I take pride in my work as a writer. I spend a lot of time crafting stories, editing them, polishing them, and making them the best possible stories they can be when it’s time to publish them. If that means I only come out with one or two books a year, then so be it.

In the /r/eroticauthors subreddit, one of the most common pieces of advice is to saturate the market: write a story, give it the quickest possible wash-and-brush-up, make a cover in Canva or using Amazon’s cover creator, publish it, and move on. And I suppose I could do this and put out one story a week at 99 cents (or 2.99 so I can include it in Kindle Unlimited). But writing a good story takes time. Editing it takes time. Finding beta readers really takes a lot of time. I don’t want to pump-and-dump stories; I want stories that make people feel things, and not just between their legs. I want them to enjoy the journey, get to know the characters, experience what they’re going through, and then they can get horny and masturbate while reading.

I have a total of 32 stories, books, and collections available for purchase (some under different pen names). With each one I spent time editing and improving it until I couldn’t find any way to make it better. Even in the case of Shell Game, which I was so sick of editing that I nearly abandoned it, I put in the work to make it a good book. It may not be perfect, and you may not like everything that happens in it, but I am proud of it.

I don’t think I’d be proud of much if I pump-and-dumped a story a week. Maybe I’d make more money, but at what cost? Besides, hitting it big (or even medium) is purely a matter of luck — you can write a hundred stories, market them hardcore, and still only have a few readers; however, if you write a book that catches the eye of (ugh) BookTok you’ll hit it big (or medium), at least for a little while.

The erotica market is saturated already. I’m not going to compromise my values to make the signal-to-noise ratio worse. When I publish something, you can bet that I’ve spent time polishing it. (Except for stuff I post on the blog; most of that is first drafts.) If you’re going to spend your money on my books, I want you to feel like you got your money’s worth, and little makes someone feel like they didn’t than a book that isn’t properly edited.