing. I get where people are coming from, so you start off with sofa, which is definitely a noun, so you're assuming that when you stick leather in the front it must be an adjective.

Imagine instead of a sofa it's a cow. What sort of cow? An Hereford cow. Hereford isn't an adjective is it. Leather is performing the same function grammatically as Hereford. A leather sofa is a sofa made of leather, a Hereford cow is a cow from Hereford.

I have always used the OED as well. Anyone who loves language owes it to themselves to drink straight from the fountain, as it were. And I couldn't agree more that Google is not the best way to confirm style/mechanics questions. The information is often in conflict, and sometimes just totally out of left field.

I just go by the books and style guides I use for teaching this material and also when I'm editing for ebook publishers. If you look at your two versions of the sentence - brown vs leather sofa - the grammatical function of brown and leather is the same. The only possible function either word is performing is to modify sofa. And yes, Hereford would be an adjective in that context.

The OED is amazing, and will give you the entire etymology of a given word, but it's still a dictionary and not a grammar guide.

11 Jan 2015

Leather, as in "leather sofa" is most clearly an adjective. Yes, it does say what the sofa is just as "hot coffee" says what the coffee is. Words routinely change forms according to the context in which they're used.

The original sentence is a run-on. It's three perfectly good statements separated by semicolons which should be changed to periods.

11 Jan 2015

not enough