Did he accidentally turn off voting and commenting?
I have the same issue. It works in Firefox, but not IE.
Gav disabled right clicking on a lot of the site, to help prevent interweb thieves from stealing people's stories / images. It is probably linked to that in some way.
Worth it for a bit of fun / titillation, as a writing exercise and to enjoy the feedback and social interaction, sure.
For financial gain? To be perfectly frank, 99% of people will never make a dime from their erotica writing - not here, or anywhere else.
We shelved our ebook publishing section, because even after publishing 30+ erotic ebooks, our revenue didn't even reach $50 most months - even with the site's backing and all the traffic it gets.
The trouble is, every man and his dog, thinks writing erotica is easy, and Amazon is awash with hundreds of thousands of (primarily dross) titles. Unless you are an incredibly gifted marketer, you are going to struggle getting your name out there.
If you're looking to make money from your writing, I'd suggest you'd be better off getting qualified, then going into copywriting, journalism or editing.
You do of course hear of the odd success story, but most of the people I know who've made any kind of decent money from writing erotica, started churning out ebooks 5-10 years ago, when it was all rather novel.
What are you looking to achieve? A side income? Career in writing?
Great analogy latecomer, spot on.
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