Eroticon
– facts, figures and stats!
Some
more interesting facts from Eroticon UK that I attended recently:
- Blog posts with good titles or
opening sentences will draw the reader in, so hopefully this worked!
- Tweets with photos have a much
higher click through rate! (note to self – must tweet more)
- Naked male flesh on the cover sells
better (at least on MM books but I suspect it is true of other erotic
romance books too)
- Exercise is proven to be far more
effective than Viagra within three months (they didn’t say what type of
exercise though!)
- Facebook is the biggest ‘outer’
of people wishing to keep their pen name private for whatever reason
- Most people will read a blog on
their phone.
- 1/3 of woman in the UK aged 35-65
are incontinent (if you pee when you sneeze this counts – so I am one of
them!!) and 85% of whom can be cured with 5mins of physio – must try
pelvic floor exercises)
- UK obscenity laws makes it
illegal to write (even in private emails or texts) about various items
including gags where the person cannot withdraw consent. Considering what
I activities I write about (as do many authors who write BDSM stories)
I’ll be writing my next blog from prison…..
- The end of a blog is a good place
to get the reader to engage with something else, eg, a link to something
else like a new release, or leave them wanting more, eg, a follow up
report or a good excerpt and they want to buy the book.
- Female readers of gay stories get
upset if condoms are not used but male readers wonder why it is necessary!
- An average length for blog posts
is 500-800 words but there’s no reason you can’t have shorter or longer
post every now and then.
- Gay books that sell under 1,000
in the first two years are low selling, 1-5,000 are mid selling and over
that is high selling.
Bearing
in mind the latter and considering whether those figures can be transferred to
other genres here are some stats relating to my books:
Submissive Training has sold over 10k and the
full two years of sales have not yet been received! So, by far this is my
biggest seller. (I still think people are expecting a training manual!)
The Submission Challenge was close to passing into
high selling after two years having reached 4,700 sales.
Just Good Friends was just over 1,000 at 2
years, so just into the mid selling range.
Friendly Seduction was under 1k. (Shame
because this was my favourite to write).
None
of my other books has been out for two years yet but The Sub Who Switched, Wife
for Three and Retraining the Dom
have all sold over 1,000 already.
In
the light of the earlier bullet points I added this pic for the naked male flesh! This post is now 512 words and if anyone
is interested in buying any of these good selling books they are all available
on the following links!!
Jen
Very interesting facts - you obviously took way more notes than me, lol! Phenomenal stats on your own sales - I aspire to get figures like that! :)
ReplyDeleteHaha! We all take down the facts that interest us the most. You'll get there - one day!
DeleteA lot of very interesting facts!! I'm glad you had a great time at the conference you sure did take a lot of good notes!!
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